DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Half cook Inuit food, not rotten, but not in a good state (3,2,9) 9 It’s hard to find blemish on church (6) 10 Put off collecting container, wine container (8) 11 It’s grand if I broadcast but it’s humiliating (5,3) 13 Former U.S. president nearly received a shock (6) 15 Host’s throwing Women’s Institute out (6) 17 Initially formal, stiff and unresponsive (6) 19 Unnamed wild flower? (6) 20 Royal put at risk touring area (8) 22 Extraordinary nun mixed up in fraud (8) 24 House doctor in heart of Africa making lozenges (6) 26 Pen-friend comes running, showing composure (8,2,4)

DOWN

1 Painter more precise, I hear, about old choker (3,11) 2 Prison disturbances on the rise? Nothing’s stolen (4) 3 Start and finish hurt (6) 4 Pedagogue’s time in Ecuador improved (8) 5 Simpleton’s last place of learning? (4) 7 The cause of most deaths in the Neolithic, say? (3,3) 8 Boy removed D-Day bombs? No way! (4,2,4,4) 12 Source of Russian river in the countryside (5) 14 Best to avoid cooking sugar beet — it’s boring (5) 16 It provides sustenance, even when Mike drops in (8) 18 Some strolled in glen and wooded valley (6) 21 Decontaminate conifer over in hill in France (6) 23 English boy lifted trunk (4) 25 Silence for god? (4)

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