DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Interview people in theatre (8) 5 Wood beside motorway yields medicinal resin (6) 9 Drivers on road see sanctuary for anteater (8) 10 Small bottles preserve first of the bodily organs (6) 12 Old American newspaper chief (4) 13 Grim Reaper transports everyone born, as does he? (10) 15 Drive ducks around old vehicles (5,8) 19 Ski facility that often ends in disaster (8,5) 23 Best cut one’s drink in Thailand (Bangkok suburbs) (1-4,5) 25 Check out search engine, losing enthusiasm (4) 28 Make cross either side of daughters’ puzzle (6) 29 Defend Scotsman and different newspaper (8) 30 Organise exhibition for priest (6) 31 Sunlit waves hiding a top-class swimmer (8)

DOWN

1 A taxi brought up American calculator (6) 2 Lament revolutionary English network (5) 3 European sailors lack a desire (4) 4 Pirate broadcast follows business leaders in Royal Show (7) 6 Stand up in Paris exhibition (5) 7 It helps yachtsmen grasp reportedly simple task (3,6) 8 Married sisters deviously kept woman (8) 11 British officer upset political alliance (4) 14 Prevent planters turning up (4) 15 How to get this paper sent to you? (4,5) 16 Timid spook (3) 17 Wind instrument means nothing to odd bloke (4) 18 Eccentric coteries understood by only a few (8) 20 Habitual repetition to do with binding books (4) 21 Bone up over in opera house (7) 22 Error by net picked up in this sport (6) 24 Dash! Last of face powder’s upended (5) 26 Question girl running round lake (5) 27 I’m annoyed at GP going first (4)