DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Yearbook article stored in a large computer (7) 5 Prefer quartet to tackle a bigger number (6) 9 Reveal who put rocks around end of pier (5,2) 10 Whiter, upset, she lost heart in turn for the worse (7) 11 Munro’s missing a runner (3) 12 In turn, Jamie coats dinner opener in fish product (3-5,3) 13 He can’t gulp regularly to finish food (3,2) 14 English girl is collecting old and new releases (9) 16 Music company’s popular in Italian and German listing (9) 17 Group of 9 musicians turn over part of joint (5) 19 Bread producer enrols greasemonkey (male) and welder (11) 22 Not as many shorn sheep (3) 23 Old clothing’s torn around end (7) 24 Ring, say, after first of last month? Sound measure (7) 26 Crackling sound in mobile? Definitely not (6) 27 Put off American writer entering South Dakota (7)

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1 Performer’s part is testing to some extent (7) 2 Stalinist miner misled about vote for communist (7-8) 3 Three quarters not used (3) 4 Son leaves Sidcup to be trained as junior bowman (5) 5 Merciful purpose of gift? (9) 6 Put a price on uranium in valley (5) 7 Peacekeepers clean up Borneo rebels? It’s hard to say (15) 8 Top businessmen collect 50 large instruments (6) 12 Mafia bosses overcome resistance in island (5) 14 Gin and It came mixed? That’s puzzling (9) 15 1 Down mostly played a big lute (5) 16 It’s congenital in Britain or Norway (6) 18 Pestered student wanted outside (7) 20 Found some breakfast cereals upended (5) 21 Celebrity solves sudoku endlessly (5) 25 Constituent of salad primarily (3)

NO 14930 PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 14,930, PO BOX 3451, Norwich, NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be postmarked...