DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

No 15,828

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ACROSS

1 Broadcast avoids ordinary piece of music (7) 5 It’s silly importing small bananas (6) 9 Head of sport’s ignored illness of children (7) 10 Supplicant at altar absorbs choral work (7) 11 Carrier offering some advantages (3) 12 Using this technique school can set up ad, saving time (3,3,5) 13 Film lecturer and philosopher (5) 14 Former liberal hugs one nervous girl in merry-goround (9) 16 Reverse wagon on board? That’s easily managed (9) 17 Famous school backed duke (5) 19 Jump on one touching salad ingredient (6,5) 22 Horse finished, by the sound of it (3) 23 Tract of grassland left to be cultivated (7) 24 Examine bug running round quietly (7) 26 Apéritif for each teacher heading west (6) 27 Estate seemed out of place around north (7)

DOWN

1 Quiet stream not entirely left to dry up (7) 2 He keeps a racing car key designed for cab (7,8) 3 Ruminant about to eat duck (3) 4 Start shooting film perhaps (5) 5 Popular writer’s saving a little money for carrot (9) 6 Dawn French, one cutting drink (3-2) 7 Eye problem possibly making NHS residents age (4-11) 8 Reprobate to request group leader to accept notice (3,3) 12 Copy editor’s mark in ‘The Caretaker’ (6) 14 Trap something to eat round the edges, like geese (3-6) 15 Right to hold over new material (5) 16 Coach lets us brawl (6) 18 One caught promoting daughter to top eatery (7) 20 What sometimes replaced 15 only annoyed nurses at first? (5) 21 Current parliament raised Greek epic (5) 25 Leaders in school uncover major problem there (3)