DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Bishops are moved thus, affecting everybody (6,3,5) 9 Check out herb picked up in big freeze (3,3) 10 Writer’s company keeps diary for study of fungi (8) 11 A cricket club tried controversial sanction (8) 13 Piece of zinc is easy to engrave (6) 15 Poem mostly about mother’s heart beat (6) 17 Calm drunk, seated (6) 19 Malevolent creature left in desert at noon (6) 20 Engineer demonised, having left mike unbalanced (3-5) 22 Coach skater in West Indies to practise another sport (5-3) 24 Disregard piece editor finally scrapped (6) 26 While sailor runs round uni cadets are tested on these (7,7)

DOWN

1 Cancel bad old version of English tests for junior officers (5,9) 2 Sporting venue doesn’t include new space (4) 3 Climb small church as well as houses (6) 4 Some French copy energy report (8) 5 Bear over in SW river (4) 7 Fruit’s dull inside also (6) 8 Insured letters had an effect on job (10,4) 12 Excellent pair of men (5) 14 Person from Zagreb wants rare independent animal (5) 16 Work on the sly but in good faith (8) 18 Clubs help Australian erect every sign here (6) 21 Be frugal with revised EU token before it ends (3,3) 23 His brother cheated him out of apple sauce (4) 25 People who perform acts all over the place (4)

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