DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Popular spy carries uranium, heading this way (7) 5 Leave group on holiday (3,3) 9 Help gullible type, say (7) 10 Authorise bird to enter Henley, stripped (7) 11 Old man’s step (3) 12 Early radios used by palace cliques? (7,4) 13 US lawyer goes over stuff, creating excitement (5) 14 Cut price carnations outside? They’re mildly irritating (9) 16 In tiny flat, Labour leader’s getting stuck into beer (9) 17 Thump unruly brother without ruler (5) 19 After church, Mildred managed to hire trendy creche worker (11) 22 What some do if they’re sad or blue primarily? (3) 23 Most are amazed when he’s on the podium (7) 24 Injuries damage metacarpus, not pec (7) 26 Perhaps mislaid butt container husband left (6) 27 Not all phone H&S emergency team leaders (7)

DOWN

1 Retro sauce is not interesting at first, it’s bland (7) 2 Support car c lubs, annoying passengers (4-4,7) 3 Strange “aircraft” you forget about? (3) 4 Tidy compound across river that needs cleaning (5) 5 Bribe with small, very small, note (not new) (9) 6 Write off sum (5) 7 Following Mrs. Thatcher is a silly man in red (6,9) 8 Detects there are 5 of these (6) 12 Mammal in Channel Islands eating cereal plant (5) 14 £25 secures a neat bequest (9) 15 It spins round and round (5) 16 Insect crossed river and grew (6) 18 Change bib, say, on time – 19s do it (7) 20 Put off deciding to abandon mining (5) 21 Dump land in water (5) 25 A little bit of barley included in mulligatawny (3)

NO 15010 PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 15,010, PO BOX 3451, Norwich, NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be postma