DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Address English police back in meeting (8) 5 Contemptible type closed artist inside, say (6) 9 Left in rocky cave to mature, crystal’s split (8) 10 Ill will shown by African state church (6) 12 Comfortable home available in Sloane Street (4) 13 Boost resistance in gents unwell at that time (10) 15 Commercial cars and carbon-free farm vehicle for boss (13) 19 It shows position of sailor on deck reading novel (4,9) 23 Inept conservative hack annoyed with editor (4-6) 25 Reduced football club’s incentive (4) 28 Illegally take most of this the day before (6) 29 Good friends retire to control bar directly (4-4) 30 Overweight staff consume large volume of drink (6) 31 Record one Unionist in box concluding speech (8)

DOWN

1 Respectable son’s missing from family tree (6) 2 What’s left after drinking for instance in doctor’s (5) 3 Almost long for bay (4) 4 Contract very important person, by the sound of it (7) 6 Distant cousin called over first (5) 7 Well-to-do men only eating English or German diet (9) 8 Leaves maybe more naive by end of day (8) 11 It helps you see better part of St Helens (4) 14 Arab leader’s note interrupts monarch (4) 15 A fussy Christian avoids one anti-government advocate (9) 16 Kind barrister scratches head (3) 17 Managed to obtain one shower (4) 18 Pedagogue mounted offensive involving Roman statesman (8) 20 Flog boat nonetheless (4) 21 Partly hide where napkin is? (7) 22 Harry changes sides in European capital (6) 24 Fifth Avenue offers shelter from storm (5) 26 Road crash — priest phoned (5) 27 Edges of topaz chipped away with large stone (4)