DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 15,567, PO BOX 3451, Norwich, NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be postmarked no later than tomorrow. Please make sure you enclose your name and address.

ACROSS

1 Brown spots head leaving school without care (8) 5 Teacher briefly owns old luxury car of this brand? (6) 9 Contest between towers perhaps won by Yanks? (3-2-3) 10 Gloss paint sprayed by amateur (6) 12 Steer around US city stone (4) 13 Status of writer frittering away hours at joint (10) 15 We engaged nursing students with good equipment (4-9) 19 Doctor met us coming in, taking ages (4-9) 23 Call to identify significant digit for union (4,6) 25 One’s almost rented detached piece of land (4) 28 Forged coin, one cent, familiar to many (6) 29 Emit a fug all over the place? (8) 30 Sings regularly in Tyrol valleys, say? (6) 31 Start to find wild mint (8)

DOWN

1 Horatio Nelson has consumed his share (6) 2 Guarded old film star James, ignoring note (5) 3 Abandoned port (4) 4 St Paul is represented holding a painter’s tool (7) 6 Broadcasting different 1 Down, wasting time (2,3) 7 Chairs get smashed in European parliament (9) 8 Charge printed on front of envelope (8) 11 Flog whiskey and fruit (4) 14 Endlessly plug country alliance (4) 15 Ladies collectively find old chap with Henry in forest (9) 16 Nearly finished step (3) 17 One teacher put up flag (4) 18 It takes forever chopping up tree in borders of Turkey (8) 20 Not a soul mounted rear of Parthenon (4) 21 Not evenly balanced in tune quality (7) 22 In which to find small Ceres bust? (6) 24 Ruffle lecturers after end of working week (5) 26 Female controls a quiet form (5) 27 Struggle with conviction (4)