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 16,354, 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
1 Nation extremely gratefully accepts radical plan of action (8) 5 Delay robbery (6) 9 Pilot Amy‘s heading through Turkey before nine (8) 10 Old cavalryman left note in tree (6) 12 Disheartened boss becomes cook (4) 13 Naively optimistic display yesterday taking in Republican (6-4) 15 Service from Germany Peter and I organised (6,7) 19 Fresh ad recruits guy as bouncer perhaps (8,5) 23 Athlete on Scottish mountain comes across a legume (6,4) 25 A very old western state (4) 28 Called into old English house in the Netherlands (6) 29 Poles had developed a type of lily (8) 30 Saw one in Glasgow wrapped in flag (6) 31 Bill boards flight for a spree (8)
DOWN
1 It’s not easy to find sign of damage on church (6) 2 Under pressure, this increase produces approval (5) 3 Country lacks special place to see artworks (4) 4 Girl set out tough stuff that’s indigestible (7) 6 Egg producer initially objects to change (5) 7 Dodgy offer impresses right winger (5-4) 8 After short display, writer’s accepting German model (8) 11 It carries tiny soft stuff (4) 14 Hospital broadcast producing shock (4) 15 Concerned with money, price yuan differently (9) 16 Occasionally greasy fish (3) 17 Cut up and mark paper (4) 18 Money-grubbing American very angry, losing head (8) 20 Neighbour lifted big instrument (4) 21 Good girls’ binoculars (7) 22 Tense, we have admitted 50, more than quadrupling this (6) 24 Encourage one complex to store goods (3,2) 26 Very old lawyer accepting king’s drink (5) 27 South American native’s almost heart-broken (4)