CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

WIN £500

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 16,362, 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 datestamped 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 60.

ACROSS

1 Base calculation on odd rise in part of Europe (3,9) 8 Dante is absurd as a replacement (7) 9 Newspaper goes in to slate first keyboard player (7) 11 Criticise what bakers do, I hear, with crooked pegs? (5-5) 12 Contact sheet (4) 14 What kids like at seaside, left boring unneeded material (8) 16 Spring border chaos (6) 17 Old man, one visiting daughters (3) 19 Container, huge one, first to be discharged (6) 21 Water in Turkey spoils Rob’s soup (8) 24 Ducks drink litres (4) 25 Harsh university impounds car, not quite crammed (10) 27 Hairstyle that

creates a buzz? (7) 28 Practise wrestling without one? That’s impossible (7) 29 Freud studied this boat business cousins managed (12)

DOWN

1 Roped in girl with dictionary (7) 2 What Derek will spread round centre of field? (10) 3 Green minister with old money accepting big noise (8) 4 Check up about very quiet child (6) 5 Clear out lots of paper (4) 6 Inscription in stone hidden in untidy heap (7) 7 Hear Greek character book and pay (4,2,3,3) 10 Worried mothers get complaints about small picnic item (7,5) 13 Italian composer briefly tucked into Don’s drink (10) 15 Good speaker has a gift of this case from the south (3) 18 Fight at home daily (8) 20 Flatten out leaves in rice dish, missing one (7) 22 Key house members start to relish dessert (7) 23 Imprison trainee

worker (6) 26 One’s in Washington

making record (4)

NEED A CLUE? Text TIP to 65700 to receive FOUR answers to today’s crossword, or call 0901 293 6236. Texts and calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. Today’s clues available between 00.01 today and 23.30 only.