CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
WIN £500
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 16,424, 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 64.
ACROSS
1 Run away to get over a little minor irritant (4,4) 5 London museum looted primarily by him? (6) 9 Golf club with old empty room showing infestation (8) 10 Note dairy product
that’s sent back (6) 12 Appear to be trapped by perverse employer (4) 13 Design a better law for what hydrographers may study (5,5) 15 Agrees enough’s been converted into methane, say (10,3) 19 Additional heraldic feature is most unusual (13) 23 Reticence of former partner to leave popular show (10) 25 Sore way to
erase line (4) 28 Doctor’s tenure needs to be adjusted (6) 29 Jerry-built jet turns
back with a bang (8) 30 Dredge river enclosure (6) 31 It’s composed to captivate lady’s heart (8)
DOWN
1 The smallest number of sheep to be brought in daily (6) 2 Call up first woman receiving fine (5) 3 Blackbird’s wood (4) 4 Land to soak up precipitation (7) 6 Stop daughter abandoning commercial (5) 7 Horse, English carriage and desert vehicle (4,5) 8 Big son starts to support each charity (8) 11 Temperature in freezer obviously (4) 14 Character in Athens beginning to Zoom with neighbour (4) 15 He got dubious employment guarding a city entrance (9) 16 Note about carrier on
building site (3) 17 Examine small tin (4) 18 Left office placard
in grass (8) 20 Just talked about
ceremony (4) 21 Prepare doilies to put
on a pedestal (7) 22 Shout at Labour’s leader in outburst of cheek (6) 24 Rarely used note always
pops up after B (5) 26 Thanks to Royal Academy, I introduced diadem (5) 27 Expert controlling
husband’s pain (4)