DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 One’s absent from plain Arctic vessel for training period (14) 9 In brief test, four produce trifles (6) 10 Sanctions hoodwink businesses (8) 11 Gamete: German one taken from rodents by students (4,4) 13 On horseback in part of Yorkshire once (6) 15 Correspondent quietly enters Nepal deviously (3,3) 17 Cleaner finished head office first (6) 19 Ancient silver lode looted (3-3) 20 Creature roaming everywhere overwhelms son (8) 22 Ceramic fragment dug up, others smashed in fringes of pond (8) 24 Advice to first of explorers: move carefully (6) 26 Work with sales force directly (2,3,4,5)

DOWN

1 Wartime fliers ruined Eire’s grain crop (7,7) 2 Big wheels turn for dodgy dealer (4) 3 Threaten crew with hole in one (6) 4 Typically best case, worst case or possibly iron case (8) 5 Wine tasting is out of bounds (4) 7 Angler uses this to stop someone in Rugby (6) 8 Your reaction to virus? Presume mine’s no different (6,8) 12 Guy with nothing consumes good fruit (5) 14 Couch used by opera star at finale of ‘Carmen’ (5) 16 Following German car into French church (8) 18 Criminal loves witchcraft (6) 21 Boycott restricts time to leave (3,3) 23 Note old district in London (4) 25 Old man at home, suffering (4)