DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Secure spot in Delaware airline (8) 5 One incomplete item of underclothing (6) 9 Plant came cut over some distance (8) 10 Respect silver in residence (6) 12 Some people choose to reflect (4) 13 Very quietly organise a mission led by Greek character (10) 15 It’ll be the tube jerks that make you act bravely (4,3,6) 19 Collier was cut during changes — these may cure him (7,6) 23 What bankrupt retailer did for unionised staff? (6,4) 25 Old friend’s a gem (4) 28 Land on fire (6) 29 Old poet regularly bullies local government (4,4) 30 Escape route, say, connected with ship (6) 31 Build place to eat in island on retirement (8)

DOWN

1 Tapers are so foul (6) 2 Rewrite hymn about prince, 12 for instance (5) 3 Big cat lifting up short chap (4) 4 Soprano abandons old song writer for fortune-teller (7) 6 Contents of golf bag decreases? (5) 7 Happy American tours new oil plant (9) 8 Canine, European, they arranged to trap as well (8) 11 Joint eager to promote name near the top … (4) 14 … where this actor is almost beginning (4) 15 Ring Oliver to skip five rounds held here (9) 16 Irish playwright rejects first fruit (3) 17 Exploited American journalist (4) 18 One arrived up with a note: ‘Get wasted!’ (8) 20 The Spanish team initially got beaten (4) 21 Heartless girl abandons attractive romantic (7) 22 Run away from this Parisian cheat (6) 24 English host brewed spirit (5) 26 Lead protects chimney in Glasgow exactly (5) 27 Evergreen shrub appears in the belvedere (4)