Irish Daily Mail

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Barman upset by director needs form of identifica­tion (7) 5 Stop enquiries outwardly in half of district (6) 9 Labels for packages haphazardl­y stocked (7) 10 A lot of concern current essentiall­y about large deer (7) 11 European taken with second style of rock music (3) 12 Point on cart designed for a device (11) 13 Produce second piece of a weak type? (5) 14 Took action? (9) 16 Look round area in this way with increased dense fog (9) 17 Place for a concert, say, in tree-lined street lacking entrance (5) 19 Sleek trader dressed in headgear (11) 22 Pioneering woman shown in volume in here regularly (3) 23 Attract fish after returning on side sheltered from the wind (7) 24 Ruffian in group acquiring equipment (7) 26 Writer Bram approved among rest possibly (6) 27 Policy probed by southern journalist for source of oil (7)

DOWN

1 A new outfit for actress Ursula (7) 2 Chap in memo reacting badly has excessive control of a project? (15) 3 Copy recording after wasting time (3) 4 Inventor James definitely marginalis­ed boy (5) 5 One painting home unusually cared too about rear of bar (9) 6 Fasten components brought up (5) 7 Minimal screw? (11,4) 8 Changed course and became sour? (6) 12 Some panic ongoing in African river (5) 14 Proposal in complicate­d deal right for a Scandinavi­an (9) 15 Donor I have shortly found in Greece (5) 16 Start to perceive confusion with minute gone in pool of rainwater (6) 18 Corrected writer with note put in two editions (7) 20 Surfers try to avoid this unscrupulo­us operator (5) 21 King with a religious decree restricted Asian capital (5) 25 Hostelry found in Minnesota (3)

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