DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Arm-waving and in this stamping windy dawn More impulsive race (3,5)

5 item breakfast for (6)

9 People their heads? count (8) using 10 Big nuts seabirds (6) drop 51 12 Top primate cross (4) 13 Head off initiative (3,2,3,2) 15 Header shows up guilty party – bad goalkeeper? (13)

19 Worker invested in revised benchmarks for lenders (8,5) 23 Teams welcome times together (4,2,4) 25 What’s often said in church is not entirely correct (4) 28 Set off explosive? Yes, set off (6)

29 Bond large broken guitar with last of glue (8)

30 Sewer prominent on the Embankment (6)

31 Car capital of America? Nothing’s left, just rubble (8)

DOWN

1 Marsupial’s origin? Australia and Tasmania primarily (6) 2 Called sweetheart in mountains (5) 3 Not at home in Bulawayo (4) 4 Where to study, say, boring cello playing? (7) 6 Trouble near a sports ground (5) 7 Speak to ambassador first, adorned in this? (9) 8 Vigorously press on nerve ending to get this? (8) 11 White horses old labourer picked up (4) 14 Eat out in Cuba, passing round the bananas (4) 15 Hay, for instance, spoils a brand new church (4,5) 16 Period in which leaders of reindeer usurp terrain (3) 17 Segment of uplifting opening number (4) 18 Negligence? Ring embassy (8) 20 Egg cup one’s tempted to steal? (4) 21 When you retire, discharge most of debt arising (7) 22 Merkel sacks a small group of backers (6) 24 Paul, for example, picked up nut (5) 26 Second last shed (5) 27 Duet’s quiet song (4)

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