DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 15,789, PO BOX 3451, Norwich, NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be postmarked no later than tomorrow. Please make sure you enclose your name and address.

ACROSS

1 What’s heard in Palace of Westminster bars? (7,5) 8 ‘Watch closely!’ I shout to the audience (7) 9 Some soldiers also enrolled in scheme (7) 11 Foreign noble ran across unknown male, rural type (10) 12 Bolt menagerie close to farm (4) 14 Improve look of Dandy provided in Torquay suburbs (8) 16 Pub very nearly cuts function (6) 17 Not many supplying iron with tungsten (3) 19 A large number leave emblem back (6) 21 A lunatic misled marine (8) 24 Bird lurks among hibiscus (4) 25 Official writing desk Scarlatti used now and then (10) 27 Broken cases one kept in bow of ketch, heaving (7) 28 Special work alongside jetty makes you wetter (7) 29 I’m working with richest boy in scientific study (12)

DOWN

1 Break a saucer in bits (7) 2 Plug a small part into a mobile, making adjustment (10) 3 Start to play hockey, having removed thug? (5,3) 4 Theatre set the result of drawing game? (6) 5 State what uncle collected on way up (4) 6 Current run on Danish cash deposit (4,3) 7 Composer tours Spain with most of the faultiest vehicles (5,7) 10 Terminology warning 150 in kind (12) 13 In London, pick up sound of jumbo with this aid? (3,7) 15 Pine falls over in spinney (3) 18 Train skater in West Indies to take up new sport (5-3) 20 Friend in Paris follows half of original paperwork (7) 22 Prove monarch able to be raised within city limits (7) 23 What mothers do, extracting honey from flower (6) 26 On which sound is captured, or some of it (4)