DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Mechanics has modified devices producing notes (4,8) 8 Free from restraint, heartless uncle has gone off (7) 9 The rest told stories about drinking whiskey (3-4) 11 Resistance job: getting on hostile boats first (10) 12 Phone band (4) 14 Charge ME state and Cambodia for row of carriers (4,4) 16 Note about cheese ingredient (6) 17 Scottish one playing part (3) 19 Leading article describes right place to tie up (6) 21 Secretary learnt dancing from mother perhaps (8) 24 Beat European record (4) 25 The orator’s nasty complaint? (4,6) 27 Provided one in fact that’s put on a pedestal (7) 28 Jew once swallowed cold plant extract (7) 29 Rabbit and yak tripe (4,8)

DOWN

1 Visit TV and its doctor’s means of travel (4,3) 2 Carol hoards stuff, not much (10) 3 Lots trap a boar, reddish-brown (8) 4 Mark unknown settlement (6) 5 Almost perfect conception (4) 6 Weathering by water or ice, or noise possibly (7) 7 Roughly gauged client taking in second friend in Idaho (12) 10 Fool man wearing funny things such as pyjamas (12) 13 Leonard accepts the German legwear and shorts there (10) 15 Sleep in rubble container topless (3) 18 Unidentified male swimming in loch (8) 20 Salesman about to receive large current copy (7) 22 Hammer tiger skin with weight (7) 23 Magic five perform in three circles (6) 26 Journalist abandons excellent town in Scotland (4)

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