DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Busy grocer sent over second barrow boy (12) 8 Diamonds, copper, beryllium and hard water? (3,4) 9 Doctor hides trouble with a government postholder (7) 11 Harbour fish too short for paintings (10) 12 Poetic lover abandons small cart (4) 14 Appear drunk clutching book (German) in this carrier? (5,3) 16 One-dimensional story-teller tours northeast (6) 17 You enjoy solving primarily? Definitely (3) 19 Chef’s hat conceals rare old neck ornament (6) 21 Significant stuff (8) 24 Notice loss of teacher (4) 25 Greeting cryptic setter outside Grand Hotel, sited here? (4,6) 27 Vegetable confuses Spain and Switzerland (7) 28 Engagement finished? Stop speaking (4,3) 29 Wrongly grasp and mend sapphire badly (12)

DOWN

1 Don’t be so glum — play here in trophy (5,2) 2 Area Turks cultivated, putting in posh cabbage (10) 3 Extremely old man found in perimeter of Ely common (8) 4 It’s hard to understand silent ballet in odd places (6) 5 Arrest slow mover heading off (4) 6 Willingly accept European married couple (7) 7 Big swimmer needs fruit drink at sumo wrestling (12) 10 Pole supports army chief and his planning officers (7,5) 13 Italian poet accepts revised title: ‘The Dabbler’ (10) 15 Margaret lifted stone (3) 18 Woodworker’s supporter noticed end of ladder in stockings (8) 20 Composer across in Italy, cutting margins (7) 22 Cecil ordered to entertain old duke, like 8 (3-4) 23 Senior cleric, one in book store (6) 26 Priest hit archbishop’s head (4)

SOLUTION TO PRIZE CROSSWORD No 15,572: ACROSS: 1 Downward. 5 Corpus. 9 Addendum. 10 Chaste. 12 Tiny. 13 Dinner bell. 15 Orchestration. 19 Spiny anteater. 23 Reasonable. 25 Opal. 28 Boiler. 29 Opponent. 30 Syntax. 31 Neophyte. DOWN: 1 Dearth. 2 Widen. 3 Want. 4 Routine. 6 Other. 7 Posterior. 8 Seedling. 11 Gnat. 14 Achy. 15 Oxidation. 16 Sot. 17 Arts. 18 Ascribes. 20 Naan. 21 Eclipse. 22 Clothe. 24 Omega. 26 Piety. 27 Coop.