DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Grooming option for pet that exerts a firm grip? (7,4) 9 Like paper for drawers maybe without inner layer (7) 10 Enlists in functions at university, I hear (5,2) 11 Yank’s back to clean out fish (3) 12 Shutdown: 150 certain to obtain nothing (7) 13 Whiter, upset, she loses heart, showing another decline (7) 14 Back part of 13 for friend (3) 15 Summarise charge involving English clubs (5) 17 Longs to forget European tales (5) 18 Heads of LEAs offer grant in complex branch of philosophy (5) 20 Movement by cellist completed by Bob (2-3) 22 Annoy Kelvin leaving front of church in Aberdeen (3) 24 What do you do without a map in Split? (3,4) 25 Remedy once for malaria, one of five in Spain (7) 26 No good abandoning inexperienced solver (3) 27 Illusion bewildering Archimedes for the most part (7) 28 Free from sin, a bishop loves working (7) 29 Pro and I sang fragments, accompanied on these? (5,6)

DOWN

1 Clap after this escape in NW town with cool German? (4,2,9) 2 Fatigue comes from neurological failing, not E coli (7) 3 Sidestep vehicle (5) 4 Where top grub gets cooked when sent in? (9) 5 Two supporters within the law (7) 6 Forms of verb Patricia spelt wrongly in psalm (4,11) 7 Part of wheel damaged cab Henry finished sealing (6) 8 Pressure group in America is disturbing (6) 16 Pursue London police in quad (9) 18 What’s left in city suburbs after violent gale (6) 19 Carole needs treatment, having caught hospital disease (7) 21 Christian festival with eccentric local star (7) 23 Take another sneaky look over zoo worker? (6) 25 Who in Paris imports arsenic, apparently? (5)

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