DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Duty inspires boy possibly to absorb literature (14) 9 Permit to attend course (6) 10 Very bad year in fashionable Dutch chateau (8) 11 B. Bryson struggled with English haughtiness (8) 13 Someone like Thoreau, sadly short of energy (6) 15 Immoderate behaviour is more than desirable (6) 17 Rank laws, removing note (6) 19 African country’s former capital (6) 20 Send goods abroad again formerly covered by account (2-6) 22 Miss deliveries by John and Kelvin (8) 24 He’s not wanted on plane carrying clubs (6) 26 Very touchy, Stephen is very irritated with one (14)

DOWN

1 At sea, U.S. navy cornered cartographers (8,6) 2 Sailor captures southern emperor (4) 3 Sailor who loves olive oil, I hear (6) 4 Bountiful sailor and German worker (8) 5 Perform quiet song (4) 7 States importing very old vegetables (6) 8 Blunders deceive 10 nurses, scared stiff (6-8) 12 Firm veto houses for Irish painter (5) 14 Reckon baby’s awake (3,2) 16 Small fish wriggled as he rose (3,5) 18 Faulty gun fine in the middle (6) 21 Fiddle with a wire close to plug to eavesdrop (6) 23 Smell stream in U.S. about to vanish (4) 25 Place with bars gives Jack trouble (4)

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