DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 More attractive after all her gin gets drunk? (6,4,4) 9 Avoid English primate touring small capitals (6) 10 Team cross about way to 9? (4,4) 11 Town in Mali primarily but wrongly captivating us? (8) 13 Complain about priest’s flu once (6) 15 Carve small slit round album (6) 17 Jones the architect masks source of dark blue colour (6) 19 A little matter for heavyweight (6) 20 A fellow lecturer, say, in excited state (8) 22 Shaky old men accept one energy drink (8) 24 Suddenly attack group of French submarines going west (6) 26 Missing curate found on ground clutching cycle (11,3)

DOWN

1 One tucks in an assortment of corpulent sags? (7,7) 2 Piece from opera I rarely mounted (4) 3 Embellish second level on liner, by the sound of it (6) 4 He recklessly charged the Russians for his garment (8) 5 Dressed college boy (4) 7 Crazy fusspot heading off to see start of game? (4-2) 8 Ruminants need four of these mixers perhaps (4,10) 12 Frank, spy (5) 14 Setter Dorothy swallows one nut (5) 16 Write label on plane figure (8) 18 Whalebone embargo secures protection (6) 21 Abandon new yeast, for instance (6) 23 Uniform in old church that’s painful! (4) 25 Polish expert (4)

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