DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS 6 Clue suggesting Oman, Tunis or North American range? (5,9) 9 Conduct English class touring college (6) 10 Ambassador (European) lives in army’s compound (8) 11 Modern State Department sent bill (8) 13 Measure of Henry VIII (6) 15 Quick information coming from the wings (6) 17 Doctor, one for each man of the cloth? (6) 19 Newly-wed accepts German link (6) 20 First speech, one given by midwife? (4,4) 22 Run down beauty possessing sex appeal, tons (8) 24 I had left carved figurehead somewhere safe (6) 26 Frank, sailor with French restraint (14)

DOWN 1 Tense here, accompanying model (7,7) 2 Three choirs producing reverberating sound (4) 3 Goodness! It’s upset Catholic holy man (6) 4 Turn to Morse maybe – he’s probing foreign prince (8) 5 Register book, Anglo-Saxon, small (4) 7 Very nearly 500 ducks running round burn (6) 8 Navy left in various other things for polar display (8,6) 12 Latin poet ate old egg, say (5) 14 Criminal unit welcoming priest’s contribution (5) 16 Pier gets renewed reputation (8) 18 Mariner posted somewhere else (6) 21 He serves a magistrate during Prohibition (6) 23 Some run a risk following upheaval in country? (4) 25 Forge iron to shackle a king (4)

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