Complete
00:00:00
1 8 10 13 17 21 24 2 18 3 12 11 4 16 22 14 5 9 20 19 6 15 7 23
  1. 1a Doing nothing and hoping for the best — being Glenn etc (anag) (6,7)
  2. 8a Lockjaw (7)
  3. 9a Australian operatic soprano, d. 1931 (5)
  4. 10a Kind (4)
  5. 11a Punctuation mark (4,4)
  6. 13a Container used in lubricating machinery (6)
  7. 14a Lingerie — is nude (anag) (6)
  8. 17a Stand in (8)
  9. 19a Experts (4)
  10. 21a Nigerian currency unit (5)
  11. 22a Improving trend (7)
  12. 24a Scottish breed of cattle (8,5)
  13. 1d Cricket club (3)
  14. 2d One regarded as sure to succeed in some field (7)
  15. 3d Departed (4)
  16. 4d Big meal (slang) (4-2)
  17. 5d Playing for stakes (8)
  18. 6d Brilliant success (5)
  19. 7d Austere monks taking a vow of silence (9)
  20. 10d Welsh national park (9)
  21. 12d Writer of light romantic fiction, Princess Diana's stepgrand­mother, d. 2000 (8)
  22. 15d Moving slowly and carefully (7)
  23. 16d Accept as true without proof (6)
  24. 18d Elegance (5)
  25. 20d The Orient (4)
  26. 23d Hydrogen, for example (3)