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. 14,730, 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.
SOLUTION TO PRIZE CROSSWORD No 14,727: ACROSS: 1 Town planners. 8 Rear end. 9 Cool bag. 11 Wet blanket. 12 Tape. 14 Northern. 16 Tureen. 17 Yob. 19 Putrid. 21 Downhill. 24 Idea. 25 Silhouette. 27 Strange. 28 Melanie. 29 Amphitheatre. DOWN: 1 Tractor. 2 Wheelchair. 3 Pedantry. 4 Archer. 5 Noon. 6 Ribcage. 7 Growing pains. 10 Greensleeves. 13 Quintuplet. 15 Nod. 18 Bonhomie. 20 Theorem. 22 Intense. 23 Silent. 26 Inch. DAILY MAIL New Cryptic Crosswords — pit your wits against 100 of the trickiest cryptic puzzles ever to appear in your favourite paper. This book provides the ideal way to warm up your grey matter for a day’s work, or wind down and relax during those rare spare moments. Available from The Daily Mail bookshop on 0844 472 4157 or www.mailbookshop.co.uk at £5.99 free postage and packing. ACROSS 1 Sticky sweet? (6,5) 9 Pacific zone managed once again without new government (7) 10 Yellow flower in Scottish isle found by a German (7) 11 Tailless mammal and its habitat (3) 12 Publicity appearance that is plain (7) 13 What fans do in Hollywood? You’ll see it at night (3,4) 14 It doesn’t work in either direction (3) 15 Where alcohol’s drunk, not house (5) 17 Return shortly to earth in a loop (5) 18 Stainer’s numbers included by male alto (5) 20 Clean teeth in mutilated fossil, one’s missing (5) 22 Venomous creature appears in Aesop regularly (3) 24 Pleasant fellow featuring in a fairy story (7) 25 Country where 6 million surround volcano (7) 26 A very long time in 2 and 3 (3) 27 Finish mice off in a particular area (7) 28 National emblem extracted from the list (7) 29 It’s unclear if pension roughly covers 100 at college (3-8) DOWN 1 Former PM’s plot in paradise? (3,6,2,4) 2 I abandoned distraught Fraulein in late ceremony (7) 3 Delete answer in Irish (5) 4 Learner in Lima road unfortunately may hit it (9) 5 50p, for example, for reporting cagebird missing? (7) 6 Geocentric metal vibrates in this kind of field? (15) 7 Prod it vigorously – it’s lethargic (6) 8 Wrong U-turn negotiated approaching Spain (6) 16 Old fellows in church furious about some crockery? (6,3) 18 Principal collects exercises in a pile (6) 19 White’s sadly unable to earn money (7) 21 Leader of posse’s amazingly fresh if captured (7) 23 Pole nervously covers miles in front of saddle (6) 25 RC HQ stops short of article predicting the future (5)