DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 One of us dined after formal (7) 5 Start meal, entertaining adult (6) 9 Red coat designed in style of the 1930s (3, 4) 10 The German guards breach fishing boat (7) 11 One of ten we have to earn at the beginning (3) 12 Sins by Asian troubled people in Africa once (11) 13 Animal in South America, Ulster maybe, and Italy (5) 14 A dispute with boss over rare part of old weapon (9) 16 Muscle, one found in girl in particular (9) 17 Girl wants one compact (5) 19 He’ll be needed if freighter explodes (11) 22 Tea perhaps served in this stylish service (3) 23 Circular, it appears in early spring (7) 24 That bubble half burst in jacuzzi (7) 26 I’m sorry to hear that poem here in speech? (2,4) 27 He could turn into a nice altar boy, given a brain (7)

DOWN

1 Bank cards at the back in photograph (7) 2 Ban the timeshare reforms at once (2,3,4,6) 3 Top club perhaps provides best service (3) 4 Beginning to explore by circling about dark wood (5) 5 Guide already across street, given wrong directions (3,6) 6 Marriage? A sore point for 11, heading off (5) 7 Harry to study catering or other homebased work (7,8) 8 Removed tangled reeds limiting amateur (6) 12 Defence one entered, jumping bail (5) 14 You may see this in zoo at rebuilt gorilla cages (9) 15 Prison officer loses right boot (5) 16 Nearly fell in, for instance, but out of danger (6) 18 Award title to aristocrat in Henley banks snubbed (7) 20 Incorrect sort of 16 Down, missing bottom (5) 21 A limb tilts up now and then, supported by this? (5) 25 Excessively short implement (3)

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