DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Promising beginning, like Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun’, tense (6,5) 9 Dawn’s irritated Laura embracing old Romeo (7) 10 Award peerage to benevolent comic, ignoring vet (7) 11 Product of 12 appears regularly in socials (3) 12 Clever person manages a hotel somewhere in Gulf (7) 13 Females mob golfer Sandy with a blank sheet (7) 14 Half of Conservatives retreat and go off (3) 15 Muslim lawyer’s civilian clothing (5) 17 Suspend doctor pocketing revised fee (5) 18 Notorious craze absorbs setter (5) 20 Writer participates in very big competitions (5) 22 Gold and black item of royal regalia (3) 24 People in Tripoli destroy any bills after student goes (7) 25 Current device or fitting buried in windy road (7) 26 Set stage the wrong way round (3) 27 Reported fodder nearly all stolen? I’m disappointed (5-2) 28 Extreme in past, for instance (7) 29 Big instruments adorning spa in different places (5,6)
DOWN
1 Meanwhile, invent ‘Before Eight’ mint (3,3, 4,5) 2 Order army to surround a road where sailors hung out (7) 3 Only defective new material needed for stocking (5) 4 He flies out, catching lift oddly in time to eat (5,4) 5 A couple of nouns unknown in dictionary makes you cross (7) 6 It follows soon after 13, displaying notable fonts etc (5,2,8) 7 Brother traps wild bear — and he removes locks! (6) 8 Male provided first lady’s young cow (6) 16 Raise wood in fierce floods, uncovering pyrite maybe (5,4) 18 Lift rocks, extremely heavy and very dirty (6) 19 Old Greek ready in play about church (7) 21 Barely furnished section in hospital (7) 23 Someone who drills round Dutch frontier (6) 25 One wearing church vestment initially invents excuse (5)