DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Runner perhaps allowed to wear two articles (7) 5 Learner-driver twists back in ungainly posture (6) 9 Black marble crushed bush (7) 10 Old eleven, poor side, get rusty maybe (7) 11 Old king makes disapproving sound (3) 12 Shrub bed, one briefly connected with spring festival (11) 13 Big flower appears in her novel (5) 14 Always innocent, like Holly? (9) 16 Engine part is not turning during drive (6,3) 17 It’s to do with seeing and, if powerless, hearing (5) 19 German car worker is beginning to examine stock (11) 22 Start to promote commercial stuff (3) 23 In company, Robin played with vigour (3,4) 24 Foreign Office sides with ordinary sailors, miserable (7) 26 King left, abandoning foolhardy holiday (6) 27 Regret dealing with additional housing society (7)
DOWN
1 Arab tribe relocated settler? (7) 2 Laurence has arranged to acquire slim cover (6,9) 3 English bishops retreat (3) 4 What pilot may have to do in European fighter over Cape (5) 5 Special ducks want to ingest fine spoil (5-4) 6 Indian dish — rally’s top drivers eat it (5) 7 Quick trip south without petrol’s crazy (7-4,4) 8 Coin hidden among notes in cell (6) 12 Statement of belief is firm about cardinal (5) 14 Certain about accepting old copy? Wrong (9) 15 Some scaremongers upset Swiss financier (5) 16 Turn up small creatures in porous rock (6) 18 Notice enclosed in church resolution (7) 20 A great many people weed on both sides of road (5) 21 Reason nitric oxide should be removed from blaze (5) 25 Crash into sign (3)