DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Tom runs warship (7) 5 Tearaway’s confidence trick (3-3) 9 Found old pet light clothes (7) 10 He provides meals to three queens (7) 11 Stick held by square-leg umpire (3) 12 One or two items supplied by dairy (5,6) 13 Take part in prequalifying match (5) 14 Surveys cover slim swimming trainers (9) 16 To pay back rupees bewildered Burmese, I gathered (9) 17 Protection needed when touring, say, Italy (5) 19 Ignore so-called Prague man’s freedom of action (5,6) 22 Three-quarters of crew drink (3) 23 I’m soon at odds with union – it’s not looking good (7) 24 Theatre’s right to tackle modern copy (7) 26 Shooting star in Spielberg film set in ruins of Rome (6) 27 Flowers one’s arranged, not straight (7)
DOWN
1 Officer nearly runs over German in his city (7) 2 Suspect Ivan cut no ice with mum? Yes, mum (15) 3 Almost fill up weekend (3) 4 Cycle over crest of green line of hills (5) 5 Engineers come across some wine and get together again (9) 6 Mend trail skirting front of common (5) 7 Drink the gin and golf? Possibly unwise if this is about! (6,9) 8 Groundsmen initially dig up smoothest parts of course (6) 12 Group in pub elect rising star (5) 14 Cleaner brings in Charles as buyer (9) 15 A bit of fish some cook at first with beer (5) 16 Books bound in decorated iron strip (6) 18 What’s odd about radical youth leader? He’s not pale (7) 20 Not much change over in Bergen or Kristiansand (5) 21 Holy book, one replaced by queen in ME country (5) 25 Fool trips over step in Sadler’s Wells (3)