IRISH DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

NO 15,967

ACROSS

1 Exact quarters for Anglicans (7) 5 Look into mock greeting in Haifa (6) 9 Butcher uses this article having learned about it (7) 10 Fruit’s almost plentiful in a planter (7) 11 Put on a big bra? (3) 12 Remove attraction from game — it needs changing (11) 13 Baby’s mother corners black snake (5) 14 Fine kings host function for research group (5-4) 16 Where agents eat after touring Spain? (9) 17 A range of maps (5) 19 Depressing sounds here where carriages always return (6,5) 22 I, for example, ring (3) 23 He votes for former German prince (7) 24 Moneylender’s jar containing yen and lire (7) 26 Second-rate, not even accepted by cast (6) 27 Impressive person, crazy about Nebraska Republican (7)

DOWN

1 Losing energy, better point and call out (7) 2 Cook cheesed off with poem about recipe? That’s right (7,2,6) 3 Minister very nearly upended (3) 4 Fragment of deep romantic memory (5) 5 Girl has struggled to acquire an earthly paradise (72) 6 Match a colour? Not quite (5) 7 Very rarely persuade an icon to pen English song (4,2,1,4,4) 8 Vein runs through joint perhaps (6) 12 Bought and sold planks before end of August (5) 14 Hear person going round old political group (4,5) 15 Poet heading for Kentucky has a meal (5) 16 Chop nearly all of lettuce for a change (6) 18 Poles love great monarch’s game (7) 20 Recorded ordinary journalist? (5) 21 Ring sibling to collect a band (5) 25 Last to study Open University puzzler (3)