DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Lawbreaker nearly blocks new diets — see the difference (12) Allow silence to be

8 9 broken (7) Mother eats a stew — about the greatest amount (7)

11 Order soldier to be camp boss (10)

Just beautiful (4)

12 14 Wife has somehow to bend left to reach basin (8)

16 Phone port in Alabama (6)

17 Lay group (3)

19 It’s obvious I must change — rector’s coming in (6)

21 Loss of power in county, initially for everybody (8)

24 Cover skin (4)

25 Furry rodent’s cold in big country (10)

27 Effortlessly recite: ‘Dance cancelled!’ (4,3)

28 Notice put back over old rugs (7) 29 Huge surprise when I packed in ten months at sea (12)

DOWN

1 Goes off suddenly, spaced out, having stolen money (7) 2 Busty Danes dressed in glad rags (6,4) 3 Leaves money again to East End beset by rackets (2-6) 4 Instant vehicle check involves soldiers (6) 5 10 caught in trap immediately afterwards (4) 6 They’re stretched to the limits in main pit perhaps (7) 7 Two time-keepers here stripped for punctual worker (5-7) 10 Israeli males disrupted national anthem (12) 13 Engineer honoured us in railway shed (10) 15 Light-emitting diode went in front (3) 18 Excellent photo can’t develop without adult (3-5) 20 Get ready for bed under wrecked ship (7) 22 Illness may be terminal without first of remedies (7) 23 Look, leaders of union failed in this arrangement (6) 26 French oboist grabs bum (4)

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