DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Run small Badger round red and mark rather donkey (8) 5 pursuing runner Talk anticipated briefly fast (6) 9 about controversial one goal (8) 10 Holst initially or given Mahler American tax back (6) 12 Old PM’s English study (4) 13 Get a new goalie as key guard? (10) 15 Darling and others acquire money, e.g. silver (8,5) 19 Ned twice ineptly danced alone (13) 23 Miserly eccentric neurosurgeon or not? (10) 25 Almost perfect scheme (4) 28 Wool from orangoutang or alpaca, goat or rabbit (6) 29 Call staff about a bypass (4,4) 30 Small hole in small island, I hear (6) 31 Block precept covering males (8)

DOWN

1 Gifted cast behave nervously (6) 2 Remove article in old Irish (5) 3 Reserve item on shelf (4) 4 Upright chap in shabby suit giving big wave (7) 6 Swear at coach in A&E (5) 7 Dislike a pint drunk at Hackney Arms (9) 8 Cut off cathedral city to a serious extent (8) 11 First of unemployed picked up list of courses (4) 14 Notice phosphorous leak (4) 15 Very keen to enter directly after gym teacher (9) 16 Former leader leaves a 15 Across (3) 17 Little child’s strength picked up (4) 18 Reproduce a Glasgow chimney erected in position (8) 20 Standard choice of characters central to gunmen (4) 21 The Spanish enrol about 4 like the Scarlet Pimpernel? (7) 22 Drop round with robber (6) 24 Northern river skirts southern harbour (5) 26 Forced peace lover to control resistance (5) 27 Horrible figure interrupting progress (4)

No 15,692 PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 15,692, PO BOX 3451, Norwich, NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be postmarked...