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. 15,829, 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 Regular payment from coach over in tropics working (12) 8 Rebuild Salerno, where Joan beat the English (7) 9 Refreshing idea etc. for refreshing drink (4,3) 11 Exclude someone stopping scorer at Murrayfield (4-6) 12 Occupy fellow in hospital perhaps (4) 14 I’d forget jumbled scrap (3,3,2) 16 Woman’s adversary withdraws concerning this (6) 17 Writer exercises before noon (3) 19 Troops twice grab a tense person with good address? (6) 21 Weird mood and atmosphere in bar beginning to drop? (8) 24 Concept of unlimited wide appeal (4) 25 Bachelor trips, nuts about one wedding attendant (10) 27 Head guard’s special request about top N. Korean (3,4) 28 Controversial English grounds (7) 29 Supporter in laundry radically changing mind (12)

DOWN

1 Hit show ‘Betrayal’ (7) 2 A spinner of silk, like Victoria for 40 years? (5,5) 3 Potatoes, say, roughly packed into posh car somehow (4,4) 4 I stay with Mike in the same place (6) 5 Run into upturned bucket (4) 6 Very big Zulu ousts daughter in case (7) 7 Smashing old TV comedy threesome, smug types (5-7) 10 Unexpectedly, lad found seal in trouble (3,2,1,6) 13 Gifted person, officer upset one place’s spirit (6,4) 15 Regularly offered remuneration (3) 18 It’s unnecessary initially sailing among IoW rocks (8) 20 New retailer doesn’t finish workshop (7) 22 Removing group of opera singers (7) 23 A 1,000 packed in employment over in Polish city (6) 26 Somalia overwhelms another African country (4)