DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Member welcomes 100 at union meeting by arrangement (12) 8 Apt description of what’s in crumpled tin cans (7) 9 Rear centre of rump bone (7) 11 Is a mini etc. designed for close relations? (10) 12 Win once more, having dropped leader (4) 14 Charlatan’s ‘I’m penniless’ taking in good person (8) 16 Just depend on me (6) 17 Wife approved dish in Chinese restaurant (3) 19 A rocky cove, close to perfect for wading bird (6) 21 Hospital department managed church access (8) 24 Trace piece of audiotape (4) 25 Los Angeles police cross icy river lacking preservative (6,4) 27 Irishman, say, hosts British institute in Archangel (7) 28 He authorises English navy to seize island on way back (7) 29 Motoring limits practice area for golfers (7,5)

DOWN

1 Fledgling company’s champion ram (5-2) 2 He controls circus starring me doing acrobatics? (10) 3 Dawn’s birds (8) 4 Heavy coat? Result, disaster (6) 5 State very nearly supports Austria (4) 6 Ignoring United, league defends stylish pedigree (7) 7 Taking in a good girl brought up to grasp one language (12) 10 Brass finishers surround 50 mortgagees (12) 13 Little green man arranges lunch with a peer (10) 15 Eggs from orioles lacking odd features (3) 18 A winter spent by king in Cardigan? (8) 20 O to be visiting Costa Rica in revolutionary month! (7) 22 Aircraft’s housing a monk’s room in northeast (7) 23 Eight pints nearly consumed — everyone’s drunk (6) 26 Ski events held somewhere in Ukraine (4)

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