DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Best ever actor’s source of music (6,6) 8 After short month Poles hold a series of services (7) 9 Hampton’s novel ‘The Ghost’ (7) 11 Promise a Yankee to keep sovereign from 9 to 5? (7,3) 12 You’ll probably find it in hospital cupboard (4) 14 Behaved like an ass making note about English fruit (3-5) 16 Odd pair circle priory walls to find old documents (6) 17 Bogus theologian entertains Unionist (3) 19 Poem Tennyson edited heartlessly? (6) 21 What viewer uses to watch play (8) 24 Female loses weight in Arab country (4) 25 Chairman’s drunk old sweet liqueur (10) 27 Beryl called regularly after soldiers returned (7) 28 First sign (7) 29 Rebuilt police schools lack height for current monitor (12)

DOWN

1 I think a lot of absorbing daydream (7) 2 Frank dined with first of successful applicants (10) 3 Wrote 28s again and left (8) 4 Well-liked but not top-class tree (6) 5 Slightly open a pot (4) 6 Tay sure to be churned up where it reaches the sea (7) 7 Instruction to musicians to understand the facts (4,3,5) 10 Corrupt schoolmate steals modern lathes, for instance (7,5) 13 Opera composer nearly spiking top mafioso’s coffee (10) 15 Philip, say, avoids king as expected (3) 18 Varying volumes of music, lots turning up in new disc (8) 20 Northern senate surprisingly puts in order (7) 22 Large building required if I centralise banks (7) 23 Malicious rumours about missing footwear (6) 26 Transport volunteers and hockey team (4)

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