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 16,575, 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 64.
ACROSS
1 A built-in bed needs repairing, beyond doubt (11) 9 Probe who in France is blocking hot line (7) 10 Exemplary form of verb (7) 11 Finish a chunk of Golden Delicious (3) 12 Like Bob on TV, buried rocks around lake (7) 13 Extremely upset, opening fruit to survive (7) 14 Nearly steer clear of hill runner (3) 15 Stand for artist while spearing fish (5) 17 Run off, following the rules (5) 18 Wilted and forgot lines in play (5) 20 Young insect right in the middle of hot rock (5) 22 Stuff mutton (3) 24 Complaint by old volunteers about English drink (4,3) 25 Soldiers stop early course of treatment (7) 26 Show disapproval of novel with no ending? (3) 27 End fuel supply? It’s what’s required (7) 28 Go through with a guided tour around Spain (4,3) 29 There’s no waiting in this restaurant (4-7)
DOWN
1 Papal tribunal’s cut on jailing seven tortured for spying? (15) 2 Cold wind leads hedges to shrink (7) 3 Carved ruby lures in European customer ... (5) 4 ... having to pay this drunken lord a lot, pence included (3,6) 5 Smell awful rats left in detention centre (7) 6 Levelling proper plant reveals oilproducing plant (7,8) 7 Broadcast by American seizing British plane (6) 8 Oak perhaps blocks extremely straight road (6) 16 In recording, Cilla Black regularly alters parts of speech (9) 18 Ridicule first appearance briefly by new king (6) 19 Occasionally doubt if university lecturer is loyal (7) 21 Stan abandons Asian country, leaving cash there (7) 23 Speechless about latest record (6) 25 One of eight perhaps who’s quarrelling? (5)
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