DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Three notes performed in treble time (7) 5 Fights are ultimately few and far between (6) 9 Ask for popular papers (7) 10 Algeria condemned trappings of high office (7) 11 Runner swaddled in bearskin (3) 12 Patrick possibly isn’t chasing customers (6,5) 13 Stuff that features in Just William (5) 14 Church of England poet tripped over fine drink container (6,3) 16 Catholic general (9) 17 Develop initially low throaty sound (5) 19 Walker circles each motorway to find what helped to make it? (11) 22 Wool supplier in Tunbridge Wells (3) 23 Like club, so work hard to secure umpire (7) 24 Nice here — I arrive in need of refreshment (7) 26 Help a ship first (6) 27 Downgraded annual check in fact (7)

DOWN

1 Matching clothes — aim of tennis player without ball? (7) 2 Stylish Queen’s visit is arranged, generating curiosity (15) 3 Foreign coins collected by couple individually (3) 4 Crime of male and female during races (5) 5 Ploughed furrow for one in soil that’s dismal (9) 6 Protection needed when touring, say, Italy (5) 7 Order files on publicity in action? I’m the better for it (4-11) 8 Unable to go on, secretary bird eats last of worms (4,2) 12 Pounding lentils, for instance (5) 14 Crossing loch, Sea Scout cooked stew (9) 15 Keen to resurrect Jamaican music, not golf (5) 16 Winning several games yields unexpected results (6) 18 Haul fish up in Caribbean islands (7) 20 French husband adopts old Polynesian language (5) 21 Strip club free? That’s shocking (5) 25 Energy of rocket on November 5th (3)

No 15,664 PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 15,664, PO BOX 3451, Norwich, NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be...