DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Kent alter ego participating in jujitsu permanently (8) 5 Humid day came to an end (6) 9 e.g. bridge appeared to straddle a road — good (4,4) 10 A medic provided treatment finally at sea (6) 12 Active person in Channel port? Not very (4) 13 Intimidated Scottish PM admits defeat by English (10) 15 A Parisian tucks into burned pasta, cooked more than enough (13) 19 Carol and Pearl on manoeuvres with NCO — this one? (5,8) 23 Belief of Ptolemy and his sort? (10) 25 Does old man with hungry heart feel this? (4) 28 Squeeze cropped form into amended text (6) 29 Oversight? Ring embassy (8) 30 Union soldier that’s followed by Zulu (6) 31 Flawless runner managed to inspire one German (8)
DOWN
1 Withdraw notice about this in France and Germany (6) 2 Analyse golfer’s standard scores at end of game (5) 3 At regular intervals, arranges student fundraisers (4) 4 Fan drier absorbs damp in odd places (7) 6 Promise to scrub top shelf (5) 7 Missionary isn’t quietly cutting his original name (5,4) 8 Revolutionary Greek character, well known, set off (8) 11 With which sister wipes a baby initially? (4) 14 Part of church and perhaps ecclesiastical houses (4) 15 The only one in a suit and vest, working (9) 16 Broadcast song (3) 17 Standard choice of adjacent letters? (4) 18 It’s hard to hold mule close to donkey (8) 20 Follow medal at end of July (4) 21 He delivers Daily Mail with no stamp unfortunately (7) 22 Drink, say, going up after one leaves (6) 24 Start to translate old Irish, using few words (5) 26 Liberal taken in by excellent defence in court (5) 27 Primarily the supreme autocrat, leader of Russians (4)