DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Reduce load? Busmen cried, amazingly (11) 9 WE Johns pilot dropped 50 tons? None greater (7) 10 Representative emerges from clay-pit in bad shape (7) 11 Plant’s in the way in Paris (3) 12 Final outing doesn’t begin on horseback (7) 13 Aren’t I barmy collecting money for old clothes (7) 14 No score in international in Holland (3) 15 Odd parts of Greece correctly returned reptile (5) 17 Goodness! It’s different inside and blurred (5) 18 Flower that’s held under the chin by person in pit? (5) 20 Go into part of hospital with leading lady (5) 22 Setter’s beginning to provoke monkey (3) 24 Practical English politician meets Irish in charge (7) 25 It creates pleasant odour in tragic scene (7) 26 Exceptional pieces of vellum used by joiner (3) 27 Board at Victoria aren’t surprisingly elected (7) 28 Studio swallowed story recounted originally (7) 29 Old-fashioned salad plant devised by 6? (11)

DOWN

1 Hand-operated calculator? Adult got 24 designed (7,8) 2 What’s riddle for? Cook gives in (7) 3 Disconcertingly, explosive’s in this the wrong way (5) 4 The majority speak first at the furthest limit (9) 5 Pat is trained in British Museum naming ceremony (7) 6 NASA boffin’s test etc. is in Cork? That’s absurd (6,9) 7 Most of tat is found in old rubbish container (6) 8 German settled on axes with showy appeal (6) 16 Revised score limits Chopin’s first coda getting louder (9) 18 He inspects 5 sheep in Ireland (6) 19 Area round top of Bridge Street’s level (7) 21 Do another test to do with person from Prague, say (7) 23 U.S. author to attempt what Pound produced there (6) 25 Leads to insect maturing and going off? Yes (5)

NO 14885 PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 14,885, PO BOX 3451, Norwich, NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be postma