March 2002 - 15 x 15 Cryptic Crossword

Clues - Across

1. Beach cover when you've nothing on (4)
3. Being virtuous he gets two sweetmeats (5,5)
10. Giant fish, note, comes to an Italian city (not capital)... (9)
11. ... a nameless giant reared in Siberian forest (5)
12. The high life Tom is prepared to stay up late for (5,2,3,5)
13. Italian flower with top cut off is sort of candytuft maybe (6)
14. Lasting find in Tintagel on geological dig (7)
17. Frenchmen written about by the Brontes (7)
19. Strange hope, to be a goddess (6)
21. Lacking social position, despite that (15)
23. In self-examination, about to reveal inner personality (5)
24. White, in second class, being provocative? (9)
25. Stands down after standing successfully? (5,1,4)
26. Cut and come again fruitlessly (4)

Clues - Down

1. Foot for a footnote (6)
2. Aircraft the Spanish major and I clear to go up (9)
4. Leisure trips drain the income (7)
5. Crisis about Switzerland getting foreign money (7
6. Leave town as ruling parties sometimes do (2,2,3,7)
7. Architectural highlight (5)
8. Some time on a starchy food, but not nowadays (5,3)
9. Time of year when the roads easily become chaotic (6,8)
15. Be let out, rarely, after one's been imprisoned here (9)
16. A German league worker, rich (8)
18. Divisions where many a man's taken in by senior NCOs (7)
19. A bone head everyone backed (7)
20. Container for a type of food prepared in layers (3-3)
22. Cheat won at cards (5)