CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Survey fraud during

cultural revival (14)

9 Singer Michael (dropping accent) accepts a knick-knack (6)

10 Running after French revolutionary horse race (8)

11 Finns disrupted

a German party (4,4) 13 Haunt frantic

bosses (6)

15 The new Northern Ireland college based on traditional culture (6)

17 Old money does unexpectedly contain copper (6)

19 Small cold collar

once covered this (6) 20 PPE perhaps, a couple of lines included in deliveries (8)

22 Plants welcome

cookies without it (8) 24 Make a mistake

with assignment (6) 26 Where the units go isn’t relevant (6,3,5)

DOWN

1 Mobsters ran church

straddling border (9,5) 2 One refuses to strike

second taxi (4)

3 Primarily stiff joints mentioned as indicator of cold? (6)

4 American leader quits in a rage, attracting huge interest (8)

5 Treaty put in case, by

the sound of it (4)

7 Scottish political figure

topped tree (6)

8 Groom enlists car pool to transfer fertiliser between plants (5-9)

12 Indian statesman once in need, hard up now and then (5)

14 Bath University visits

NASA complex (5)

16 Fenced ground with it, having caught bug (8)

18 Boris is missing school’s

first course (6)

21 Free former politician

and French guards (6) 23 Individual is shouldering

Republican flag (4)

25 Means of transporting

secretive bird (4)

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