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 16,548, 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 Lost curate found on rocks round front of cathedral (11,3) 9 Superior golf with a state in Africa (6) 10 Best idea fixed disorder (8) 11 Plant midshipman in Tennessee (4,4) 13 Test hawk across lines (3,3) 15 Ornate gold withdrawn by companies (6) 17 Seafood is about to be sent round tents (6) 19 Model helps to clothe Conservative in drag (6) 20 Colonist initially holds a single communal event involving Yankee (8) 22 Make aerial attack on seedy bar and fail completely (4-4) 24 Polish run away and disappear (6) 26 Lots of different turns in this Catholic club? (9,5)
DOWN
1 There’s no point in this ill-mannered group hosting king (6,8) 2 Veto new farm building (4) 3 Group in Antarctic eagerly revealing glacial period (3,3) 4 The drink’s almost all intact after disturbance (8) 5 Superiority claimed by landed gentry (4) 7 Foiled a French academic at end of lecture (6) 8 Second and third of courses representing body offering them (4,10) 12 Outclass swimmer, about 90 (5) 14 Working mum put in years, becoming irresistible (5) 16 Award poet penning ‘Old Storage Unit’ (8) 18 Fear worrying a bishop missing sabbath (6) 21 Ring Indonesian about American Indian (6) 23 Covet area abandoned by European sailors (4) 25 Large Scotsman’s turned up collar (4)
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