DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Order speaker to curb angry trio restructuring in Russia (11) 9 Big bird torments Alice in suburbs of Portadown (7) 10 Furrow not known originally in battered relic (7) 11 Slip on snow in middle of Enniskillen (3) 12 Command detectives returning to gallery (7) 13 Junction in New York lacking variable system (7) 14 Membrane surrounding a cyst principally (3) 15 Harmonious sounds of American collected by microphone (5) 17 Officer forgets the Spanish punctuation mark (5) 18 Benefactor makes entrance about noon (5) 20 Rustic, as are some deans (5) 22 Theologian comforts one old man (3) 24 Orange pottery from Japan (7) 25 Examine beetle, say, eating centre of lupin (7) 26 Wrong one put in tin (3) 27 Work in Fleet Street clubs, perhaps, covering plot (7) 28 A piano set among trees, I hear, for swingers’ bar (7) 29 Eager to obtain golden remedy for congestion maybe (11)

DOWN

1 Local cop’s been struggling with it — this cop? (6,9) 2 Work miracle and recover (7) 3 Poles go in to watch hearing, for instance (5) 4 Group of drivers fill vehicle guzzling gallons — this one? (6,3) 5 I sent in papers to do with hearing? That’s daft (7) 6 Crude low-necked garment lacks royal acceptance (15) 7 A quarter of the pack passed poorly (6) 8 Think about hoax involving king (6) 16 Mocking sex appeal with right actors in charge (9) 18 School is sued for neglect (6) 19 Manage to entertain old NI party rally (5,2) 21 Opera house in which Callas worked with amateur (2,5) 23 Hesitate during audit here (6) 25 First bars erected in a fortnight (5)

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