DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Item at end of sonnet? (7) 5 Source of heat in the art house (6) 9 A thousand put in crazy offer for share of profits (4-3) 10 Decide to do crossword again? (7) 11 Number participating in network (3) 12 Doctor uses it to cover wall that’s absorbent (6,5) 13 Phoned English sweep (5) 14 Wrote now and then to ask a person down (9) 16 Part of NI ignores Yankee quiz on TV (9) 17 Rearing this sort of jumper could be nerve-racking (1-4) 19 Unit in St Helens in need of refurbishing even so (11) 22 You forgot about bizarre aircraft (3) 23 Womble’s big flower (7) 24 Bloke returns to Ibiza, avoiding unknown African country (7) 26 Try cutting tree all back to reveal this one? (6) 27 Endanger royal? Area must be cleared (7)

DOWN

1 Museum boss confuses actor about ancient city (7) 2 Unpredictable person X? (7,8) 3 Left ducks in smallest room (3) 4 Mother’s leaving dogs in rows (5) 5 Laborious article supports Poirot (9) 6 Story-teller picks up main work (5) 7 Huge figure that may be unobtainable (9,6) 8 One of Obama’s two qualifications (6) 12 Article on daily crime (5) 14 Healthy ladies briefly tour parts of golf course (9) 15 The king lives in different places (5) 16 Soldier stops prisoner in part of Switzerland (6) 18 Quiz champion on walk bewildered by student (4-3) 20 Communist eats superior fish (5) 21 Tedium continues mysteriously after cutting cost (5) 25 Tree turns up, not large, in chart (3)

No 15,409 PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 15,409, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be postmarked no...