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 16,360, 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 datestamped 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 66.

ACROSS

1 We set out to top a rotten edible tuber (5,6) 9 See — introduction to Enigma code is wrong (7) 10 Daughter in Ulster cooked dessert (7) 11 Eggs produced by oriole at regular intervals (3) 12 Went wandering in Spain to do what some climbers do (7) 13 Go back on fresh green fuel, margins having dropped (7) 14 One may wear it or see it 12? (3) 15 Horse painter, relative of 14? (5) 17 European politician, extremely thirsty, used bottle (5) 18 Latin dictionary too much for language group (5) 20 Finish meal to get warm in East End? (3,2) 22 Hairs standing up, almost where it happens? (3) 24 Moneylender retired, secure (7) 25 Carrier vital for one withlung problem? (7) 26 Learner leaves to beat poor driving weather (3) 27 A rich eccentric inspiring writer’s illusion (7) 28 For instance, third test is interrupted by uproar (7) 29 He often raises glass to Daisy who’s eating pig food (11)

DOWN

1 One in pool’s brief, pithy and trained by good person (9,6) 2 Plaintive version of English with Gaelic (7) 3 That place, if mentioned twice, is comforting (5) 4 Eagle-eyed old boy with valet (9) 5 Lay out a place to prepare food across river (7) 6 Ideal person, eg getting on somehow? (3-3,9) 7 Plug very short book frequently, say (6) 8 Eastern record bores crafty member of septet in film (6) 16 What aggressive snooker players do for a fry-up perhaps (9) 18 Bug modern cult (6) 19 Disease caught Lahore ill-prepared (7) 21 Paper’s first editor sculpted stone (7) 23 Annually everyone goes up to eat energy dish (6) 25 Pythagoras’s square? (5)

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