The Sunday Crossword No 3255, Sunday 21 May 2023

ACROSS

1   Gets around senior journalist's ways of working (10) PROCEDURES {PROC{ED}URES}

6   It brought back very loud disagreement (4) TIFF {IT<=}{FF}

9   Character in La Belle et la Bête? (10) CIRCUMFLEX [T] Semi&lit

10 Fabulous captain seeing portent heading west (4) NEMO<=

11 Elder recites awfully locally sourced food? (3,9) RED LEICESTER*

15 Duck without much flesh in coating of rillettes in French city (7) ORLEANS {O}{R{LEAN}i...eS}

16 Rodents: those who fetch and carry, we're told (7) GOPHERS (~gofers)

17 Slightly edited thesis describing king's sculpture (3,4) THE KISS {THE{K}SIS*}

19 Perhaps the army chaplain delivers this? (7) SERVICE [C&DD]

20 Atingle, seeing French birds (12) GREENFINCHES*

23 Everyman's heading to find dingy venue where sinful behaviour occurred (4) EDEN {Ev...n}{DEN}

24 Start to battle cloud storage issue: that's an idea (10) BRAINCHILD {Ba...e}{RAIN}{CHILD}

25 Cinéaste describes this direction (4) EAST [T]

26 Colonels' superiors tidied up debris surrounding Latvian capital (10) BRIGADIERS {B{RIGA}DIERS*}

DOWN

1   Speed of some spaceships (4) PACE [T]

2   Announced time for you and me (4) OURS (~hours)

3   Reckoning mountaineer will flail about (11) ENUMERATION*

4   Emerges and ... decreases? (7) UNFOLDS [DD]

5   Making plane when night approaches (7) EVENING [DD]

7   Regrettably intermixes as a last resort (2,8) IN EXTREMIS*

8   Flowery language suggesting waves (10) FLOURISHES [DD]

12 Felt professional (11) EXPERIENCED [DD]

13 Badly upset rogue state's inhabitants (10) PORTUGUESE*

14 Cold weather curtailed small elves' dancing in type of clothing for summer (10) SLEEVELESS {SLEEt}{S+ELVES}*

18 Subversive spoon? (7) STIRRER [DD]

19 Plundering coarse cloth (7) SACKING [DD]

21 Sent up Arab leader's old poem (4) RIME<=

22 Primarily inauspicious day, especially senatorially! (4) IDES Acrostic &lit

Reference List

Senior journalist = ED, Very Loud = FF, King = K, Small = S