DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 15,553, PO BOX 3451, Norwich, NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be postmarked no later than tomorrow. Please make sure you enclose your name and address.

ACROSS

1 Two men and old American like cattle (11) 9 Scavenger bound to avoid a river (7) 10 Low single-digit growth ruins one in the end (7) 11 Request large missing vegetable (3) 12 Can tool split if this liquid is not used? (7) 13 Escort king welcoming trainee Dutch settler once (7) 14 Despicable person knocked over sailor (3) 15 Meat business breaks embargo (5) 17 Bloke eats very soft fish (5) 18 Secretary volunteers once to carry special dish (5) 20 Sound international left blocking goal (5) 22 Worn out part of articulated lorry sent back (3) 24 Suffer athlete’s foot in rough ground (7) 25 The most unrefined clubs face the least well-behaved (7) 26 Lake ducks can (3) 27 Communicant at altar tackles choral work (7) 28 Studying somewhere in Berkshire (7) 29 Former long-standing custom leads to deportation (11)

DOWN

1 Adapt refashioned cell as student accommodation (4,2,9) 2 Plant runs pub

in centre (7) 3 Incompetent writer turns up in Italy (5) 4 A lot can go amiss with many sides (9) 5 Start 20 (7) 6 Entertainer who has you falling about, ironically? (5-2,8) 7 A rocky cove, ultimately perfect for wader (6) 8 150 with little work finally lobby ministers (6) 16 Sausage and tea keeps a pilot refreshed (9) 18 Judy’s husband controls a corporation (6) 19 A milk supplier’s

up to date (7) 21 Wave to someone, primarily a friend in Paris (7) 23 Venetian lawman saves old reserves for his last years (6) 25 Rearing up, big rocks screen pet (5)