IRISH DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Leaderless city follows Castro, showing allegiance (8) 5 Two men in a tangle (6) 9 Contemplative cow, for instance (8) 10 Attractive girl’s at work, helping (6) 12 Get rid of nervous tic, but only some of it (4) 13 A street boy eating leftovers is star student (10) 15 Personal life-cover taken out? That shows confidence (4-9) 19 Taking chances, left new units in charge after work (13) 23 Editor cracks open dark bottle, the pig (6,4) 25 Nothing in cash dispenser? Just a tiny amount (4) 28 Like isolated communities, asleep when king visits (6) 29 Idle in pub, collecting jobseeker’s allowance on time (8) 30 Ridicule Des defending Tories’ heartland? (6) 31 Gerry runs out to grab complex tome for maths topic (8)
DOWN
1 Didn’t remember to go in for tea, say (6) 2 Refuse tips in depression (5) 3 Mum left Le Mans for different town in France (4) 4 Is one crushed by swimmer in this African country? (7) 6 Island in Pacific governed by Ayatollah (5) 7 Note nice leg, potentially ideal for TV (9) 8 Left role probing legal document (8) 11 Hotel abandons Hibernian flag (4) 14 Brief description on jacket is obscure (4) 15 Irish clan member’s first to leave for 30 days (9) 16 Child that accompanies Lumière in show at night (3) 17 Majority of bible in scripture class learnt by this? (4) 18 Dr Gibson treated thrush, perhaps (8) 20 Drive Golf into river (4) 21 Concentrated when batting, unable to relax (7) 22 Fashion this with my forge (6) 24 Father eats rare European quail (5) 26 Article on newspaper crime (5) 27 Sort of 3 career (4)