DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 View troops in Central American country (8) 5 Coach Arab to recruit right accountant (6) 9 Not many managed to secure one element (8) 10 Old coin somewhere in west Africa (6) 12 Head of state was in the front toboggan (4) 13 Succeed in persuading slim chap to tour county (10) 15 Crime is enough possibly to jail crooked baker (13) 19 Cool writer’s smart, editing a blurb with energy (13) 23 I was down by rocks, making projections to house (3, 7) 25 Church accepts a small change (4) 28 Line on map upsetting Channel Islands harbour (6) 29 Poison extracted from a protein (8) 30 Odd Irish politician I ignored as not much of a catch (6) 31 Live radio shows on ship broadcast across northeast (5-3)

DOWN

1 Speak highly of quiet lift (6) 2 Gunpowder ingredient? Province about to import tons (5) 3 Vagrant has no time at first for bank (4) 4 Roman à clef captures slave’s restraint (7) 6 Take over American insurance company on the up (5) 7 Arranged visit seen as delicate (9) 8 Such drivers go so hard all over the place (4, 4) 11 Trip to old city (4) 14 Vibration in engine partly interrupts climbing (4) 15 Time for cheap drink program unknown in hotels or around uni (5, 4) 16 Polish up drill (3) 17 Bunch of uppity yobs arrested for breaking this? (4) 18 Best idea remedied complaint (8) 20 Release cook after middle of June (4) 21 Black and white bust sits over college entrance (7) 22 Toast is uplifting (6) 24 Dialect is described in old manuscript originally (5) 26 Liberal taken in by excellent excuse (5) 27 Lecturer tours Welsh county (4)

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