DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 15,914, 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 15,911: ACROSS: 1 Pole Star. 5 Decamp. 9 Baroness. 10 Seance. 12 Inch. 13 Ins and outs. 15 Police officer. 19 Helter-skelter. 23 Sink or swim. 25 Saki. 28 Iritis. 29 Atropine. 30 Needle. 31 Reindeer. DOWN: 1 Public. 2 Lyric. 3 Sand. 4 Arsenic. 6 Emend. 7 Announcer. 8 Pressure. 11 Dado. 14 Sloe. 15 Polonaise. 16 Elk. 17 Fate. 18 Thespian. 20 So-so. 21 Epistle. 22 Linear. 24 Oriel. 26 Arise. 27 Coin.
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ACROSS
1 Get mad, tense, brawl with boy — how stupid! (5,1,6) 8 Discerning diner enters, complimenting our methods (7) 9 Layman’s a chum, essentially pure (7) 11 Revitalise groups of species hidden in rotten tree (10) 12 What makes cloth appear? (4) 14 Government inquires about clash over in fuel plant (8) 16 Deliver one container inside another (4,2) 17 Particle that appears in 7 and 10 (3) 19 Best salesman returns hat (6) 21 Leave back tie boxes at the same time (8) 24 Cricket ground in old bog that’s reclaimed (4) 25 Mike leaves overseer dumb at both ends of ship (4,3,3) 27 Make more acceptable weapon, investing very little (7) 28 ITV iron out how some lab tests are carried out (2,5) 29 Royals angry about buffet in cells (5,7)
DOWN
1 Tory regularly used buggy going round good walks (7) 2 Flowers captivate chap with no prominent features (5,5) 3 Tug needed for this — run in its wake unsteadily (5-3) 4 Breaking the law may produce this (6) 5 Carry stand (4) 6 Old wine drunk? You might need this (3-4) 7 American staggering drunkenly around old collections (12) 10 Pay trained mountaineer to follow river (12) 13 Excited Europeans welcome very bright stars (10) 15 He’s extremely tight primarily (3) 18 Author lives rough, having no time outside (8) 20 Soft fine fabric initially brought over as sop (7) 22 Mend your old well (7) 23 Associate small number engaged in pastime mostly (6) 26 Some pet names for dangerous mountain in Sicily (4)