DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
No 15,701
ACROSS
1 Shrub, and where it grows in Aberdeen primarily (8) 5 Danger from personnel employed by milk distributor (6) 9 See salesman back at church at a quarter past four (8) 10 Dash quickly nonstop to meet spies (6) 12 Pity about old currency (4) 13 Last course brought on board could be Danish (4,6) 15 Game bloke’s interrupting screen expert (5,4,4) 19 Deadly seat of power (8,5) 23 Morning buzz disturbing event? (4-2,4) 25 Group of renegades sent back piece of vital code (4) 28 Retired Irish singer in part of Venice (6) 29 This broadcast about US army unit is a sensation (5,3) 30 Like first pieces of jigsaw, or this . . . ? (6) 31 e.g. adored everywhere, like some old books (3-5)
DOWN
1 Republican Party woman’s ground squirrel (6) 2 Cut field in Queens not so easy to find (5) 3 Like 2 and 4, say, eventually beginning (4) 4 In Virginia, cover’s null and void (7) 6 Erica has previously limited energy (5) 7 Former PM’s country home reduced chancellor’s office (9) 8 Ruin effort to secure commercial compromise (5-3) 11 Female worried about what’s served with 13 (4) 14 Start to finish weak clue (4) 15 Meal often with soldiers? (9) 16 Waterproof computer (3) 17 Talk about women’s influence (4) 18 Astronomers search for this symphony (3,5 20 Trendy church measure (4) 21 Old doctor visits unusually cool Asian capital (7) 22 Leased property guardians cut grass (6 24 Free BBC’s beginning to disappear (5) 26 Number article in care of monarch (5) 27 Priest heads north to tour small part of Shetland (4)