IRISH DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

NO 15799

ACROSS

1 Few vehicles about? Still, keep your eye on it (7,5) 8 Priest abandons penitent to go back in (2-5) 9 Time for ironing? (7) 11 PRO, highly trained, hosts English character in Egypt (10) 12 Beak backs civil liberties to some extent (4) 14 Don or arts master produces invoice with goods (3,5) 16 Nasty turn, then hairpin close to fence? That’s wrong (6) 17 Scrap book on information technology (3) 19 Spanish article about title ‘Crown Protector’ (6) 21 Contemplate what cattle do (8) 24 Bird lives around borders of Brunei (4) 25 Crew bound to cover one part of watch (10) 27 Chat cryptically in afternoon break (7) 28 Where one meets herons in different places? (7) 29 Train insured flyer, not needing manual support? (4-8)

DOWN

1 Article about turnover added to that (7) 2 Sort of ‘moon starer’? (10) 3 British runner, old fellow, lifted front leg (8) 4 Sinister lord brought up within city limits (6) 5 Sure-footed climber in central Tibet getting cross (4) 6 Hot atmosphere, I fear, oddly more dangerous (7) 7 Joint expert annoyed at priesthood (12) 10 Denizens of ageold glens flying with energy (6,6) 13 Sick fashionable girl, small, did some modelling (10) 15 Broadcast song (3) 18 Fish below bend in highway (8) 20 Beasts are mean – I’m also included (7) 22 Some in possession of big car paid maintenance (7) 23 Nurse accepts European employment (6) 26 German beer’s last carrier (4)