IRISH DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Gems worth distributing? Not very far (6, 5) 9 Perfect example of epic book college abandoned (7) 10 Exercise spoils suppers (5-2) 11 Lecturer withdraws approval (3) 12 Puzzled Australian birds asleep? (7) 13 One queen provided another water carrier (7) 14 Manage single at Old Trafford (3) 15 Person who copies 3 notes (5) 17 Regular beat police primarily employ circling lake (5) 18 Dark brown bird once found around Switzerland (5) 20 Small crowd get lost (5) 22 Queen tours English border (3) 24 Quack remedy that’s not unusual around south (7) 25 Eliot’s weaver welcomes independent seafarer (7) 26 Some fritter away a long period (3) 27 Mature staff tackling nude drunk (7) 28 Praise doctor of girl at conclusion of therapy (7) 29 Prominent unknown expert (retired) stops engraving (3-8)

DOWN

1 Given time, Mum’s wise coming dressed in beachwear (8, 7) 2 Marsupial soup’s brewed in central Colombia (7) 3 Editor recruits people to do his work (5) 4 Part-time soldiers once pranced about like Astaire (3, 6) 5 Supply new apparatus to cultivate perique (2-5) 6 Women’s Institute flush out slim star? Some hope! (7, 8) 7 Recall engineers scrubbing component (6) 8 Hard to find article in foreign press (6) 16 Service aimed randomly for the internet, TV etc (4, 5) 18 New university brought in horse to supply this? (6) 19 Summarise a game (7) 21 Stuff mounted on current radio transmitter (7) 23 One dying for his beliefs during Weimar tyranny (6) 25 Joe’s captivated by computer tricks (5)