DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Solid business first to make agreement (7) 5 Lose money on Scottish island (6) 9 Stand in for someone on holiday, say (7) 10 Cider manufactured originally with Cyprus bananas (7) 11 Victor and French doctor (3) 12 What strimmer may be doing at the front (7-4) 13 Prevent contents being returned? Certainly not (5) 14 Gale or typhoon’s beginning in Windsor and Maidenhead (9) 16 A job with new Clio designed for James or Peter perhaps (9) 17 Former Wimbledon champion’s cricket trophy (5) 19 Net earnings? They make OAP angry (4-4,3) 22 Heavyweight head leaves college (3) 23 Endurance’s mainmast needs rebuilding, all but top (7) 24 For every 100 trained apprentices PA is picked out (3,4) 26 Show off Florida relative (6) 27 Put out flyer during first half of sermon (7)
DOWN
1 Irish county welcoming artist’s mobile home (7) 2 A bottle of firewater? (7,8) 3 Some gorilla perhaps (3) 4 Message, very short, inserted in Times (5) 5 Fervent footballer approaches clubs about Scotsman (9) 6 Sign of indifference appearing in Welsh rugby (5) 7 Supplied with many weapons, he treated them to burst (5,2,3,5) 8 Solve clue about unknown minute theatre (6) 12 Weight of stone, one kept in box briefly (5) 14 Need to tackle English students and writer with good aim (4-5) 15 Suspicious cast receive notice (5) 16 Show where to see 17 contested (6) 18 Member of upper house stammered ‘Treason!’ (7) 20 Short poem has always intrigued Kyoto union leaders (5) 21 Feature of Edinburgh tattoos and stones around east (5) 25 A cluster of superior medals won here (3)