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. 15,917, 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 Extremist found in the sea, blue (11) 9 Crazy despot seizing king’s workstation (7) 10 Bread-winner’s desk? (4-3) 11 Head of languages loves somewhere to go (3) 12 Flog company during sudden increase (7) 13 Former German money preferred, possibly nine grand (7) 14 Favourite exercises initially in gym (3) 15 Lawyer acquires a church and country house (5) 17 Part of act observed, taken as read (5) 18 Tanks and what are directed at them (5) 20 Exhaust American with Brussels priest (3,2) 22 River nearly repelled sources of life (3) 24 Disregarded Italian man heading off with daughter (7) 25 Pastry confection resulted in mess after base fell off (7) 26 European artist’s long period (3) 27 Erin gallops in headgear such as this? (7) 28 Sketch swimmer heading west for Caribbean islands (7) 29 Pick way round college, getting shock (11)
DOWN
1 Ulsterman’s in Kop, rioting? It’s certainly not cricket! (15) 2 Instructed Irish MP to adopt different route (7) 3 Liberal politician cuts drink (5) 4 A & E about to restrict old idea for transport (9) 5 One pair of lecturers on loch make complaint (7) 6 Agreement in 1904 to end eternal ice possibly? (7,8) 7 One drink over two days makes sense (4,2) 8 Highest point of a river? I’m surprised (6) 16 Revise pact due to palace revolution (4,5) 18 Mutinous ship’s captain heading for Timor and ruin (6) 19 Drug delivery device? Yes, sadly implicating band (7) 21 Upstart never initially appears in wild rave-up (7) 23 Refer everything due to be ordered (6) 25 Many shots start to surprise Oval ground (5)