DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Where Parisian encapsulates source of learning (4,10) 9 A tetchy clue like this one (6) 10 Make good joke about heartless yob in takeaway (5,3) 11 Lack of movement in suit perhaps (8) 13 Sell one, eventually going back outside (6) 15 EU blocks suggestions for commercial connections (3-3) 17 Around noon, a branch creates shade (6) 19 Tackle hot liquid? OK (6) 20 School uses same woman employed in parlour maybe (8) 22 Start off letter about this French article and other things (2,6) 24 Alan Sugar angrily rejecting USA’s overcoat (6) 26 Barmy peers interfere in feature of capitalism (4,10)

DOWN

1 Old airline working with hard men to find snake (3,11) 2 Decorate differently, putting up German flower (4) 3 Cereal dish Unionist included among chopped limes (6) 4 How to protect border road initially? This may help (8) 5 Catch sight of European mole (4) 7 Form a recess in linden tree (6) 8 I’d grant poor European nations commercial zones (7,7) 12 Prague resident’s trial broadcast (5) 14 Does it tie up the drink in Yorkshire perhaps? (5) 16 Programmes on ship broadcast across northeast (5-3) 18 Spike writer’s soft drink (6) 21 Angelic being’s peculiar phrase (6) 23 Contest doesn’t finish all square (4) 25 Shallow endless rubbish tips (4)

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