IRISH DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 High-ranking woman starts to dress up game (7) 5 Compel trade to shed thousands (6) 9 Welcome doctor among English people (7) 10 What dinosaurs are incorporated into foreign text? (7) 11 Time to get on (3) 12 Leaving rule about sport initially into a ground (11) 13 Irish MP crosses tiny river (5) 14 Ma does the cooking in this house (9) 16 School angered about gold instrument (4,5) 17 Hotel in French resort aimed at specialist market (5) 19 Controversial actor is risqué, top class (11) 22 Regularly strike match (3) 23 For location of Pacific battle look in a war zone (7) 24 Copy souvenir a priest brought in (7) 26 Good shot of small child spending a penny (6) 27 Talked about old duke getting scared (7)

DOWN

1 Stop working with actors such as some old models (3-4) 2 Lead box for transmission system (5,10) 3 Live over many years (3) 4 With which to see better spots, say? (5) 5 Minister in Sri Lanka supported by Germany oddly (9) 6 More time consumed by old artist (5) 7 Eccentric kind of criminal deception (10,5) 8 When we have lunch and first of dinner made up (6) 12 Broadcast notice in port (5) 14 What supports hungry child and judge in court (9) 15 Fine branch of Islam, by the sound of it (5) 16 Conclude ‘About a Boy’ (6) 18 Dealer arranged to guard motorway stone (7) 20 Some climbed over top of mountain in March (5) 21 Experts tour river and a lot of land (5) 25 In favour of making contribution to whip-round (3)