IRISH DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pop fan’s been working with youth leader in big hat (11) 9 Request expert to accept name with suspicion (7) 10 Evict solicitor stealing vase (4,3) 11 Trim, short guy from Warsaw returns (3) 12 Curled up clutching book – here? (4,3) 13 Start puffing – plug hit everywhere (5,2) 14 Sailor’s back, the first to leave ship? (3) 15 Salvation Army primarily broadcast composition (5) 17 Soldiers head west carrying first of milled wheat (5) 18 Shot a play (5) 20 Irishman’s wage including old pennies (5) 22 Withdraw English double bass (3) 24 Shield bend on river (7) 25 Handle one exiled from South American country (7) 26 Bird of prey drops first of kiwi fruit (3) 27 JK Rowling’s humans last to start run (7) 28 First woman to accept a hint, she’s moved to safety (7) 29 Left back very big piano in this place where we can breathe (11) DOWN

1 Allow for one UK– NATO tactic going askew (4,4,7) 2 Give title to benevolent comic, disregarding vet (7) 3 Hand over earnings (5) 4 Performed better,

having audibly spent penny inside (9) 5 Quiet, oddly eerie about midnight where moon’s closest (7) 6 About 20°C, more mature port goes off round Spain (4,11) 7 Great changes inspiring international spat (6) 8 Small men seize ram in state of nearconsciousness (6) 16 Batman maybe initially stood up for each celebrity (9) 18 Seabed could become lower in quality (6) 19 Briskly, following a couple of lines, I crossed river (7) 21 Distance covered when reversing, say, a cart (7) 23 It alerts doctor, 45 perhaps, during drink (6) 25 Chimney cleaner beginning to sob and cry (5)