DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Terrible Tom has a tantrum greeting Conservative (12) 8 Eight bananas in Hawaii constitute a meal (4,3) 9 University invested in trinkets? That’s odd (7) 11 Inflame former cabaret comic at start of event (10) 12 Grim gathering beside old city (4) 14 Finished Lord’s deliveries without black outerwear (8) 16 You’ve stirred up radical Peeping Tom (6) 17 Your old selection of best hyacinths (3) 19 Drinker’s last meal? (6) 21 Strange mood and atmosphere in bar heading off? (8) 24 Half an old shell or shells (4) 25 Hollow, or half of it (10) 27 Plant revolutionary slogan in former Thailand shortly? (7) 28 I’m going to put across students’ hostility (3,4) 29 Six pose in German vehicle at start of demo — rep leaves it (8,4)
DOWN
1 Related Anglicans hold dance up (7) 2 I get plates in order to produce prelims (5,5) 3 Home Counties battle furiously — restraint needed (8) 4 Read out complicated receipt, ignoring pennies (6) 5 Left harbour (4) 6 Current run on Scandinavian cash deposit (4,3) 7 Senior officer worked off-site packing rubbish (5,2,5) 10 Unexpectedly using leverage during 12 (12) 13 One way to teach singing’s fine in locations abroad (5,3-2) 15 Novel appears in English everywhere (3) 18 Horse spooked in early gallop initially (8) 20 Portsmouth team said it was overwhelmed in Italy (7) 22 Given instruction, Eddie managed to hire one female (7) 23 Complex alpine language in mountainous state (6) 26 It’s a foreign wine region (4)