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 16,894, 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+, excl NI. Terms apply, see Page 56.
ACROSS
1 Somebody in Hollywood shoots sailor (4,4) 5 Told to lie in sun in close-fitting bodice (6) 9 Line up on time for display in Badminton (8) 10 Amateur oddly like fighter in compound (6) 12 Parrot that follows delta (4) 13 Forger boycotts old wives’ tale, so I hear (10) 15 Check flower’s second appearance (13)
19 Large injection in damaged disc felt fine, applied by me (4-9)
23 Hot couscous mixed with pressure and some trickery (5-5)
25 More than one round fossil, second half missing (4)
28 Yank operating
flame-thrower? (6)
29 Illegal tunnel here and there getting gruesome (8)
30 Left a box Liberal abandoned not long ago (6)
31 Doctor replies with a framework for training (8)
DOWN
1 Farmer initially has more
unusual hay perhaps (6) 2 Shelter chief
doctor once (5)
3 Son has broken
frame with glass (4)
4 Sweet aromatic plant’s
last to disappear (7)
6 Book range (5)
7 Subjected to restrictions, passed exams (9)
8 Revealing moment: northbound tube has nearly reached city (8)
11 Briefly frighten Mark (4) 14 Female judge welcomed
in two Pacific islands (4) 15 Disinclined to rave about
clue solved on time (9)
16 It’s designed to bore everyone, some might say (3)
17 Book performers (4)
18 Plant shop transposed
into rocky dale (8)
20 Sell game that’s hung
upside down (4)
21 Region in South America’s promoting current lizards (7)
22 Fan maybe exhibiting
less enthusiasm (6)
24 Lots of swimmers in area
of shallow water (5)
26 Religious leader’s
civilian dress (5)
27 Long story of
small range (4)