DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
NO 15,563
ACROSS
1 I’m a star dressed in smart clothing, exuding charm (11) 9 Put him with a cast to overact (3,2,2) 10 Torn denims — teenager’s first train of thought? (7) 11 Purpose, and what’s left after taking prop away? (3) 12 Boss accompanies European theatre trainee (7) 13 Vain, yet unusually showing a lack of experience (7) 14 Fifty-one euros collected, and other money (3) 15 Pies developed a dark brown colour (5) 17 It metamorphoses, not always into a dragonfly at first (5) 18 Doctor drinks whiskey and more bitter (5) 20 Tax collection system traps English person getting cheque (5) 22 Coach withdraws replacement (3) 24 Supervise some poetry in Old English (7) 25 At this stage of life maybe try bar first with sweetheart? (7) 26 Throw away odd parts of greasy fish (3) 27 Try to follow new title? Don’t bother with it (3,2,2) 28 Joy nursed one, born free (7) 29 Finally make gesture to partner with feeling (11)
DOWN
1 Local meeting point you reportedly suggested? (9,6) 2 Cruel, as you might say breathlessly, showing 13 (7) 3 Contribution from Russian leader, swapping parts (5) 4 Passing army ordered to guard old people on time (9) 5 Strain is mounting in part of joint (7) 6 Such work corrects my guise in different places (8,7) 7 Tool belonging to him found in church by apprentice (6) 8 Avoiding river, wandered off? On the contrary (6) 16 Pioneer gets sick eating very soft pizza (9) 18 Idly draw unemployment benefit to secure overdraft (6) 19 Upset teacher loves eating dry Italian food (7) 21 Involve brother instead of American in email (7) 23 Juvenile rubbish written about leading pair in Yiddish (6) 25 Is this structure only designed to carry power? (5)