DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Press expert to call up committee about college (6,8) 9 A Kipling hero, short boy with elbows extended (6) 10 Would you mind repeating that dance? (6,2) 11 Letter left out about this French area and others (2,6) 13 Fluid problem mentioned in embargoed email (6) 15 Top screen of shrubs forming border (6) 17 Turk not taking sides about confident moneylender (6) 19 Musicians don’t delete absorbing record (6) 20 Wasting time using PA system is irksome (8) 22 British firm backs officer, one that’s served at table (8) 24 Ocean-going vessel with sounder (6) 26 Sigh at Panorama’s controversial hallucinating images (14)

DOWN

1 Customer survey upsets car-makers there (6,8) 2 Shot doctor before 12 (4) 3 Appeal to popular very fine European (6) 4 Misleading southern darling abandons Romeo (8) 5 Spy briefly turns up, perhaps 10? (4) 7 Sebastian and Valerie are the same age (6) 8 When in November REME army band plays round church (11,3) 12 Nearly four score one more than 19 (5) 14 Race the German lad without oxygen (5) 16 Citizen, one working in former SA province (8) 18 Element a detective found in drink (6) 21 Late ’80s philosophy from comedian in Durham Echo? (3,3) 23 What diverts traffic once after crash? (4) 25 Distinctive atmosphere in restaurant (4)