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 16,395, 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 68.
ACROSS
1 Make out beauty hugging current rock musician, posh (11) 9 Cook luncheon without oxygen in submerged tube (7) 10 Rank speech, elongated to some extent (7) 11 Wool supplier from New England (3) 12 No less than 80 initially enter after much delay (2,5) 13 Weird sort wearing nothing? It takes one’s breath away (7) 14 Shot in court liquidated old barrister principally (3) 15 Sauce is French, with Italian water round it (5) 17 Old colonist, Irish patriot (5) 18 Scrap outhouse Republican installed (5) 20 Dance artist embraces university doctor (5) 22 Horse & Hound (3) 24 The reason he has been dispatched? (7) 25 Edible plants stick in sediment (7) 26 Tease bloke (3) 27 Regularly beat Tulsa fanatic in gym (7) 28 Make Israel suspect Spain (7) 29 Particular police officers can evict bats (11)
DOWN
1 Like some pieces with hyphenated names (6-9) 2 Southern city representative welcomes a French tanner (7) 3 Tiny portion of land is rented out (5) 4 Mike supports naive bouncer where actors relax (5,4) 5 Hurriedly train in heats (2,5) 6 Many implore hero to develop former superstate (4,5,6) 7 Special stroke in pool that’s hard to interpret (6) 8 Strange tale about new king’s ornamental chain (6) 16 Lots of wild animals here, that’s plain (9) 18 Sibling brings in sheep for exercises (3-3) 19 I had put up with second month’s shocks (7) 21 Stan abandons Asian country and its cash (7) 23 Good escort’s well (6) 25 Cyril rebuilt theatre in Hammersmith (5)
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