DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
6 Administrative body put writer in position (5,9) 9 Hostility shown by furious musician not in charge (6) 10 Weed garden in U.S. naval establishment (8) 11 Unwanted ads and letters sent by boat from Shanghai? (4,4) 13 Not much pressure around Easter, so they say (6) 15 Anchorage here regrettably keeps away beginners (6) 17 Amazing, sumptuous unfinished material (6) 19 In sculpture, Geoffrey is represented, not Eros (6) 20 Shocking information about a married American (8) 22 English SF author absorbs you no end — and the whole world! (8) 24 Kindle’s visible, so I hear (6) 26 Less than one professional for each French lawsuit (6,8)
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1 Frugal land, if ploughed, always produces illness (9,5) 2 Computers picked up fraud (4) 3 Sample mostly contaminated a vessel’s contents (6) 4 Spread ice pack over front of head to reveal pulse (8) 5 Cook eats a scrap (4) 7 A Parisian girl talked intemperately (6) 8 Person wanting better in fact can turn out bad (4,10) 12 Strong material used to make Gurkha kitbags (5) 14 Confrontation in ballgame? It replaces one in 2 (5) 16 Input device’s vital panel (8) 18 One-dimensional storyteller tours Durham, say (6) 21 Bird crosses line to start (6) 23 Substandard work blocking railway (4) 25 Big country loses a prominent feature (4)