DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 To prevail, we ought somehow to secure one (8) 5 Graduate fills bread in part of Tunis, say (6) 9 Son leaves trendy dive — it’s dirty (8) 10 Damages proceeds of theft (6) 12 Sauce, say, sprinkled over duck (4) 13 Dangerous tropical bird guards hotel with mad dog (5,3,2) 15 UK learner won’t fancy ‘brainy’ IT system (6,7) 19 Mow Durham test ground to reach required standard (3,3,7) 23 Belief of new biblebelt hotshot losing bottle (10) 25 Support pub that accepts euros (4) 28 Muslim rulers seem worried about monarch (6) 29 Scholar who managed to pen endlessly bright novel (8) 30 Sway like Del Boy when chandelier’s finally dropped? (6) 31 Finish what chick leaves (8)
DOWN
1 Poor negotiators losing grant become redundant (6) 2 Twenty went away carrying strange drink (5) 3 Cut out piece of sweet chestnut (4) 4 Boat beginning to drift in choppy lagoon (7) 6 Controlling male scalp hair absorbs him (5) 7 Very drunk, collapse, unable to see (9) 8 They’re used in church with hot or cold top (hot here) (8) 11 Semiconductor controls this symbol on screen (4) 14 Royal hospital keeps American plant in bog (4) 15 It’s nourishing with or without starter of meat (9) 16 He’s garish but not entirely (3) 17 Hobo wants money for transport (4) 18 It contains rotten cheese that’s shrinking (3,5) 20 Gave off stink with top off? It’s what 18s do (4) 21 My job environment (7) 22 Small digger’s beginning to till lower compound (6) 24 Lighter except, say, on way up (5) 26 Ghostly eastern lake (5) 27 The States rejected Spain like that (4)