DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Clean small tool with special hammer (5,3,4) 8 Composer’s place containing filthy lucre (7) 9 Cattle roam over acres to produce milk (7) 11 County town ordered in device for dressing (6,4) 12 Join right row (4) 14 School cereal followed by unknown mush (8) 16 Affected person’s problem baffling university (6) 17 Mostly shade container (3) 19 Drunk found across line, spread out (6) 21 Notice peer staggering round church at 4 (8) 24 Safety nets protect river (4) 25 Coach trains idiot, avoiding 500 for starters (10) 27 Send out aquatic mammal tail first (7) 28 Union creates racket in golf club nearly (7) 29 Fungal problem: after a time, tooth feels wobbly (8,4)

DOWN

1 Score without a penalty (7) 2 Alex O’Brien novel that’s unrelenting (10) 3 Measure of power found briefly in middle of brickworks (8) 4 Mandela’s admiral (6) 5 Temperature dropped in chimney fire (4) 6 It’s a sin to spoil caviare (7) 7 What replaced the capsules over time (5,7) 10 Stupidly Reg erases ROM, hence this on screen? (5,7) 13 Risky skill with shot (5,3,2) 15 It secures code in U.S. (3) 18 Amphibians overrun private urban developments (3,5) 20 Sculpture perhaps almost ready to be set outside (4,3) 22 Club is beginning to tempt satirical writer (7) 23 Cajun restaurant charged with disturbance (6) 26 Feature of galliass heading north (4)

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