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 16,478, 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

6 Who could begin this part of sentence? (8,6) 9 Profitable American fuel should be distributed (6) 10 A few grab weightless underwater arm (8) 11 Short chap on international trip gives advice (8) 13 I like traffic controller, venerated by many (6) 15 Uncover old model (6) 17 Come to a hill (6) 19 Shakespearian character’s foot (6) 20 Some nearly miscalculated location of beds (8) 22 Aircraft equipped for snow steer clear of path (3-5) 24 To communicate in Somalia is exhausting (6) 26 Chance to relax thorax, for example? (9,5)

DOWN

1 Stressful situation, wasting resources in card game (8,6) 2 Division reduced? Sign on staff (4) 3 Hot shawl, new (6) 4 Small capitals supply silvery metal (8) 5 Monk’s wool supplier left out (4) 7 Assessed very dry river banks from below (6) 8 Egocentric ref nettles side after hammering (4-10) 12 Dorothy’s taken over disc store (5) 14 Pesky vole eats upper part of plant (5) 16 Support setter’s northbound route via borders of Surrey (8) 18 Bitterness left in turnips after they’re pulled up (6) 21 Enjoy dressing (6) 23 Rumble what campanologists are aiming for (4) 25 Partially open a beer,

say (4)