DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 A group keeps one trophy table in clothes store (6,8) 9 Start to kill rampant fungus mostly in selfdefence (4,2) 10 Chart showing columns save space round Royal Hotel (3,5) 11 Ambassador cracking foreign prince’s code (8) 13 Cover son in cool river (6) 15 It’s so wonderful gathering rotten wood (6) 17 Discuss obligation to host a European (6) 19 Old king makes disapproving noise on two occasions (3-3) 20 Lower iron? (8) 22 Relative comes across freezing vehicle for clown (8) 24 Section of Foot marching perfectly (6) 26 Crazy Caribbean plan to keep uranium in unstable state (6,8)

DOWN

1 Pacific nation develops a genuine papaw with bend in it (5,3,6) 2 Vessel’s black sails etc. (4) 3 The Noughties offered more than a sufficient amount (6) 4 Evaluate the value of a very quiet lift (8) 5 Forbidding river not entirely in Iberia (4) 7 Fancy tennis star snubbing fan! Schwarzenegger played him (6) 8 What House journalist did that doesn’t use direct quotes (8,6) 12 One fish trap spans large fjord (5) 14 Alarm transport in home counties (5) 16 He checks pupils’ work on Italian artist, I hear (8) 18 Stick poster in this spot (6) 21 In-crowd supplies hint about smart measure? (6) 23 Persuade helmsman to tour area (4) 25 Kelvin’s regularly upset QC (4)

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