DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Incompatible couple nearly fail to catch game (8) 5 Wimpish English fellow attends garden party (6) 9 Get pally with refined cultivated bachelor initially (8) 10 Complete Formula One, backing Yank (4,2) 12 Lake and river attraction (4) 13 Part of tract: ‘USA Hopes Go Astray’ (10) 15 Haphazard, windy and slippery slope (6-7) 19 10 here, repairing rotten oil taps (6,7) 23 Musical gathering’s a laugh with European au pair (10) 25 Withdraw current star (4) 28 Most important short introduction (4-2) 29 Popular trio played, interrupting my smaller group (8) 30 Keep quiet about questionable flat (6) 31 Ride over a mile to find northern plant (8)
DOWN
1 Phone port in Alabama (6) 2 Regular members of staff yearn to be more secure (5) 3 Uplifting atmosphere following a song (4) 4 Allow one CD to be played in church (7) 6 Trust’s large hospital possesses one (5) 7 Shepherd in the glen put in the picture (9) 8 Big exhibition certain to get coverage (8) 11 Demise of large, very large, society . . . (4) 14 . . . a section of Royal Society as well (4) 15 A top tooth needing treatment? It’s a delicate matter (3,6) 16 Go off climbing hill (3) 17 Leave cricket team in centre of Cape Town (4) 18 The Spanish abandon hopelessly bad security features (8) 20 Visit source of Scottish river (4) 21 Some accept night in Paris as regular payment (7) 22 Nancy goes off to tour old gorge (6) 24 Bull caught in rising tide (5) 26 Analgesic, mixed with crusts, can be scrumptious (5) 27 Implement left under 14 (4)