DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Busy man is stopping suffocating addictive habit (5-7) 8 Cook chilli hotel’s rejected? It is not permitted (7) 9 Females hug youth leader in hall, rowdy rugby player (3,4) 11 Doctor Marlowe wasted day in fantasy land (5,5) 12 Cease effort to seize back payments (4) 14 Solicitor’s work complicates deals with a company (8) 16 Interpret talk in film, forgetting it’s faint (6) 17 Where to put TV dinner and drink? (3) 19 Only partially covered? Buy some shares perhaps (6) 21 In which to stay over on the Avon or Wash? (8) 24 Feel jealous of European sailors avoiding area (4) 25 Order soldier to become camp boss (10) 27 By end of July I had recipe for tongue (7) 28 Teacher returns fish and other food (7) 29 Hide, say, dicky heart during poor treatment in spa (12)

DOWN

1 Doctor cares about students and visitors (7) 2 Succeed in training slim chap to control business (10) 3 Imaginary number, zero in Latin format (8) 4 Dull fellows carried in cross (6) 5 Skye annoyed islands elsewhere (4) 6 Those most closely related live in cosy home (7) 7 How spiteful types act, very suggestively avoiding answer (12) 10 She brings up issue from the store by mistake (6,6) 13 Auntie has a terribly controversial way to go (10) 15 Haul up rotten fish (3) 18 Chum met lunatic going round touching big plant (4,4) 20 I cut volumes for no good reason in a brilliant way (7) 22 Pray here for a Conservative (not loudly) (7) 23 Lid which covers chamber pot the wrong way round (3,3) 26 Raise bar for story-teller (4)

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