DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
NO 15766
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SOLUTION TO PRIZE CROSSWORD No 15,763: ACROSS: 1 Gainsay. 5 Disown. 9 Inquiry. 10 Neutral. 11 Lei. 12 Sustainable. 13 Doily. 14 Woebegone. 16 Priceless. 17 Endue. 19 Overexerted. 22 Due. 23 Kneecap. 24 Parvenu. 26 Astern. 27 Riposte. DOWN: 1 Grilled. 2 Inquisitiveness. 3 Ski. 4 Yo-yos. 5 Dungarees. 6 Spurn. 7 Warmbloodedness. 8 Sleeve. 12 Style. 14 Whereupon. 15 Emend. 16 Plonks. 18 Execute. 20 Emcee. 21 Taper. 25 Rep. DAILY MAIL New Cryptic Crosswords — pit your wits against 100 of the trickiest cryptic puzzles ever to appear in your favourite paper. This book provides the ideal way to warm up your grey matter for a day’s work, or wind down and relax during those rare spare moments. Available from the Daily Mail Book Shop, call 0844 571 0640 or visit www.mailbookshop.co.uk . P&P free on orders over £15.
ACROSS
1 Decline county act (8) 5 Modest church teas prepared (6) 9 Sound of thunder won’t upset prosperous place (4,4) 10 Lack of food is much greater around north (6) 12 Print error found in dirty postcard (4) 13 Court order one in residence to be transported (6,4) 15 Fancy gold and blue advanced energy insulation (6,7) 19 Reg backed salesman worried about writer’s complaint (6,7) 23 Old cricket club with posh paved area and new field (10) 25 Try exiting search engine and check out (4) 28 Parched, going without sun for days in June (6) 29 Celeb was screening restricted film (4,4) 30 Irish keen to acquire woman’s fruit (6) 31 Trample path, so to speak, to reach vegetable (8)
DOWN
1 Discuss English book during meeting (6) 2 Welsh band’s cry of delight (5) 3 Gallery’s condition after removing roof (4) 4 Unprocessed timber gets harsh treatment (3,4) 6 He guards old American accommodation (5) 7 Erect quarters providin modern soldier’s means (9) 8 Eccentric grannies profi from shares maybe (8) 11 Dress up and swagger (4) 14 Big instrument neighbour brought up (4) 15 Setter’s supporting awful court order (9) 16 25 finally investigate old article (3) 17 Kiss during drink in bar (4) 18 Sceptical Inca got worried about Spanish leader (8) 20 Writer’s extremely thorough but unlikely story (4) 21 Messenger in street arrested by a European (7) 22 In France, I mainly fly – a one of this group? (3,3) 24 Favourite monarch, 21 (5) 26 Gulls usually and not owls principally leave this (5) 27 Regularly turf out leftwinger (4)