DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
6 Put pressure on ex-bride (old one), styled like Monroe? (8,6) 9 Seafood is sent back — heart’s affected (6) 10 Spends too much on deliveries to French country (8) 11 Innocuous but hot, like Venus in the Louvre (8) 13 Enliven 66 frozen youngsters at the start (6) 15 Fill round trophy in suburbs of Coventry (6) 17 Singer’s quaver microphone initially picked out (6) 19 Does ground, hiding copper coin in Lisbon once (6) 20 Same title in same novel nearly exposed banks (8) 22 Twice he buys old male a record cleaner (4,4) 24 Learner, say, to finish fabulous story (6) 26 I’d great moves in part, one of many in script (5,9)
DOWN
1 e.g. cricket magazine’s left (9,5) 2 Expert start to main event in Albert Hall (4) 3 Customs once accompanied this extract (6) 4 Ring waiter about British newspaper (8) 5 Where to find chickens in supermarket (4) 7 Soporific words spoiled end of story (6) 8 When to take stock or retribution? (3,2,9) 12 Greek character recruits an accountant in former colony (5) 14 Lute’s played with this instrument in vestibules (5) 16 Crops cultivated on banks of rising river generate income (8) 18 Wading bird on middle of marsh in his sights? (6) 21 Ill-feeling in African state supported by Anglicans (6) 23 Advantage after topping and tailing accounts book (4) 25 Doctor keeps even bits of fruit in bag (4)