DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
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SOLUTION TO PRIZE CROSSWORD No 14,178: ACROSS: 1 Widgeon. 5 Top hat. 9 Louvred. 10 Retrial. 11 Oil. 12 Partnership. 13 Taste. 14 Point duty. 16 Soapstone. 17 Nooks. 19 Indifferent. 22 Who. 23 Purport. 24 Tacitus. 26 Astrid. 27 Admirer. DOWN: 1 Walk-out. 2 Double standards. 3 Err. 4 Nadir. 5 Tyrannise. 6 Peter. 7 A fish out of water. 8 Flopsy. 12 Press. 14 Protested. 15 Tenet. 16 Slippy. 18 Sponsor. 20 Flour. 21 Extra. 25 Cam. 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
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ACROSS 1 Officer and monarch’s kitchen utensil (8) 5 Reckless plan to arrest aide-decamp (6) 9 Frank’s good poker hand (8) 10 Out-of-date item in millinery museum (3,3) 12 Over-produced cheese? (4) 13 Downpour and deafening explosion – put on cape (10) 15 Fashionable ladies, for instance, create trouble (13) 19 Ban old county pal touring German city non-stop (13) 23 Order peach melba with it ignoring me? That’s another order (10) 25 On the way back tailgunner eats fruit (4) 28 Some stars welcome head of state for prayer (6) 29 Round back of livestock I’m a mild scatty farm girl (8) 30 Old Bow Street policeman and athlete (6) 31 Run recording quietly and rested (4,4)
DOWN 1 Late U.S. container takes bananas to support Cuba (6) 2 Caterpillar restricted in volcanic rock (5) 3 Upcoming alliance’s centrally secure (4) 4 He once staggered, drinking litres — that’s rank (7) 6 Laid out book without preparation (2,3) 7 A hundred once gathered here, sticking together (9) 8 Staple food priest eats too fussily (8) 11 Picked up stolen goods and instrument (4) 14 Computers turned up fraud (4) 15 Start ordering first of patches with nicotine (9) 16 Vehicle in front … (3) 17 … it follows one with a terrible reputation (4) 18 Thrash rabble rioting round old university (8) 20 Addict restricted by house rules (4) 21 Sign first (7) 22 Antelope’s two offspring stood up (3-3) 24 Maybe oldie’s regular home (5) 26 Fruit found in Nicaragua valley (5) 27 Old beast of burden climbs all right (4)