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 16,738, 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 58.
ACROSS
6 In my view it could be the horizon (2,3,2,1,3,3) 9 Pattern, largely knitted, missing last of wool (6) 10 Annoy Irish judge about computer systems (8) 11 It may be grand if I dressed up, but it’s beneath me (5,3) 13 Finish what dog, pig
and stag all do (6) 15 Soldiers treat
trauma (6) 17 Heading west, bash into tree and shrub (6) 19 RAF unexpectedly in charge of a huge land mass (6) 20 King in 19 somehow has time to produce flyer (8) 22 Coffee bar sold boxes as support for builder (8) 24 Complex machine avoiding hard projections here (6) 26 Tunneller crushed landowner circling right and left (6,8)
DOWN
1 RSM’s one with outright bid to acquire cut diamonds (7,7) 2 Judge ignored by
second suspect (4) 3 Like bacon and eggs touring northern China (6) 4 Only just frighten disheartened lady rounding Cape (8) 5 Good property custodians control a pest (4) 7 Like nettles, some
lasting years (6) 8 Doctor deftly examined wider clan (8,6) 12 Arm supporters organising raid to seize island (5) 14 Scare off grazers
eating tons (5) 16 Snake in far-flung parts of Canada? No (8) 18 Grocery chain opens new Quebec exchange (6) 21 What 16 does to make
you flinch? (6) 23 Illegal action in game
that’s revolting (4) 25 Standard choice of
adjacent letters? (4)