DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

NO 14600

ACROSS

1 Drunk attendant covering whole side (4-4) 5 Armed groups destroy fresco (6) 9 Chopped tuna and lamb makes you able to walk about (8) 10 Unfairly overcharge doctor carrying unlimited money (6) 12 Sexy novel’s about pinching semiprecious stone (4) 13 Cattle hair unsettled camp (10) 15 Ill-at-ease, lacking the means to control console (13) 19 After descent 500 enter winter sport that’s terrifying (13) 23 Janitor rode unsteadily around golden tower (10) 25 Aquatic plant collected by formal garden (4) 28 It lives in thin layer of rock facing backwards (6) 29 Old man’s emphatic he’s thrown out flags here (8) 30 Katherine carelessly ignores her latest pupils, say (6) 31 Extremely refined exotic tale involving this place (8)

DOWN

1 Section of 29 on vessel (6) 2 Old books found in walls of library in reception room (5) 3 Religious students’ tablet (4) 4 Colourful material going nonetheless to poor actor (7) 6 Broadcasting ‘How we live’? (2,3) 7 U.S. purse, and what to do where thieves operate? (6,3) 8 One invested in more flexible furnisher (8) 11 Knock over rum, swamping a low section of wall (4) 14 Two ways of representing diamonds as some buns (4) 15 Brain expert ditched Nebraska to be a plumbing expert (9) 16 Coat that’s not quite the rage? (3) 17 Couple can start to work inside (4) 18 Hot sailor in Dubai compound? Not far away (3,5) 20 Turned up desultorily at first and given employment (4) 21 Fancy candidates’ DNA being extracted in mould! (3-4) 22 Booker prize-winner’s shelf (6) 24 King is able to upset another’s natural talent (5) 26 Fib, for instance, about Belgian city (5) 27 Top player’s said to give up (4)