DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

Dig near a compound 5 1 to find run-off (8) Doctor in car is a character from Athens (6) 9 Part of intestine is beginning to trouble settler (8) 10 A duck circles around recess (6) 12 Sleep rough in square after parties (4) 13 Use holiday money to have meal with others (5,5) 15 Cook meat and chill liquid contents of bar (4,9) 19 Illness if good onions are chopped with apple core? (4,9) 23 Left caller distraught in urgent call for generators (5,5) 25 Girl’s large beast of burden (4) 28 Woolly coat a supporter found around good hotel (6) 29 Private bike stops working, ending on top (8) 30 Housing in North Carolina, for instance? (6) 31 U.S. backs its car capital? Nothing left, just rubble (8)

DOWN

1 Editor turns up after 1st of last month to settle (6) 2 Finally reduced range (5) 3 Cat lives at home in northeast (4) 4 Cigar’s chewed to suppress tension in stomach (7) 6 Laid out book to make impromptu speech (2-3) 7 Orange mob dispersed, throwing missile (9) 8 Wild deer occupy a Scottish mountain — near here? (8) 11 Edible starch succeeded in the past (4) 14 France cut off Turkey (4) 15 Way of working on land to earn extra income (9) 16 Man’s greetings (3) 17 Old poet, egg-shaped, lacking heart (4) 18 Men only put in reduced offer, not seen by audience (8) 20 Writer’s saving note for article (4) 21 Evasive old Tory retains measure of intelligence (7) 22 Second girl put up property (6) 24 Severely criticise joint on Sunday? (5) 26 Inspect car at end of MOT (5) 27 Hot tune in controversial musical (4)

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