DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

NO 15537

ACROSS

1 Bed ruins woven hair extension (8) 5 Recall insane request for patterned material (6) 9 Terrible male band breaks up (8) 10 Meat dish consumed by Hilton guests (6) 12 Relax and stand for artist endlessly (4) 13 Put out eight in U.S. misbehaving around 10 (10) 15 Glibness, by implication? It has pros and cons (5, 8) 19 Contentious blend of mature vintage (13) 23 Watch record that’s thrown at motorcade (6, 4) 25 Group of commandos fired back with this (4) 28 Fight amateur wearing neckwear the wrong way round (6) 29 Time up to 12 for one busy performing (8) 30 Wet nurse in the past drank rum (6) 31 U.S. lawyer and politician head feature of 30 (8)

DOWN

1 Depress 30 with change of character (6) 2 Refuse tips in Depression (5) 3 Place of celebrated vicar’s trumpet? (4) 4 Grass over U.S. city cross at 12 (7) 6 A diary about Norway for company (5) 7 Fallen angels gathering here in Paris become English (9) 8 King with pair of English horses badly needs such boots? (4-4) 11 Burn gridiron with no cover (4) 14 Test European unknown in 29 (4) 15 Journal, one with a new director, rings about easy solution (5, 4) 16 Occasionally built piece (3) 17 Joint needs a bit of refurbishing (4) 18 Actors on holiday start to search for discarded items (4, 4) 20 Observe religious books in north-east (4) 21 Strange aroma masks acidity in old vessel (7) 22 Periods in ring? Perhaps 25 (6) 24 Eliminate some camera settings (5) 26 Big deer, badtempereda, avoiding river (5) 27 What swimmer may find stuck in snorkel perhaps (4)

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