DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Fool, I lie about a collection of laws (12) 8 Revel in eluding flies (7) 9 Wasted hours in making up feed (7) 11 Liaison in which nothing’s happening? (4,6) 12 Platoon leader unwell? This may help (4) 14 Poetic singer lost her mobile after tango (8) 16 Made up one number in school (6) 17 Woman ignoring last boy (3) 19 The noughties supplied an ample amount (6) 21 Rude jokes tease 17 working on line (8) 24 It’s very dark in Kentucky (4) 25 Fierce Greek woman and French writer make cheese (10) 27 Present for each class (7) 28 Trendy drivers’ display left nearer the front (1,2,4) 29 He’ll tweet Bob at work? That’s unfair (5,3,4)
DOWN
1 Stiff old man carried by speleologist (7) 2 An old girl’s designed symbol to identify bucks (6,4) 3 Men stopping this aerial stunt would create brawl (4,4) 4 Frank’s auxiliary verbs (6) 5 Time to show friendship to criminal? (4) 6 View round wing (7) 7 Article in wood is perhaps originally an elusive thing (4-1-3-4) 10 Punch is passed round lido, stirred for tourist (12) 13 Address partly confused Naomi and me (6,4) 15 Head of plant extremely lucky to leave early (3) 18 Girls suppress society scandal (8) 20 Source of wood, old gnarled teak cut by engineers (3,4) 22 He abandons course to start again at Twickenham (7) 23 Do last three members resign from board? (6) 26 The same party lost bird (4)
SOLUTION TO PRIZE CROSSWORD No 15,447: ACROSS: 1 Begrudge. 5 Top hat. 9 Orangery. 10 Sister. 12 Stem. 13 Table linen. 15 Three-cornered. 19 Kitchen garden. 23 Remarkable. 25 Anti. 28 Ironic. 29 Agnostic. 30 Hee-haw. 31 Addendum. DOWN: 1 Blouse. 2 Glare. 3 Urge. 4 Garbage. 6 Oriel. 7 Hit-and-run. 8 Threnody. 11 Olio. 14 Arch. 15 Totem pole. 16 Cog. 17 Node. 18 Skirmish. 20 Near. 21 Alleged. 22 Sitcom. 24 Raita. 26 Noted. 27 Bore.