DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

No 15,646

ACROSS

6 Hurl endless explosive into vent for such work? (8,6) 9 Target: 7 minutes to run round court (6) 10 Salt round sharp turn on a track? That’s helpful (8) 11 Boycott diamonds — they constitute a hazard (5,3) 13 Your old clothes etc. make you irritable (6) 15 Mystery note in jumbled-up image (6) 17 Dread Conservative almost admitting sin (6) 19 Open bar with large disco now and then (6) 20 Kindness and energy shown by old Herb around women (8) 22 Pair set out in rain, jogged along river bank (8) 24 Standard engines without starter needing repair (6) 26 Last nasty mess sorted with Yankee IT specialist (7,7)

DOWN

1 Welfare? Yes, it’s crucial possibly with nothing coming in (6,8) 2 Compact Arsenal’s heading into final (4) 3 Seafood racket dominates page 1 (6) 4 Some letters are about food (8) 5 Squad forms part of retinue heading north (4) 7 Become aware of it in former county (6) 8 Throngs excited about the RNLI’s polar display (8,6) 12 Icy summit of Cairngorm mountain (5) 14 Harry Worth’s cast (5) 16 Show of bravado from Scotsman, his second (8) 18 Some shrug and admire state of Africa (6) 21 Travelling across Spain, single (3-3) 23 Faculty begins to lose way at first (4) 25 Fabled underground river remains audible (4)