DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Washerwoman ignores the Parisian strip (7) 5 Hard to find standard in middle of Essex (6) 9 Rustic tramp with ugly pink behind (7) 10 D-list celeb who isn’t completely broke, say? (3-4) 11 Pack animal pauses every so often (3) 12 He gripes about good French secretary and old copier (6,5) 13 Welshman, extremely lazy cleaner (5) 14 One doctor with a sharp instrument shows unevenness (9) 16 More expensive mount for 17 causing distress (9) 17 Cut opal embedded in last third of quartz stone (5) 19 What may be carried on board with holes in it (5,6) 22 Shred letters found in graveyard (3) 23 Girl allowed to engage top-class small band (7) 24 It reminds me to let people in (7) 26 ‘Top Town Centre’ award (6) 27 Like airport goods after changing euros, about 10 (3-4)
DOWN
1 Berate artist going in to raise offer (7) 2 Medicine costs spoiled church school subject (8,7) 3 Deer, extremely large kind originally (3) 4 It’s designed to detect some submarines on a raid (5) 5 Son Henry fills food container — it carries books too (9) 6 Old story-teller makes adult sit up (5) 7 Inactive investor makes a hash of representing pal (8,7) 8 Awkward turn follows hairpin at end of course? Wrong (6) 12 Corbyn puts alternate in underground chamber (5) 14 Mutton dish would be wiser stirred with this (5,4) 15 Loose-limbed drunk man (5) 16 Throw out Austen novel (6) 18 Delaware backs energy company’s form of address there (3,4) 20 Leave resort on the Adriatic (5) 21 Irish patriot, old colonist (5) 25 Blend 1000 with 9 (3)