Not too difficult, solving time 16 mins
* = anagram < = reversed
ACROSS
6 BULL(y) y = yen (Japanese currency)
7 RINGO STA RR (Organist)* bishop = RR (Right Reverend) The Beatles’ drummer
10 siDE CIDER
11 W HAMMY
12 RA (NDO) LPH (Don)*
13 TODDLE Sweeney “Todd’ll” ie Todd will
15 STICK-IN-THE-MUD (him cutest kind)*
18 Robinson CRUSOE “crew so”
19 STE (A DI) ER
22 EL PASO (a slope)*
24 UNCLE AR(m)
25 BELL “Belle” WET HER
26 GOO F
DOWN
1 FUNDRAISER (Nude friars)*
2 PLAC(e) ID Di<
3 BRIDAL “Bridle”
4 DOGWATCH (What cd go)* watch on board ship at certain hours
5 D RUM Refers to Ringo
8 NORTH AND SOUTH 19th century novel by Elizabeth Gaskell and cockney rhyming slang for ‘mouth’ = trap
9 TSARDOM cf stardom
14 LADIES ROOM (admires loo)*
16 IN ST ALL
17 KEEL OVER which in cryptic terms could be LEEK (23) going upwards
20 ESCORT (corset)*
21 DR (rd<) EDGE
23 (s) LEEK