DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

NO 15,424

ACROSS 1 Costs cover new royals (7) 5 Nottingham side delay everyone leaving at the end (6) 9 Seamen swim round bow of ship as one (2,5) 10 Regret concealing constant income (7) 11 Make public appearance (3) 12 Worker in tube that’s pulled through after puffing (4,7) 13 Military exercises are boring (5) 14 Impetuous novelist’s behind trick (9) 16 Client very nearly ransacked one of two chambers (9) 17 Newton perhaps is about to suppress articles (5) 19 Want place to hide the French embroidery (11) 22 Friend regularly gives assistance to swimmer (3) 23 It’s diabolical in South America and it can spread (7) 24 Count a large topclass diamond, say, on reflection (7) 26 Soldiers back game, holding ring (6) 27 Someone who votes for prince once in Germany (7) DOWN 1 Horse that is in lead failed occasionally (7) 2 Irish anemometer replaced element in tank (9,6) 3 Firm small lettuce (3) 4 I do this at night when small covering is pulled up (5) 5 What mortgagees may do for English residential road (9) 6 Sketch show always pops up around university (5) 7 Big rift in U.S. disrupts RAF’s annual dates (3,7,5) 8 Barney’s drunk in local (6) 12 Sort of bear up during epidural operation (5) 14 Front forwards make preparations to reduce lines (4,5) 15 Lift one in crowd (5) 16 Put on shiny coat, run away and disappear (6) 18 Mythical cross showing gold in middle reduced (7) 20 It can be hard to pick up filling open sandwiches (5) 21 Vin Diesel controls private record company (5) 25 Get older bangle every so often (3)