DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 15,814, PO BOX 3451, Norwich, NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be postmarked no later than tomorrow. Please make sure you enclose your name and address.
SOLUTION TO PRIZE CROSSWORD No. 15,811 — ACROSS: 1 Dressage. 5 Corona. 9 Seahorse. 10 Shufti. 12 Rite. 13 Gatekeeper. 15 Black and white. 19 Fellow feeling. 23 Unfruitful. 25 Sloe. 28 Ingest. 29 Tapeworm. 30 Notate. 31 Melodeon.
DOWN: 1 Desert. 2 Exalt. 3 Slob. 4 Gas mask. 6 Ochre. 7 Offspring. 8 Apiaries. 11 Keen. 14 Halo. 15 Bullfight. 16 Ace. 17 Wait. 18 Effusion. 20 Feta. 21 Emulate. 22 Sermon. 24 Upset. 26 Loose. 27 Zero. DAILY MAIL New Cryptic Crosswords — pit your wits against 100 of the trickiest cryptic puzzles ever to appear in your favourite paper. This book provides the ideal way to warm up your grey matter for a day’s work, or wind down and relax during those rare spare moments. Available from the Daily Mail Book Shop, call 0844 571 0640 or visit www.mailbookshop.co.uk. P&P free on orders over £15.
ACROSS
1 Start to collect every pic? Bosses do it (4,3,5) 8 Herb’s old wild ass withdrawn (7) 9 Pudding of stewed apricot runs out first of all (7) 11 Like some leaves moving all at once, absorbing energy (10) 12 Some soldiers regularly ruin computers etc. (4) 14 Where people toil hard in Nottinghamshire town (8) 16 Painful experience in gold trade (6) 17 Does it grow in the Ozarks here and there? (3) 19 Film Briton with prince, using odd extracts only (6) 21 Steep gym fee inspires this writer (8) 24 Corruption is back, as it happens (4) 25 Intuitively Victor is really worried about cold (10) 27 Lion is distracted, tackling rare meat (7) 28 Do the same as one couple eating it (7) 29 First female worked with Universal, making these? (7,5)
DOWN
1 Char using carbon, getting less fat (7) 2 Editorial’s up-to-date guidance (10) 3 ‘Cheers’ also entertained a huge number endlessly (6-2) 4 European gallery acquires small property (6) 5 Intensively promote extremely healthy exercise (4) 6 Thump counter furiously (7) 7 Sheepdog, I hear, is staggering, showing nervousness (12) 10 I’ll enter army to be trained as one of these? (12) 13 Proper men call first (10) 15 Mush, whichever way it’s taken (3) 18 Cook follows royal couple carrying one bandana (8) 20 Briefly manage to retain British monarch’s head here (7) 22 A mad king’s holding line, listening intently (3,4) 23 Victor with ring circling bull (6) 26 Attempt to sell fish right away (4)