DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Liquidated Asian assets after Revolution Day (12) 8 Former Middle Eastern country’s a small one now (7) 9 Plant shrub outside youth centre on both sides (7) 11 e.g. watch Mike and Peter working to retain energy (10) 12 Blonde female broadcast (4) 14 Job with iPad organised — no need for stamps (4-4) 16 Serious cut close to toe (6) 17 Unit of basic information technology primarily (3) 19 Boring Lancs town mostly upbeat at last (3,3) 21 Her top man’s good in the van — they’re in a pickle (8) 24 One in Paris and nine in Rome operating system (4) 25 One-time Latvian’s introduced standard message (4,6) 27 Nuts eat bananas, getting disease (7) 28 It helps winter sportsmen miss gap, losing height (3,4) 29 Brit won Open and I somehow earned little credit (7,5)

DOWN

1 Adopts and amuses misbehaving son (7) 2 Britannia Stadium is where –––––, hosting rare type of golf (6,4) 3 Superfluous joke in old feminist publication (5,3) 4 Like remote islanders, black in scarlet clothing (6) 5 Supporter in motoring event runs away (4) 6 Bring up old coin during middle of speech (7) 7 Sewage was at first spread out everywhere on edges of croft (5,7) 10 Doctoring style there covers unlimited care (6,6) 13 After last month Irene is prepared for trial divorce (6,4) 15 Odd characters in doing excavation (3) 18 Bus wrecked during strike’s a sign of success (6,2) 20 Hobo’s feet wrapped in towel (7) 22 International trio played psalm during Mass (7) 23 Style of arboriculture developed in Bosnia (6) 26 Beavers do it when a new gumtree originally comes up (4)

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