DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Partners do this in county hotel a little (7) 5 Ruin Beachy Head beacon (6) 9 Depart on foot, avoiding a path (7) 10 Allowed into pigeon house, she wrote Gigi (7) 11 Return Prince Harry’s note (3) 12 Tuber and old rubbish found in Darling river (5,6) 13 Gem, top-of-the-range, set in ring (5) 14 He paid poor European church for helmet, say (9) 16 Where all the animals were, about 500, unaware (2,3,4) 17 Excessively restricting a book that’s proscribed (5) 19 Team achieves possibly undesirable results (4,7) 22 Model Conservative ejects Republican (3) 23 Complete conserving Arab clipper (7) 24 Strips of pasta, old ones, tangled up (7) 26 Announced approval for climb (6) 27 Rumour supplied by grass involving auditors (7)

DOWN

1 Perhaps Ayrshire Beer set up plant (7) 2 She’s a lefthander, possibly showing lack of commitment (4-11) 3 Old weapon made from half of bark? (3) 4 Plant note about short song in church (5) 5 Change one’s mind and support number (9) 6 Blockhouse initially is good place to go (5) 7 Lots thaw better curled up with love — or these (3-5,7) 8 Far-off meteor broke up (6) 12 Ointment left in bar (5) 14 How divers enter pool without thinking (4,5) 15 Golfer does this first in Turnberry in places (5) 16 Forcefully demand twin sister’s portion (6) 18 Waste donkey’s years without Karen, making long trip (7) 20 First of young found in big lake nest (5) 21 Top commander’s beginning to hope for certainty (5) 25 A helping of avocado or tuberous plant (3)

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