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 16,474, 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 64.
ACROSS
1 Barber may suggest this quick route (5,3) 5 Second section of Machu Picchu resolved problem (6) 9 Qualified priest with good bible heading off (8) 10 Abduct and put back in bed (6) 12 Hot swimmer, disreputable type (4) 13 Instrument in a prom at the start (10) 15 Prepare a rump steak to host staff in fairground (9,4) 19 Outstanding additional stock (13) 23 Wonderful writer’s twice closed in cupboard (10) 25 Endlessly film chase (4) 28 Stop working in sun at sea, perhaps wearing these? (6) 29 Flour manufacturer recruits chic maker of lids (8) 30 Formally attempts, say, to board English ship (6) 31 Monk’s vow that is somehow breaching clergy’s case (8)
DOWN
1 Notice article and get very angry (6) 2 Salt extracting hydrogen from leather? (5) 3 Grasp the rug he dropped (4) 4 Set free soul one tormented (7) 6 It’s colder here in Paris, zero in the centre (5) 7 Standing in election, Frank approaches a city’s limits (9) 8 Manchester City players gather round for these (3,5) 11 Long successful service in court interrupted by hotel (4) 14 Mountain lion lifted up by its parent (4) 15 Sent a new wrapped music player down under (9) 16 Stop raising bananas (3) 17 Soak up about a single drop of water (4) 18 Price due to be fixed for digital repairs? (8) 20 Perhaps climber climbed (4) 21 Rail engineer given one hour outside (7) 22 Cheer old artist in barge (6) 24 Abrasive soldiers upended Yankee (5) 26 One can pick this up in north India (5) 27 Rich husband leaves bonus (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.