DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Play for time after arranging private care (11) 9 Woman catches an ultimately lethal disease (7) 10 Put pressure on girlfriend (7) 11 He’s paid to play person occasionally (3) 12 Ham that’s old and green, containing one calorie (7) 13 Catty one ordered to cut track (7) 14 Sort of party held in Athens (3) 15 Kelvin and Ruth sent back grilled meat and veg (5) 17 Novelist upset about German letter in Greece (5) 18 Waste material’s greater than normal among doctors (5) 20 Feeble attempt to hide complaint (5) 22 Scrap low-quality paper (3) 24 Quiz whiz hobbles on walk with lecturer (4-3) 25 Mum distractedly tucked into cheese from Birmingham (7) 26 Girl, English, goes to Virginia (3) 27 Constant noise fills a jumbo (7) 28 In Kent perhaps, a fellow rings Germany for fish (7) 29 I’m in the cinema complex to see the Tardis, say (4,7)

DOWN

1 Old student chum takes an age to record one stone (15) 2 Identify bankrupt carmaker about to disappear (7) 3 Modify commercial fitting (5) 4 Like some puzzles but unlike common salt (9) 5 Watery gnarled US sequoia is taken away (7) 6 I’m not persevering (sadly, there’s no time) in plant (7,8) 7 Even small flier has nothing in it (6) 8 Not entirely common groups of species (6) 16 Senior Muslim lady devours wild bulb — it’s very chewy (9) 18 Order child to return tasteless articles (6) 19 I must somehow put in a day in Wembley, say (7) 21 Wave to student, originally a friend in Paris (7) 23 Heartless guy eats venison up, wanting more (6) 25 Unsophisticated graduates in charge (5)

PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 15,104, PO BOX 3451, Norwich, NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be postmarked...