CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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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 16,418, 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 62.

ACROSS

6 Nearly stop a nasty scene involving bishop’s time off (5,2,7) 9 Norway lobsters affected in South Island (6) 10 Space rock requires

a booster (8) 11 A couple tour place,

getting cut off (8) 13 Don’t delay swapping parts for maintenance (6) 15 Misguided epicure’s non-U requirements for dish (6) 17 Bar journey in Home

Counties (6) 19 Pulse worried intellectual? Not half! (6) 20 Enable pi to be worked out but not refined (8) 22 Don’t forget about

subscriber (8) 24 Mince meat with chopped egg? Yes, egg possibly (6) 26 See pork course prepared about right, using this? (8,6)

DOWN

1 Illegal trader flogs mackerel at kerb (5,9) 2 Friendly women’s means of defence (4) 3 Retain various images registered here (6) 4 Block old black lorry briefly entering street (8) 5 Taunt well off dealer in gems (4) 7 US agent defends regulation that’s defective (6) 8 Flimsy light transforms entire channels (7,7) 12 One Parisian labour organisation turns rough (5) 14 Cutter provided in

heart of Orkneys (5) 16 Top Cambridge sportsperson’s post with Tory? (4-4) 18 It’s hard to find article in foreign press (6) 21 For example, award

put up for drink (6) 23 Rest while visiting

middle of Greece (4) 25 Kipling’s work upset

English chap (4)

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