DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

No 15,811

PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 15,811, PO BOX 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be postmarked no later than tomorrow. Please make sure you enclose your name and address.

SOLUTION TO PRIZE CROSSWORD No 15,808: ACROSS: 1 Licence. 5 Codify. 9 Militia. 10 Recluse. 11 Ski. 12 Orthopaedic. 13 Maize. 14 Anchorman. 16 Pineapple. 17 Dingy. 19 Emotionally. 22 Ill. 23 Sirocco. 24 Nominal. 26 Hebron. 27 Earplug. DOWN: 1 Lump sum. 2 Collision course. 3 Nut. 4 Enact. 5 Cartouche. 6 Dacha. 7 Four-dimensional. 8 Beacon. 12 Omega. 14 Alpenhorn. 15 Oddly. 16 Please. 18 Yule log. 20 Incur. 21 Lance. 25 Mar.

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ACROSS

1 Mounted display in grassed ground about middle of arena (8) 5 Smoke that surrounds the sun (6) 9 Marine creature moves ashore in southeast (8) 10 Look, university fellow appears in this novel (6) 12 Ceremony OK on radio (4) 13 Get a trained goalie as key person? (10) 15 How chess opponents are described in print (5,3,5) 19 Pity clearing trees involves small charge (6,7) 23 Unproductive unit holding scruffy fur nearly full (10) 25 Blackberry? Yes and no (4) 28 Eat for fun, by the sound of it (6) 29 Term a POW invented for parasite (8) 30 Write music number beside gallery (6) 31 One model played accordion (8)

DOWN

1 Leave course, disheartened (6) 2 Praise former officer controlling area (5) 3 Wastrel gambols about, ignoring ‘Good Morning’ (4) 4 Government query about mother’s respirator (3,4) 6 Brownish sample taken from loch reeked (5) 7 Children bound to follow old fellows (9) 8 Private eye probes a sign: ‘Combs made here’ (8) 11 Some make enemies bitter (4) 14 Heartless greeting, like 5 perhaps (4) 15 Full cast enters bay for gory spectacle (9) 16 Card hole-in-one (3) 17 Stand by comedian suppressing article (4) 18 Outburst of sound rising, swamping very loud Unionist (8) 20 Female swallowed up dairy product (4) 21 Rival Australian denizen recently departed (7) 22 Lecture boy about Exchange Rate Mechanism (6) 24 Bug university group, keeping quiet (5) 26 Free rounds in London centre of learning (5) 27 Nothing to be found in boozer occasionally (4)