DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
6 Choose crazy party hero for powerful treatment (14) 9 Obliterate F1, say? (6) 10 Landholders attempt to follow a number after 10 (8) 11 It has a bit of memory set in complicated core (8) 13 Anxiety returned about start of action in plant (6) 15 Lure in a group of apprentices (6) 17 Doctor slices fish in cold latitudes (6) 19 Open out peacekeepers’ list (6) 20 Old coins union left invested create great wealth (8) 22 Sailor’s fears are misplaced (8) 24 In boundless troubles, Russia’s ready (6) 26 Bentham’s theory combined endless futility with heresy (14)
DOWN
1 Men’s golf event played about middle of April – UK rule (4-10) 2 Maybe talk about second letter from Greece (4) 3 Witness a time trial (6) 4 Out injured, accept rag – replying thus? (5,3) 5 Health food logo’s not finished (4) 7 Uproar in court changed jury’s conclusion (6) 8 Nelson’s got his own small ads in it (8,6) 12 Somewhere to have a barbecue in anticipation (5) 14 Gallop over top of green line of hills (5) 16 Public figure dumps book for speed (8) 18 House big car – or dread the outcome (6) 21 Amazing neural reconstruction(6) 23 People emerge from lake at regular intervals (4) 25 Sample of munitions for army group (4)