DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Shot near ground? Study it with care after training (5,6) 9 Stand on island releasing a young animal (4,3) 10 Kitchen wrap can be frustrating (7) 11 Colonist’s drink reduced (3) 12 Fool about with ring? I’m unable to comply (2,3,2) 13 Start off intelligently in the correct way (7) 14 Fix scenery (3) 15 Five points for German city (5) 17 Perhaps watch male in row (5) 18 American leaves Italian square to get local food (5) 20 Assembles what butcher displays, I hear (5) 22 English books are dwindling (3) 24 Quietly use head going over what 8 does first (5,2) 25 Main extract nearly all found in south-east (3,4) 26 Layer in the north (3) 27 Loves penning the lines in play (7) 28 Odd universities control student body a lot initially (7) 29 Gift for wedding guest? That’s easy (5,2,4)

DOWN

1 It allows one two passports designed in such detail with zip (4,11) 2 Make cross in terrible scene (7) 3 Rowdy lad turns over box office (5) 4 Complete a new church statement (9) 5 Mean to keep performing this evening (7) 6 27 lifted mood at river that’s about 20°C (4,11) 7 Traps where half of grub finishes? (1-5) 8 Member of team P26 (6) 16 Heaps more potentially for communication system (9) 18 Favourite part cut? It may include lead (6) 19 Sailor loves wandering free (7) 21 St Paul represented holding a painter’s tool (7) 23 Bishop exaggerated the French courage (6) 25 Poles start to use very strong sort of tobacco (5)

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