DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 BBC hack seen moving supporters of most MPs (4,7) 9 Play music about a European – it’s not heavy metal (7) 10 Trick performed while cycling round middle of Peel (7) 11 Stepfathers? (3) 12 Plants Tolkien’s monsters keep concealed (7) 13 Offend female in frizzy hairdo at National Theatre (7) 14 Avoid short downhill runner (3) 15 I’m replacing amateur in game to make easy putt (5) 17 Italy perplexed non-clerical people (5) 18 A number appreciate information technology (5) 20 Gulf state’s cold, some might say (5) 22 Cheeky child beginning to irritate representative (3) 24 Private tucked into cheese and chocolate cake (7) 25 Milk container businesses get barrel back (7) 26 Your old Herb misses me (3) 27 Scrap strange people by end of August (7) 28 Captain’s worried, having lost one boat’s revolver (7) 29 He leaves here demented, taken back by lender (11)

DOWN

1 Cleaning agent who bred clean pig? That’s bizarre (9,6) 2 Upper limit closing, so I heard (7) 3 Coach carries redcap and sleeping policemen (5) 4 Shopkeeper went abroad with Agnes (9) 5 He fled in disarray round university, taking notice (7) 6 Big-headed Estonian lied, confused about Dandy (4-11) 7 Killer whale flips ship from one side to the other (6) 8 Guard small gate (6) 16 Sculptor’s models that Parisian put in masks (9) 18 Posh girl who joined society to run for someone in red (6) 19 A number drink around start of evening to get tight (5,2) 21 Chef’s instructions concerning spice misplaced (7) 23 Paint sprayed on a film (6) 25 Fancy cleric restricting eco-friendly transport! (5)