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 16,490, 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 70.
ACROSS
1 Garage worker admits one way is purely physical (11) 9 After 1945, letters were actually rare at first (4-3) 10 One who delivers the Daily Mail (no stamp unfortunately) (7) 11 Broadcast song (3) 12 In a perfect world I would really avoid resistance (7) 13 Old, plump and pompous (7) 14 Left ducks somewhere to go (3) 15 Prettify border in pages (5) 17 Informant in New York sent back English cutter (5) 18 Difficult question for model (5) 20 Employed in Ulster on odd occasions (2,3) 22 The old women’s tree (3) 24 Surveying angle, a variable one at estuary, ignoring hole (7) 25 Old bishop in church court put right (7) 26 Where to seek cure in newspaper (3) 27 Deal lacks radical touch (7) 28 Old compiler’s last to be given first prize (7) 29 Application requiring a joint effort? (5,6)
DOWN
1 Acts and ceremonies strangely enthral female graduate (6,2,7) 2 Firm decline to cover up wife’s bloomer (7) 3 Display artillery replacing third of army (5) 4 Musical piece writer’s put off following concert (9) 5 After first in Turnberry American hit clump of grass (7) 6 Local meeting place is posh, it would seem (9,6) 7 Tough university hospital probes tablet (6) 8 Tense diver stands here (2,4) 16 Dish is cooked with 23s (5,4) 18 Fish I set outside (6) 19 Red stalks husband in game, gaining point (7) 21 Land mass destabilises sea air around tip of Peru (7) 23 Get dry — and whiter possibly (6) 25 Nurse’s CV lacking effort at the beginning (5)
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