DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 15,964 PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be postmarked no later than tomorrow. Please make sure you enclose your name and address.
ACROSS
6 Nile crustacean dissected in biology, say (7,7) 9 Becoming married in Home Counties cathedral city (6) 10 Queen Victoria hosted casual assortment of vessels (8) 11 Redundant member’s meagre item on barbecue (8) 13 Carry out English fellows etc., drunk (6) 15 Take off staff, stopping their wages (6) 17 Start changing accommodation’s first beds (6) 19 They support arms in casts (6) 20 Carve one small copy in Tyneside perhaps (8) 22 New sitcom’s about individual displaying patience (8) 24 Those studying 6 like this character (6) 26 Managerial cleric wastes energy blocking a case (14)
DOWN
1 People swimming with rudd and tuna like some islands (14) 2 Scrap half the alphabet (4) 3 Collect curious person touring area (6) 4 There’s rotten cheese in it, and it’s crumbling (3,5) 5 People start university courses (4) 7 Molten rock with unpleasant smell in basin (6) 8 Did he incinerate a larch cone and burr somehow? (8-6) 12 Repeat broadcast underran and has been sidelined (5) 14 Dash just over lake (5) 16 Make hopeless trips I’d arranged across island (8) 18 Lot of children gathered, taking day out (6) 21 Badly nauseated without tea, fancy ice cream (6) 23 Bird is hiding its front half (4) 25 Upcoming memoir talks about musical group (4)