DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Throw out old mail distributed with two names (8) 5 Cereal covers a large inverted pastry cake (6) 9 Duke stops Charlie after surgery involving arms (8) 10 Issue involves right line on map (6) 12 Struggle with stance (4) 13 To classify feline, I stand up (10) 15 Prepare clergyman for top government job (5,8) 19 Ignore temperature during painful snips here? (8,5) 23 Minor event starts to annoy locals (10) 25 Ring number (4) 28 Old airline trick producing warning light (6) 29 Card game’s fashionable still (8) 30 Challenge knight to seize king that’s dim (6) 31 Opening lines in high court (8)

DOWN

1 Auxiliary verbs are good (6) 2 Bottle that carries messages (5) 3 Upset leaders in eliminator race (4) 4 Energise a partner touring province (7) 6 Freight beginning to capsize old ship (5) 7 Post-holder has a quiet pint hosting old Europeans (9) 8 Spain supports Gibraltar test showing NASA’s skill (8) 11 Buy 5s here, and some chandeliers (4) 14 Bone up on Oscar, writer (4) 15 Couple confine snotty quiet child in this (9) 16 Ran into opera house (3) 17 I study religious image (4) 18 Improvised a plot to trap Dutch Liberal (2-6) 20 News about one English square (4) 21 Acanthus collapsed, lacking a stem (7) 22 Female recently lost energy completely (6) 24 Member of colony finished collecting last of nectar (5) 26 Yellowish source of metal found round Switzerland (5) 27 Poles entertain secretary for bridge (4)

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