CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

FOR your chance to win, solve the crossword to reveal the word reading down the shaded boxes. HOW TO ENTER: Call 0901 293 6233 and leave today’s answer and your details, or TEXT 65700 with the word CRYPTIC, your answer and your name. Texts and calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. Or enter by post by sending completed crossword to Daily Mail Prize Crossword 16,242, PO Box 28, Colchester, Essex CO2 8GF. Please include your name and address. One weekly winner chosen from all correct daily entries received between 00.01 Monday and 23.59 Friday. Postal entries must be date-stamped no later than the following day to qualify. Calls/texts must be received by 23.59; answers change at 00.01. UK residents aged 18+, exc NI. Terms apply, see Page 60.

ACROSS

1 D-shaped house advertisement (12) 8 A guide for naive couples man mislaid, like many plants (7) 9 The lowest note on score, unless marked at the start (7) 11 Look nonstop at home with nothing in it (10) 12 Contents of prison cell in the past (4) 14 Annually grow unlimited enzyme producer (8) 16 Writer’s unfortunately sent back sausage (6) 17 Lay ram on its back (3) 19 Suddenly enter Irish game, gaining point (6) 21 Fussy heartless girl tucks into mixed gins (8) 24 Second parasite (4) 25 Police clad differently for petty crime (10) 27 Bar trouble interrupts band (7) 28 Futile slogan for conservationists? (7) 29 Women on plane waste dresses misbehaving (12)

DOWN

1 Get up late to pinch fish heading north (5,2) 2 Train Tom as super replacement for these? (10) 3 Aged Poles wear headgear in icy spell (4,4) 4 Memory stick? That might be scraping the barrel (6) 5 Turn up part of Jean-Luc’s bone (4) 6 Country people burst into song (7) 7 U.S. city runner grabs ruler and office machine (5,7) 10 Tough enemies disputed place of worship (7,5) 13 Guide nagged Jess to get a feature of Rocky Mountains? (10) 15 Daily Star or another paper (3) 18 Medical solution can remedy temperature internally (8) 20 Mark paid revised energy price on time (7) 22 Bug, one left on large headland (7) 23 Church officer very nearly secures a little work (6) 26 Struggle with stance (4)

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