DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 So, with aplomb, lad ransacked contents of vessel (5,6) 9 Bloke ages after working in wine shops (7) 10 Disgusting old bishop observed in conversation (7) 11 Defraud business at end of season (3) 12 Meet accidentally? (3,4) 13 Such letters are inclined to revise CIA list (7) 14 A pound investment? (3) 15 Send these plants off to create accidents perhaps (5) 17 Northern listeners make approaches (5) 18 Zone surrounding national sports ground (5) 20 Frightening thing and when it happened? (5) 22 Holly’s seasonal companion’s a climber (3) 24 Chinese vegetable’s OK when diced with a chip (3,4) 25 Buy and sell, you could say, like all humans (7) 26 No goals accepted by juveniles (3) 27 Hot drink in mostly warm French vineyard (7) 28 Polluted soil at middle of field is maroon (7) 29 The old record is about Anglo-Norman church experts (11)

DOWN

1 Cast banded on short holiday at Lent, say — here? (3,3,9) 2 In recession, firm imports wild grain, naturally grown (7) 3 Very nearly left to find party (5) 4 Activity of fans left clearing the air? (9) 5 Mark traps American bear (7) 6 People with reservations ruin Canadian miners, I gathered (8,7) 7 Large peninsula in Europe, not large African state (6) 8 People count US coins there first, ignoring time (6) 16 It’s uninterrupted until 11 perhaps when one enters (9) 18 Amateur accountant holds record for wool supplier (6) 19 Arrive at answer one evening after church (7) 21 Pudding of stewed apricot runs out by end of tea (7) 23 Shouted and sang in Alps, not using middle of body (6) 25 Crooner hoards 50 showy bits of jewellery (5)