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 16,413, 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 62.
ACROSS
6 Engineer patiently reran route of some space missions (14) 9 Small parts of monk’s habits produce grimaces (6) 10 Disorderly Sikhs engage Irish male in brief battle (8) 11 Forest animal with surprisingly bold air (4,4) 13 Take on English representative left over at end of July (6) 15 Raise British
swimmer (6) 17 College agreed to
secure 150 bikes (6) 19 Fine parchment employed by highlevel luminaries (6) 20 Engrave words perhaps in cradle in Home Counties (8) 22 Specially-equipped aircraft avoid section of carriageway ... (3-5) 24 ... just holding exercises for all to see (6) 26 Worried choir rang agent to obtain church music (9,5)
DOWN
1 Lap on white horse requires current safety device (7,7) 2 Liberal-minded Tories upended dish (4) 3 Painting of old farm labourer put up by firm (6) 4 Completely new exhaust fitted in fenland city (8) 5 I bumped into upset couple (4) 7 Polish way into attraction (6) 8 Duty could be
tinier possibly (14) 12 Amusing peer
rose and left (5) 14 Icy river, one breaching both sides (5) 16 U.S. friend and comrade ordered to keep quiet (8) 18 Spies lock staff up in building for entertainment (6) 21 Incompetent sort, yob nearly breaks into school (6) 23 Summon union
attendant (4) 25 Cut up front of
morning paper (4)