DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Paper shows poet grabbing policeman (4,4) 5 Bandage what gets injured in Kent, perhaps (6) 9 Joined adult and chatted away (8) 10 Walk in the country, picking top off blackberry (6) 12 Sauce spread over your anchovies for starters (4) 13 Team engineer byproduct that’s often undesirable (4,6) 15 Out of touch, manic duo dispersed after pay cut (13) 19 At theatre, son’s trained in direction (4-9) 23 Hesitant Irish let euros get wasted (10) 25 Old ME ruler quietly seizes centre of Sahara (4) 28 These animals’ vicious horns captivate one (6) 29 Ornamental work? Current busy girl in charge (8) 30 Cricket team, say, exit in the middle (6) 31 Novice crew on manoeuvres around Middle East (8)
DOWN
1 Mount covers acres, roughly speaking (6) 2 Irritable character in Grahame’s book (5) 3 Prepare to fire farmyard boss (4) 4 Suspect umpire receives minute bonus (7) 6 Dockyard with empty RAF compound (5) 7 An officer presents first item in cellar (5,4) 8 Slogan in Reagan campaign? It’s tiny but powerful (8) 11 Table of screen options, prime numbers included (4) 14 Scrutinise small tin (4) 15 Available for use during ceremony (2,7) 16 Police in London assembled (3) 17 This writer’s a Muslim primarily, a leading one (4) 18 Poke about in wee family tree (8) 20 Bank really misses Albert (4) 21 Leaders use it in emergency in hotel complex (7) 22 Pity he’d stupidly split paddle (2,4) 24 Pebble, heavy one in sea mostly (5) 26 New York district left out accommodation for women (5) 27 Record is held by detective constable (4)