DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Start to collect every pic? Bosses do it (4,3,5) 8 Herb’s old wild ass withdrawn (7) 9 Pudding of stewed apricot runs out first of all (7) 11 Like some leaves moving all at once, absorbing energy (10) 12 Some soldiers regularly ruin computers etc. (4) 14 Where people toil hard in Nottinghamshire town (8) 16 Painful experience in gold trade (6) 17 Does it grow in the Ozarks here and there? (3) 19 Film Briton with prince, using odd extracts only (6) 21 Steep gym fee inspires this writer (8) 24 Corruption is back, as it happens (4) 25 Intuitively Victor is really worried about cold (10) 27 Lion is distracted, tackling rare meat (7) 28 Do the same as one couple eating it (7) 29 First female worked with Universal, making these? (7,5)
DOWN
1 Char using carbon, getting less fat (7) 2 Editorial’s up-to-date guidance (10) 3 ‘Cheers’ also entertained a huge number endlessly (6-2) 4 European gallery acquires small property (6) 5 Intensively promote extremely healthy exercise (4) 6 Thump counter furiously (7) 7 Sheepdog, I hear, is staggering, showing nervousness (12) 10 I’ll enter army to be trained as one of these? (12) 13 Proper men call first (10) 15 Mush, whichever way it’s taken (3) 18 Cook follows royal couple carrying one bandana (8) 20 Briefly manage to retain British monarch’s head here (7) 22 A mad king’s holding line, listening intently (3,4) 23 Victor with ring circling bull (6) 26 Attempt to sell fish right away (4)