DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
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SOLUTION TO PRIZE CROSSWORD No 15,802: ACROSS: 1 Loud-mouthed. 9 Satisfy. 10 Problem. 11 Boo. 12 Corsage. 13 Palaver. 14 Owl. 15 Expel. 17 Morse. 18 Ochre. 20 Erred. 22 Hob. 24 Bengali. 25 Nosegay. 26 Shy. 27 Tbilisi. 28 Aqueous. 29 Green papers. DOWN: 1 Lateral thinking. 2 Upstage. 3 Maybe. 4 Unpopular. 5 Hoodlum. 6 Deliver the goods. 7 Psycho. 8 Emerge. 16 Precision. 18 Orbits. 19 Evasive. 21 Dispute. 23 Boyish. 25 Nyala. DAILY MAIL New Cryptic Crosswords — pit your wits against 100 of the trickiest cryptic puzzles ever to appear in your favourite paper. This book provides the ideal way to warm up your grey matter for a day’s work, or wind down and relax during those rare spare moments. Available from the Daily Mail Book Shop, call 0844 571 0640 or visit www.mailbookshop.co.uk. P&P is free on orders over £15. ACROSS
6 Subject that’s no longer relevant (7,7) 9 Local star welcomes drink, part of cold course (3,3) 10 Bank has brought in very little money of late (8) 11 Local character tours Crete, swimming and suchlike (8) 13 Attempts to obtain right films (6) 15 Over the moon, told radical to leave (6) 17 Sci-fi author returns travel permit doctor sent in (6) 19 Choose Spanish article to split breakaway group (6) 20 Forecast chopper should be fixed by end of July (8) 22 Endlessly persevere in order to stop the rot? (8) 24 Two containers or one (3,3) 26 Yell, perhaps, for these equines (8,6)
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1 Three car-makers ruined consumer survey (6,8) 2 Mark statuette, scrubbing top (4) 3 Dubliner attends church gathering of medium appeal? (6) 4 Touring Ireland, cricket club exploits round arenas (8) 5 Lay out fruits in ascending order (4) 7 Deposit sailors (6) 8 Part of sentence may begin with that (8,6) 12 Render a service collecting excise (5) 14 Sound from tuba perhaps lacking a lot of energy (5) 16 Get outside by drilling nonstop (8) 18 Spanish cardinal hosts a banquet (6) 21 There’s not much time during operation for choice (6) 23 Locate landmark for audience (4) 25 Seize capital in the Netherlands (4)