DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

NO 16,022

ACROSS

1 Husband goes in to scrub part of church (7) 5 Grumpy taxi driver keeps right (6) 9 Wasting a cup (7) 10 He covers home with reliable roof initially (7) 11 Polite way to address father briefly (3) 12 Climbers may need these wild monkeys, about 10, with gas (6,5) 13 They constrain conservative forces in America (5) 14 Big insect in Spooner’s bottle without liquid (9) 16 Niche writer’s not dominant (9) 17 Cut back court demand (5) 19 Engineer records man bringing in one set of steps (6,5) 22 Mount a record (3) 23 Ring friend abroad to obtain gear for folding paper (7) 24 I got confused following very short dizzy spell (7) 26 You can rely on him to finish after last working day (6) 27 Light rear of chapel before service (7)

DOWN

1 Race girl in Channel Islands college (7) 2 Big ship, more roomy, welcomes cunning comedian (8,7) 3 Officer’s constant work (3) 4 Somewhere to pull up amateur boy losing heart (3-2) 5 A sharp rise in theft of Rollers? (5,4) 6 A US state propped up one in India (5) 7 Guide forbids one in parades scattering exotic fliers (5,2,8) 8 Like spring lambs, initially fickle and hairy (6) 12 Circle unchanged in watering-hole (5) 14 Dull guy forgot his lines, hung up on different one? (4-5) 15 Looking like some globes effectively? (5) 16 Memory stick that was used to force down charge (6) 18 Coiled python constricts duck, producing strong wind (7) 20 Writer’s mature copy (5) 21 Northern Rock given a lift due to service (5) 25 Smuggled Italian leader away from country (3)