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. 15,996, 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 Hurt one in scrum tackling posh foolhardy type (5-6) 9 Power supplier’s name got confused (7) 10 Someone with no faith in Castro? (7) 11 Schoolboys in class originally quoted accurately (3) 12 Stupid name associated with a single flower (7) 13 Sweet aromatic umbellifer last to be removed (7) 14 English port or whiskey? (3) 15 Mount stuff in metal (5) 17 Avoiding colonist, African animals run away (5) 18 Steep small river (5) 20 Equine swallowed by chasm (5) 22 Instrument hasn’t got a container (3) 24 Margaret’s protecting new boat’s source of fuel (4,3) 25 State blocks devious servitude (7) 26 Peugeot regularly exhibits a sense of self-esteem (3) 27 Unspeakable man’s enrolling in Open University (7) 28 Pets perform good circles running round (7) 29 Invalid new uni students dodge touring North Dakota (4,3,4)
DOWN
1 System for training the upper classes? (6,9) 2 Confidently recite ‘Dance cancelled’ (4,3) 3 American name for animal described by Immanuel Kant (5) 4 Writer in chancery unravelled dishonesty (9) 5 EU free suspect, jailing Gulf asylum seeker (7) 6 Where anxious drivers tend to be moderate? (6-2-3-4) 7 Undermine independent married couple (6) 8 Device to protect plant is old hat (6) 16 Asian ordered to nurse a wounded leg gets pain relief (9) 18 Poet caught in WhatsApp hoax (6) 19 Involve English medic, 50, touring Ireland briefly (7) 21 Drive away to collect current cleaner (7) 23 Juvenile Yankee, one impressed by rubbish (6) 25 Firm marketed around India (5)