DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Sweet new drug like this leads to hospital trial (7,7) 9 Wholly fashionable Oz dog (2,4) 10 Big road sign containing aluminium put in wrong position (8) 11 Graduates welcome home counties students for game (8) 13 Change into suit (6) 15 Beat drums excessively? Yes (6) 17 It secures end of deltoid in part of joint (6) 19 Live for many years, fit (6) 20 Monitor work in old railway company (8) 22 In charge of stopping 1930s commercial rivalry (5,3) 24 Engineers aren’t able to withdraw (6) 26 Scary lice were spread over top of pate like worms (6-8)

DOWN

1 Small brown untidy red beard disguising Arab leader (8-6) 2 Somewhat histrionic group of performers (4) 3 I’m so excited mother’s brought round plant (6) 4 Iron is able to be worked on (8) 5 Invoice for poster (4) 7 This writer’s upset during pious sermon (6) 8 Royal nurses didn’t like lofty moral attitude (4-10) 12 Source of poet’s inspiration found in incinerator (5) 14 Wood belonging to Grace Darling (5) 16 How to interrupt conversation? Brandish wedge, say (8) 18 Dread Home Office men seizing radicals (6) 21 Clever wife invested in scrap (6) 23 Prison guard loses top man (4) 25 Stylish U.S. city? Not in the past (4)

SOLUTION TO PRIZE CROSSWORD No 15,772: ACROSS: 1 Hullaballoo. 9 Harmful. 10 Reorder. 11 Ago. 12 Bow-wows. 13 Wrongly. 14 Air. 15 Fable. 17 Tepee. 18 Rehab. 20 Indic. 22 Nod. 24 Cape Cod. 25 Catmint. 26 See. 27 Ski jump. 28 Learner. 29 Guest worker. DOWN: 1 Hero-worshipping. 2 Lift off. 3 Atlas. 4 Arrowhead. 5 Lookout. 6 Old-age pensioner. 7 Phobia. 8 Argyle. 16 Blind spot. 18 Recess. 19 Because. 21 Catwalk. 23 Dotard. 25 Cello.

No 15,775 PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 15,775, PO BOX 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be postma