DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Income from jewellery items new for Republican (8) 5 Faulty U.S. bank accepts regulation (6) 9 Ignore ground next to a large district (8) 10 Europeans defend northern spirit agent (6) 12 Means to enter house in the Isle of Man (4) 13 One of those dressed in fancy saris on flight? (3,7) 15 Grasp deal (13) 19 Credentials I’d pack around body (8,5) 23 Foreign exchange with plenty of say (3,7) 25 Hands back trade (4) 28 Trip round Hungary by cross enigmatic person (6) 29 Old British hero entertains 6 in stupor (8) 30 Longing to tackle Romeo, forgetting lines (6) 31 Steer game Blues won here (8)

DOWN

1 Joyful exclamation: ‘Spain and UK are beaten!’ (6) 2 Polish unknown inspires German game (5) 3 Chair one boxing club (4) 4 A slow mover, surprisingly gracile (7) 6 Joins course by the seaside (5) 7 Some fabricating while site’s under development (5,4) 8 Badminton event in poorly grassed centre of arena (8) 11 Talk about item in milliner’s (4) 14 Make changes to ‘The Rising Sea’ (4) 15 Find extremely lonely 26 (9) 16 Where sow tends young primarily (3) 17 Standard style of architecture a knight overlooked (4) 18 Fellows employed by detective spread out (8) 20 My book is sent here (4) 21 To get valves Spooner rings from here (4,3) 22 Marine animal’s unpleasant smell in Kent perhaps (6) 24 Gas, variable new one that’s shown up (5) 26 Strange one pulled up outside (5) 27 Secure right grade (4)

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