DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Drama by captivating old womaniser (7) 5 Seafood originally prepared uncooked by Poles (6) 9 Green leaves Spain flummoxed – and Switzerland (7) 10 Firm to eat in studio during late burst (2,5) 11 Live with European worker (3) 12 Royal heir’s top priest in church (5,6) 13 Gaseous element, unknown new one that’s around (5) 14 Distressed crew skip ringing harbour, with this result? (9) 16 Old soldier grasped this fish on small Welsh river (9) 17 Briefly redirect person exploring submerged 14 Across? (5) 19 Pierce trained with actor to return the favour (11) 22 Squeeze inverted part of 9 (3) 23 National emblem could make the list (7) 24 Cancel odd pieces of section appearing in red (7) 26 Country beginning to undermine leading pair in Gabon (6) 27 Yacht club want to retain constant overall courtesy (7)

DOWN

1 Daily Mail delivered here after fight? (7) 2 Completely fit amateur charged with giving up (5,3,7) 3 Lady’s neckwear, bought on account initially (3) 4 Swift creature loves grass coming up (5) 5 Claimant’s clear difference of opinion (9) 6 Embarrassed US city erected tree (5) 7 Overt tone in inn scuppered new hands-off policy (15) 8 Decorate secondclass level on board, saving energy (6) 12 Coins smell top to bottom (5) 14 Hence a poet meets artist in Coronation Street, say (4,5) 15 Golf club with head start (5) 16 Illegally reproduce cross under pressure (6) 18 Charge in vain at high speed (7) 20 Dish holding bread priest consumed before noon (5) 21 Like thick smoke, very dry, containing carbon (5) 25 Primarily some aerated cavity? (3)

PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 15,679, PO BOX 3451, Norwich, NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be postmarked no l