DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Companies embrace new way to reach agreement (7) 5 Segregated group got the ground (6) 9 Hospital department duplicated English pact (7) 10 Judge is dealing with top woman in charge (7) 11 Public Records Office person ignoring regulars (3) 12 Good-looker, one of many hanging around gallery (3,8) 13 Pan for traditional Sunday lunch (5) 14 Acting for someone else, a Republican blocks cutting (9) 16 Past master broadcast this on air? (9) 17 Order member a long way round Rhode Island (5) 19 Rear waggon wobbles round bend in tight track (6,5) 22 Circuit ace breaks record (3) 23 Indicator of cold under discussion, some say (7) 24 Acrobat swapping sides in old cart (7) 26 Engineers extremely dodgy solution (6) 27 Painkiller unlikely to cause offence (7)
DOWN
1 Ivy, say, about to tuck into crinkly crepe (7) 2 Compulsory callup’s antisocial and never wrong (8,7) 3 Possess long dress without top (3) 4 Live and thrive, lacking nothing (5) 5 Heartless guy, Franco trained with large bird of prey (9) 6 Small, slender and a bit selfindulgent (5) 7 Former volunteers, I fear, cut field, … (11,4) 8 … bushy fringes and hard borders (6) 12 Beat United, running rings round them (5) 14 Very angrily worked with nothing but excessive pride (9) 15 Flier hurt arm (5) 16 Branagh worried, deprived of British place for plane (6) 18 Salesman left during exploit to drive back (7) 20 Pigment chief found in mineral deposit (5) 21 Extremely faithful translation essentially (5) 25 Mark loves sound on farm (3)