DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Granny’s short phrase for top player on board (11) 9 Piano maestro’s foolish talk (7) 10 Change direction of engineers twice bottling out (7) 11 Large ducks seek relief here (3) 12 Just time to leave athletic ground (7) 13 Spread scandal about Orcadian maybe topless (7) 14 Detective Constable arrests old GP (3) 15 American paintings separately recalled Sanskrit works (5) 17 Yellowish deposit circling church (5) 18 Someone acting for one mature conservation body (5) 20 Overturn drawer in middle of studio (5) 22 Top-class navy vessel (3) 24 His hut is designed to house unknown dog (4-3) 25 Interest husband and father in ME capital (7) 26 Local Education Authority’s Green Zone (3) 27 Dawn scattered ruins in Kent perhaps (7) 28 Exclusive group’s place to sleep on lake (7) 29 Sails etc. in confused mass block harbour at 90° (5-6)
DOWN
1 Illustrator’s spreading her CGI all over the place (7,8) 2 A duty said to cause strikes (7) 3 Live and prosper, lacking nothing (5) 4 This industry arose controversially on Cape complex (9) 5 Fighter manoeuvres to and fro, knocking out fellow (7) 6 Shell ought to be red, not black, and curved at the top (5-10) 7 Attach extra pages, dropping 9 (6) 8 Some exclude Greek academic achievement (6) 16 Combative old police stopped trade union, then advanced (9) 18 Evaluate energy consumed by a couple of ships (6) 19 Knotted lace, sort of square, can split aglet (7) 21 Sort of clock face masking good appealing quality (7) 23 New unconventional editor appeared drowsy (6) 25 No taxi picked up Irish artist (5)