DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Impromptu poem composed outside houses (14) 9 Against Irish following bible (6) 10 Worthy European enclosed in pit (8) 11 Cheap meat about to be eaten in exotic gardens (5-3) 13 Comic talent? It repelled China (6) 15 Carve second slice around disc (6) 17 Like better group of top referees (6) 19 Examinations in Fleet Street? (6) 20 Unbelievable credit withdrawn? It could be tough (8) 22 Pasta has name of Baltic capital on it everywhere (8) 24 Mostly call round before breakfast? (6) 26 Well-rounded doctor attends sick rockbreaker (9,5)

DOWN

1 Visitor can’t see tanks where he fills his own (7,7) 2 Celeb, one banned from part of flight (4) 3 In the morning peer revised current measure (6) 4 Warmer or cooler (8) 5 Vital information turned up in Montenegro (4) 7 Cook too much in party following 6 balls (6) 8 Around noon, nasty brutal colonel gets in a frenzy (14) 12 Blue that’s unknown in a flower (5) 14 Originally Man Utd footballers trained in civvies (5) 16 Reportedly got through test of country life (8) 18 Not much on? Go for a ride briefly in island (6) 21 Old fascist rises to accept small old foreign coin (6) 23 Lily’s unfinished revolutionary wall-painting (4) 25 Manage to conserve one wreck (4)

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