DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Back problem the reason for poor reproduction? (7,4) 9 Protective wall section guarding gorilla, say (7) 10 One writer drinks rare bitter (7) 11 Whip? About time (3) 12 Not much cash where Brontës lived — pence for wife (7) 13 He doesn’t possess much port or tequila initially (4-3) 14 Regularly stroke part of foot (3) 15 Cryptic solver ignoring 5? He doesn’t win (5) 17 Grahame character’s bad-tempered (5) 18 Coppers restraining fellows with these (5) 20 Small fish more expensive for English breakfast? (3-2) 22 Rocks creating road hazard (3) 24 ‘An Ideal Husband’ has power to impress bishop (2,5) 25 Mournful version of Gaelic captivating European (7) 26 Desire foreign capital (3) 27 Tediously continue nursing old cavalryman (7) 28 Uninterrupted, new and old Poles work, saving time (7) 29 Cast are right to grab kit that doesn’t need much pulling (4,7)

DOWN

1 Short of money, RAF prospects had dissipated (8,3,4) 2 Endanger one politician raising cash in Rome once (7) 3 Attempt to sell ground (5) 4 Briefly ring the army, cancelling a current treatment (9) 5 I shelter round summit of Everest and freeze (3,4) 6 May supporter bin item, shredded, in box? (7,8) 7 Skier’s result? (6) 8 Absentminded son, spiteful (6) 16 Extraordinary feats over river needing this? (6,3) 18 Buffalo Bill accepting this writer’s light work (6) 19 Group in class ignoring ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’? (7) 21 Pianoforte making over nine grand in old German money (7) 23 Bar piece of work king rejected (6) 25 Listlessness somehow continues without cost (5)

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