DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Survey deception during cultural revival (14) 9 Large bird’s very large victim (6) 10 Family insignia led Harry astray (8) 11 TV sitcom family, originally terribly mean types (8) 13 Help string player who’s lost book (6) 15 Female managed business for dictator (6) 17 Buckle made for mackintosh belts (6) 19 Get brown medal (6) 20 Where batsman stands up (8) 22 Firmly establish recent changes across new hotel (8) 24 Feed calcium to wild lion — it’ll stop squealing (6) 26 Alsatian guy with crook chases FBI agent guarding top lady (6,8)

DOWN

1 Angry Nick Clegg at first stops judge making footnote maybe (5-9) 2 Disfigure golden statuette, knocking head off (4) 3 Foreign enemy captures unknown organic substance (6) 4 Part of code man resubmits popping up as identifier (8) 5 Remove water from one of four small bars at Lord’s (4) 7 Strange hashtag leaves Henry stunned (6) 8 Seasonal mail? Richard’s scams failed to bag tons (9,5) 12 Mark 2 once (5) 14 Small cornet? Jam on it perhaps (5) 16 Job that involves constant bending over? (8) 18 The last Henry’s stature, top to toe (6) 21 Rough children work extremely poorly (6) 23 President fires top and bottom (4) 25 Some ale escapes, revealing sediment (4)

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