DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Cold Asiatic winds bring back pain (8) 5 Start off moral tale that’s suitable for cropping (6) 9 Oil plant touching best clothes (8) 10 Stop a court defending businesses (6) 12 Female or male pupils (4) 13 Hotel unit accommodates New Labour, just (10) 15 Bull she adored broke bone (8,5) 19 Part of ship for crew and a pack editor introduced (9,4) 23 I’d put tee in ground, showing lack of skill (10) 25 Go and get missing leader to score (4) 28 Long essay? She’s struggling with it (6) 29 Arsenal boss’s affair captivating king and queen (8) 30 Deny article’s taken from controversial feature (6) 31 Ride here in series with a youth leader (5,3)
DOWN
1 What machine-guns do succeeded after tanks (6) 2 Deduce number escaping from big fire (5) 3 Container smelt bad when top’s removed (4) 4 Pass over a couple of rivers – it saves petrol (7) 6 Athlete runs round one (5) 7 BBC look at eccentric Polish expert? (9) 8 Respected European joins up with journalist (8) 11 Cupola’s clean, more or less (4) 14 Select very old note (4) 15 One fasted, sadly unable to take in anything (5-4) 16 Useless fellow in US doesn’t finish (3) 17 Butcher initially raised price for one thing he sells (4) 18 Southern playwright tackles large piece (8) 20 Amateur sorted out vehicle (4) 21 Foreign articles extremely lovely, past their prime (7) 22 Fruit that’s dear in Paris on line (6) 24 Surprise in story – fool saves son (5) 26 It’s worth changing cast (5) 27 Scotch fencer uses it (4)