IRISH DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Outstanding senior policeman delayed four drills (11) 9 Treble and tenor produce three notes (7) 10 Ill-fated king entertained by a French girl (7) 11 Shoemaker uses it for everything, reportedly (3) 12 It’s fine taking a run in racing cars, small ones (2-5) 13 Organ solo played staccato, with no introduction (7) 14 There’s trouble in Ecuador (3) 15 Young man repulsed by smell – he shows aggression (5) 17 Pamphlet thrown back in dust-cart (5) 18 Teaching English under canvas? (5) 20 Small record company didn’t drive odd characters away (5) 22 Pub, one with two names (3) 24 What’s produced by rambler bored us silly (7) 25 Ministers start to cavil somewhat about Yorkshire, say (7) 26 Dirty accommodation for 60, not 9 (3) 27 Ruin large old exhaust (5,2) 28 Hannibal initially abandoned his city’s transport (7) 29 Rancid cutlet involved in scare? There’s one in Badminton (11)
DOWN
1 Countess stoking clashes? Don’t be put off (5,2,4,4) 2 Player managed to secure fine old docile horse (7) 3 Work schedules break down when followed (5) 4 Notice posh officer with criminal in last stage of life (9) 5 Diced chilli hotel ejected? It’s forbidden (7) 6 Reform income tax with endless malarky! (11,4) 7 It’s modified, genetically modified, on a part of plant (6) 8 Unknown artist arrested by explosive autocrat (6) 16 No view here of sloshed drunkard draped over piano (5,4) 18 Buzz personnel in farm (6) 19 Bill’s on the water in Paris creating scene (7) 21 English doctor in the past tackled rare blockage (7) 23 Crackpot’s the centre of attention, say (6) 25 Fancy clergyman cadging ride! (5)