DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Quick way to find press? (5,6) 9 U.S. city teenagers ignoring hospital plans (7) 10 Good piano (7) 11 Twitch in odd places (3) 12 Very very badly (7) 13 Possibly the ale at the bottom of the cup? (7) 14 Role that lacks an introduction (3) 15 Obviously a hood is masking hooligan (5) 17 Image left over at end of catalogue (5) 18 Live with wooded valley all around (5) 20 Private Victor loses his head (5) 22 Uniform reduced the day before (3) 24 Virginia enters underwear party, showing off (7) 25 Editor withdrawing resources is humiliating (7) 26 Even fragments of fleece provide shelter (3) 27 Old, bald, eccentric? Yes (7) 28 Umbrella made of black spare film (7) 29 When all square, a string irritated Venus (7,4)

DOWN

1 Clever old fellows with the stock suddenly lose it (3,3,3,6) 2 Colleague supports English queen to the same extent (7) 3 Grumpy Yankee follows big game (5) 4 Try landing (9) 5 Hemingway keeps one committed (7) 6 Circus performer’s tense, wielding real power over king (9,6) 7 Left lying in sand, turn pale (6) 8 Stage exercises in vast area of grassland (6) 16 Home Office head stops just over 100 ordinary folk (3,6) 18 Girl who comes out to run for person in red (6) 19 Cause of loss of water in e.g. a lake potentially (7) 21 Trace man trained to fill hole (7) 23 Substitute group of travellers at Zeebrugge (6) 25 Remove defects from revised budget cut (5)