DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tell stories about fourth cousin, say (8) 5 Firm payment includes fine drink (6) 9 Late notice about new railway I installed (8) 10 Electronic gadget always used in rhythm and blues (6) 12 Move carefully, clipping hedges (4) 13 Seeing red kangaroo’s way of moving nuts (7,3) 15 Girl I see outside following, say, very old African ruler (5,8) 19 What absorbs you prior to job? (13) 23 Religious belief cultivated in most homes nearly (10) 25 He keeps a rare animal that’s 13 in spring (4) 28 Stimulate 100 to leave without euros (6) 29 Support team that’s behind (8) 30 Saw one in Glasgow in sink (6) 31 Small bird of prey in 9’s usually white above athis (4,4)

DOWN

1 What Houses do after recess? No peer’s involved (6) 2 What storyteller’s doing stretched out? (5) 3 Trip to ancient city (4) 4 Long-winded first half of book’s boring poetry (7) 6 Not the place for unstable canoe (5) 7 Order member to release mother and child (9) 8 Stood for English doctor who finally passed away (8) 11 Chap’s enthusiastic about this part of church (4) 14 Element quarried from quartz in Cambodia (4) 15 Handy cure stirred up uproar (3,3,3) 16 Drink broth with nothing removed (3) 17 Like conditions in the Kalahari desert (4) 18 Mobile meat marketeers? (8) 20 Instruments give nation two ways to go (4) 21 Do without a bookmark (7) 22 Greatly admire Paul, US patriot (6) 24 Italian artist ignored one very strong character (5) 26 Liberal taken in by excellent defence in court (5) 27 Small gardens, not symmetrical (4)

NO 14918 PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 14,918, PO BOX 3451, Norwich, NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be...