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. 15,697, 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 High flier leaves this up to arrival possibly (6,5) 9 Odd student body in universities meets a lecturer (7) 10 Reveal moves to defend harbour and port abroad (2,5) 11 Land is seized from Republic, causing fury (3) 12 What partners do in company hotel to some extent (7) 13 Parent lost blood, spoke incoherently (7) 14 Weight of stone that’s out of bounds (3) 15 Pan for traditional Sunday food (5) 17 Small valley impressed with lodge (5) 18 Airship bulging initially, then sagging (5) 20 Mark flag that’s been sent back? Good point (5) 22 Spot the same temperature (3) 24 Somehow awful scrum was missing prop (7) 25 Shorten a game (7) 26 A couple of lines or the lot (3) 27 Pragmatic person dealing with top celebrities (7) 28 Ring court about European’s form of language (7) 29 Conventional sources of mathematical terms (6,5)

DOWN

1 Composer refurbishes Waugh’s main villa (7,8) 2 He checks piping in quiet wood (7) 3 Dark, yet bright heading off (5) 4 It records and transmits crude letter about English writer (9) 5 A fake journalist’s embarrassed (7) 6 Feature of 27, the opposite of fallen arches? (15) 7 Sweet clue solved during daytime? (6) 8 Quarrel with a trainee about old legal system (6) 16 Old school masters block change (4,5) 18 In favour of stopping worker at an earlier stage (6) 19 Border stitch that is undone at the front (7) 21 Rent-a-party fighter (7) 23 Score at the top of the board (6) 25 Chap leaves councillor a tree (5)