DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Tirade, possibly involving one book (8) 5 Spots lady removing plug without thinking (6) 9 Cool dance church suppressed? Attempt Spanish one (8) 10 Polish splendid incomplete manuscript title (6) 12 Running water in Africa upset some feelings (4) 13 When all else fails, make do with this salt perhaps? (4,6) 15 Final income briefly derived from studio apartment (3-3,7) 19 Vague modern English expression I note in time (13) 23 Parsimonious earl’s funny about working (10) 25 Cut bargain (4) 28 Exceptionally large useless person ignoring child (6) 29 Cooked Welsh rarebit Shaw refused: ‘It’s awful!’ (8) 30 Look good with someone who recently turned 90 (6) 31 On radio, Cilla Black lost energy in part of lyric (8)
DOWN
1 Back’s fed up with goal (6) 2 Disallow plant amateur left (5) 3 Travelled on horseback say, on this? (4) 4 Crooner pens 18: ‘How did it all begin?’ (3,4) 6 Divert a Clio maybe? (5 7 Sing in barbershop way, mixing a shampoo and rinse (no soap) (9) 8 Caribbean island pops up on poor night for sailing (8) 11 Stage favourites turn up (4) 14 Sea change upset wor on paper (4) 15 Arab state accepts divine patient chap as casual worker (3-3,3) 16 Into which gimlet is partially rotated? (3) 17 Close down early, ignoring banks (4) 18 Diverse group made big changes to preserve cross (5,3) 20 Managed to acquire one bucket (4) 21 Writer’s on track to collect mature pictures (7) 22 Each expert swallows one during exercises (6) 24 You get this often by eating somewhat eagerly at first (5) 26 Sailor hosted by aristocrat and tycoon (5) 27 Test soldiers with a laptop (4)
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SOLUTION TO PRIZE CROSSWORD No 15,289:
ACROSS: 1 Gymnast. 5 Groove. 9 Aircrew. 10 Globule. 11 Ire. 12 Hero-worship. 13 Log on. 14 Fat chance. 16 Bar charts. 17 Zaire. 19 Ideological. 22 Lad. 23 Origami. 24 Nitrate. 26 Eggnog. 27 Chassis. DOWN: 1 Glacial. 2 Market gardening. 3 Ayr. 4 Tower. 5 Gigawatts. 6 Odour. 7 Vaughan Williams. 8 Temple. 12 Hunch. 14 Foregoing. 15 Hazel. 16 Briton. 18 Endless. 20 Learn. 21 Cynic. 25 Tea.