DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Chum seen wobbling, initially showing lack of colour (8) 5 Roman assassin avoided top-class liqueur (6) 9 Tree remained, say, getting early treatment (5,3) 10 Main attacker beginning to pinch cross (6) 12 Writer’s a male leader in mosque (4) 13 Hot Spice, 28, owns European car (4,6) 15 What Edward I did in Scotland in 1304, I hear, for currency (5,8) 19 Fear rabid Arabian pooch circling husband (13) 23 Bewildered Zulu guided behind tall grass (10) 25 Utter English with German (4) 28 Gall, food for some caterpillars (6) 29 Fresh food nearly all cooked at sea (8) 30 Leave notice about this in France and Germany (6) 31 Scaremonger having an inclination to hide weapon (8)
DOWN
1 Seabird not completely out of breath (6) 2 Hot rock smothers rare young animal (5) 3 Pay particular attention to books in northeast (4) 4 Stiff and unnatural, like tall circus performers? (7) 6 Excuse a large book blocking speaker’s eyes (5) 7 A girl has managed to secure name for ideal place (7-2) 8 Meat supplier, mature, offers cheap bunks (8) 11 Drop name taken from overthrown Athenian in Shakespeare (4) 14 Golf hotel hosts American rave (4) 15 No-nonsense priest (RC) invests a grand in fiddle (9) 16 Fool that emerges from plant (3) 17 Royal award for ceremonial garment (4) 18 Spotted Bachelor of Surgery nursing one old surgeon (8) 20 Eastern menagerie raised the opposite of 14? (4) 21 He fled in panic round bend, taking notice (7) 22 The way setter worked (6) 24 Drunk pulling up bunch of dandelions (5) 26 Antipodean people almost free to support chairman (5) 27 Originally the supreme autocrat, leader of Russia (4)
SOLUTION TO PRIZE CROSSWORD No 15,644 ACROSS: 1 Remodel. 5 In-laws. 9 Fidgety. 10 Technic. 11 Sac. 12 Oxygen masks. 13 Lunge. 14 Death trap. 16 Pickaback. 17 Bleep. 19 Tobacconist. 22 Wat. 23 Ring off. 24 Shampoo. 26 Sturdy. 27 Enlarge. DOWN: 1 Refusal. 2 Medicine cabinet. 3 Doe. 4 Lay by. 5 In the dark. 6 Locum. 7 Windscreen wiper. 8 Acts up. 12 Omega. 14 Dragonfly. 15 Habit. 16 Petard. 18 Pothole. 20 Choir. 21 Issue. 25 Ail.