DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Brave person has this immature dark colour (6,5) 9 It eases congestion in hospital facing real shambles (7) 10 Book another time, obtaining rare deal (7) 11 Occasionally crude wooden item used to hit ball (3) 12 Live at hotel around northeast, lower down (7) 13 Second publication concerning children (7) 14 Girl doesn’t finish boring routine (3) 15 Author’s final words given voice to some extent (5) 17 Soldier fetched leg of lamb (5) 18 Quietly direct what barristers may do (5) 20 Doctor’s going round, say, grounds (5) 22 Where to dump rubbish? Mine’s sent back (3) 24 Is his art misanthropic, as society admits? (7) 25 Feared beginning to dismantle hoarding in grass (7) 26 Regularly stroke part of foot (3) 27 Condition in which a name’s confused, one gathered (7) 28 Irish girl once ordered to guard centre of gallery (7) 29 Opinion produces undesirable consequences (4,7)

DOWN

1 Secretly responsible for the tantrums? (6,3,6) 2 I’ll get a new job on arable farm (7) 3 Tree’s large curved structure (5) 4 Grand Scottish city, some say, supplies cloth (9) 5 Making a mistake involving a personal adornment (7) 6 NHS resident taking ages to resolve eye problem (4-11) 7 Logs, a thousand blocking river (6) 8 Plan camping? (6) 16 Recording version of a TV episode is banned, I assumed (9) 18 Tree that’s liked by many university removed (6) 19 Unemployed South American stopped working outside (7) 21 English students in shed reduced varnish (7) 23 Nit-picker and writer saves lawyer time (6) 25 Met up for coffee (5)

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