DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Missed refined extremely tidy office in Euston (4,8) 8 Biker and minor celebrities entertain yacht club (7) 9 Get ready to fence English forest mostly (2,5) 11 Begin commercials about parking sites used by NASA (6,4) 12 Vegetable used in cock-a-leekie? Yes and no (4) 14 Unstable keel’s not upset framework (8) 16 Candle-holder prisoner installed in small church (6) 17 Request book, say (3) 19 Part of branch order that’s weighed leaving port (6) 21 Comic performing drunk in Orient Express carriage? (5-3) 24 Rank of someone who joins up (4) 25 Measure of journalist’s support in Switzerland (6,4) 27 Sudden desire to set a limit on cereal (7) 28 Level out leaves in rice dish I picked out (7) 29 It’s seen in awful crude dance that’s not authorised (12)

DOWN

1 Give address to European court during appeal (7) 2 Made to work with it (8,2) 3 House patient model’s dishonest activity (3-2,3) 4 Char finished party (6) 5 Advantage enjoyed by landed gentry (4) 6 Her Majesty’s welcomed in school ground (7) 7 Part of Salford in charge of storing wine for priest (12) 10 The Spanish still travel round horses’ last ditch (8,4) 13 Book-keeper’s story about function (10) 15 Boil up mint (3) 18 Posh politician looked baffled, having been swindled (8) 20 Demean each comic writer (7) 22 Oil supplier in Leeds collapsed (7) 23 Problem baffling university affected individual (6) 26 Metal embedded in quartz in conglomerate (4)

PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 15,924, 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.SOLUTION TO PRIZE CROSSWORD No 15,921: ACROSS: 1 Uxorious. 5 Teapot. 9 Sri Lanka. 10 Toledo. 12 Fort. 13 Amanuensis. 15 Mountain chain. 19 Dead reckoning. 23 Bowdlerise. 25 Isle. 28 Loiter. 29 Well-worn. 30 Skewer. 31 Terminus. DOWN: 1 Unsafe. 2 Osier. 3 Imam. 4 Unkempt. 6 Elope. 7 Press-gang. 8 Thousand. 11 Anti. 14 Purr. 15 Meanwhile. 16 Ark. 17 Chin. 18 Oddballs. 20 Curb. 21 Obscene. 22 Tennis. 24 Liege. 26 Spoon. 27 Slam.