DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Current indicators of one group in difficulties (5,6) 9 One involved in nasty murder’s crucial to hearing (7) 10 Instinct is surprisingly simple when it grabs you (7) 11 Austrian river pub (3) 12 Clever downhill runner was first to overtake left (7) 13 Eastern spiderwoman forgets name for 9’s problem (7) 14 Old monarch offers little resistance (3) 15 Further on and far in possibly (5) 17 Leading pair in hypnosis, 12 (5) 18 Hollow space exists over students’ union (5) 20 Drunk loses first game of chance (5) 22 Former police turn over mongrel (3) 24 Artists’ bloomers (7) 25 Even serviceman wears one (7) 26 Every second counts in social lubrication (3) 27 Obsessed special people buy Independent and Times (7) 28 Broadcast leaves out Mozart’s first passage (7) 29 Model reclines, say, as a matter of course (11)

DOWN

1 Anti-monarchist airman let loose in China (15) 2 Learning the French one creates fatal attraction (7) 3 Swollen stomach I had contracted (5) 4 I can rave about English casual worker (9) 5 Very little parking for women in Brontë village (7) 6 Nervously crafty, tuck in mischievous child, awake (4-11) 7 Gets hurt in centre of Toulouse in fires (4,2) 8 This plant needs to install IT to produce speed (6) 16 Clouds hide blokes regularly performing traditional airs (4,5) 18 Cruel person said to be agitated in street (6) 19 He questions dubious practices, dismissing artist (7) 21 Cheque sent over to French friend for paperwork (7) 23 Zapper’s not within reach (6) 25 Helpful tradesman captures extremist (5)