DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Purloin adult books in jail (7) 5 To get installed it needs amazingly deft handling (6) 9 Maestro Simon King’s pit viper (7) 10 Cricket terms exceed time limit (7) 11 Trendy name for pub (3) 12 Savagely chop holly left and right for its pigment (11) 13 Bean counter impressed by firm’s bean plant (5) 14 Nuggets here in Grieg overture by Mike (musician) (9) 16 Secretion of pineal gland in Latino men curiously (9) 17 Carried Arab out and sobbed (5) 19 Unthinking Irish broadcaster stops during lead-up to Xmas (11) 22 Not as many shorn sheep (3) 23 Final violent demonstration lacking food quota (7) 24 They do some casting and run into corners (7) 26 It’s not just amusements that don’t open (6) 27 Nearly identical to radius in great circle (7)
DOWN 1 Roughly help RAC turn over man with heart disease (7) 2 Can’t dig on arable ground? You can here (9,6) 3 A student left everything (3) 4 Register for learning about touring Norway (5) 5 Female WC managed to retain place in layout (5,4) 6 Idiot wept uncontrollably about end of affair (5) 7 Going to bed at 8 may result in smaller pension (5,10) 8 A French boy runs round college with nothing on (6) 12 Bring on board work in place of retirement (2-3) 14 Power source brings lots of species to heart of Paris (9) 15 Feature expert in paper (5) 16 Crew secure help for girl (6) 18 Speech to Queen without notice? It may be shelved (7) 20 Flower that’s held under the chin (5) 21 Give the slip to first lady hugging a daughter (5) 25 Section of jungle upset animal (3)