DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tidies up timeless News at Ten, sadly omitting women (7) 5 Mischievous writer’s religious and silent (6) 9 Someone who’s well known yet lacking in skill? (7) 10 Call in a vehicle bringing back ice-cream (7) 11 Begin no-frills pitch perhaps (3) 12 Suspect foreign articles could hurt ours first (5,1,5) 13 Wagtail regularly seen in current garden area (5) 14 Officer in sailing ship read novel about one (9) 16 Lecturer goes round chalet, rebuilt for event (9) 17 English composer’s utter joy (5) 19 Revolutionary Polish hero engages positive thinker (11) 22 Make a note of grasping union’s main point (3) 23 Supporter of books left centre ground (7) 24 Most are going mad for 17, for example (7) 26 What many libraries do about, say, old story (6) 27 Medallion or ring in W. Sussex town American lost (7)

DOWN

1 Old Poles wear new T-shirt, perhaps continuously (7) 2 A group of conservationists reach 66N and 66S (9,6) 3 The BBC is not entirely in retreat (3) 4 Pass writer in ouskirts of Sunderland (5) 5 Comic is over in pub, switching his word order (9) 6 Dread article appearing in photograph (5) 7 Big-headed misguided Estonian lied about dandy (4-11) 8 Look! Is that George and his daughter? (6) 12 Wartime vessel — cryptic one in annual Thames race? (1-4) 14 Plot involves a lake diver in U.S. getting puffed out (9) 15 Ancient resin’s a colour between red and green (5) 16 Spot Dutch computer manufacturer (6) 18 12 Down’s fuel? It lies just under the surface (7) 20 Daisy, or what might be focused on her? (5) 21 Old poet could be occupant of loft (5) 25 It’s plumed, but not all over (3)

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