DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
6 I’m meant perhaps to stop new top-line performance (14) 9 Small ice-creams as part of a cream tea? (6) 10 Coppers’ award: top-of-the-range salad ingredient (8) 11 Having lost resistance, became less late (8) 13 Moving aimlessly in a pile of snow (6) 15 Black on a bizarre blue trinket (6) 17 Husband’s an idiot falling over bathroom item (6) 19 Rank rubbish in South America (6) 20 Cross old farceur’s premature end (8) 22 Adjust, say, ring for very close friend (5,3) 24 It’s delivered in anger by one in business (6) 26 Love space shuttles in east London? They had to reach this (6,8)
DOWN
1 Flung tables about, gaining time for big fights (7,7) 2 Start golf championship, say (4) 3 Regularly glueing specs to accommodate these? (6) 4 Jazz fans rise to another old abrupt style of play (8) 5 Couple I met on the way up (4) 7 Old Lisbon settler does exercises without short cut (6) 8 Heed safety soon? Potentially, yes (3,2,5,4) 12 Clean up – time to go up (5) 14 Steal top off dessert (5) 16 Former magazine is lent in poor condition to HM (8) 18 Foil gets crinkly wrapping ducks (6) 21 Director’s call in case (6) 23 Cut up end-ofterm test (4) 25 Check rule abandoned by government (4) PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 14,345, PO BOX 3451, Norwich, NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be postmarked no later than tomorrow. Please make sure you enclose your name and address.
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