DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Chop peas with Tom perhaps, making pile in garden (7,4) 9 Being separated, stop working (4,3) 10 Use horn frivolously and throw rider (7) 11 Find wood during Michaelmas (3) 12 He charges a constant customer, but not Tom (7) 13 Lost pet bird reportedly earns you 50p, say (7) 14 Implement’s reduced as well (3) 15 Sound that introduces Schwarzenegger (5) 17 Local inhabitant spends time in green (5) 18 Drive too fast in Deep South on return journey (5) 20 A big country in diameter (measuring tool not needed) (5) 22 Deer, extremely large kind primarily (3) 24 Artist breaks leg — recovery’s extremely neglected (2,5) 25 Help Mark circumnavigating America (7) 26 Some people appreciate grassy ground (3) 27 Fond of having fun, squander full pay (7) 28 A German put in claim that’s silly and breath-taking (7) 29 Where I’m heading‘s not set — 20 possibly (11)

DOWN

1 Groom changed for lunch in religious institution (6,2,7) 2 They obeyed chairman as Tom is sick (7) 3 Tender old fellows approach sovereign (5) 4 Odd copper’s nearly late tackling decisive move (5,4) 5 Army unit has no shelter climbing over church (7) 6 Flyer using power and force in general, acrobatically (9,6) 7 Like worker keeping line at an angle (6) 8 Notice a knock occasionally interrupting this meeting? (6) 16 Head office vote in just over a hundred common folk (3,6) 18 Plain, small, very quiet place to drive hosts (6) 19 Maligned French officer misled Freud, say, heartlessly (7) 21 African chief is taking a long time over his spear (7) 23 Warm-hearted relations dally in odd places (6) 25 Paris ambassador holds dance (5)

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