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 16,481, 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 In which flyer steers and feathers fly (7) 5 Short miner’s dog (6) 9 A superior part conceals European golden ring (7) 10 What’s hiding in sumac? A querulous tree-dweller (7) 11 Nearly dispense with footwear on slope (3) 12 Tsar at home demoting earl’s line (11) 13 Depressed individual embraces posh Arab (5) 14 It could be the main hookah perhaps (5,4) 16 Strangely, a FrenchAmerican friend stores uranium (9) 17 Groom very softly circles flank (5) 19 For aviaries being rebuilt a tactful approach is needed (6-5) 22 Lug a small amount of cereal (3) 23 The sort of pursuit in which to beat troops (7) 24 He overcame the Minotaur and the southeastern states (7) 26 Woman’s precious stones (6) 27 Judge heartless routine stoppage in horse show (7)
DOWN
1 Charles is importing special framework (7) 2 School studies Evita’s revised life story (10,5) 3 Post Office enlist radical expert (3) 4 Article on engineers in that place (5) 5 Observe gripping performance coming together neatly (9) 6 It’s clear carbon in liquid’s beginning to disappear (5) 7 Popular Queen’s visit is possibly what journalist needs (15) 8 Admire minister stopping short of North Dakota (6) 12 Stop working in a uniform for so long (5) 14 Oscar’s defending evergreen indicators of climate change? (9) 15 Pity about Europe wasting its money, a little in India (5) 16 Outcome of lob? (6) 18 It shades soldiers round lake (7) 20 Whitish yellow plant that climbs fencing (5) 21 Bury’s season doesn’t begin (5) 25 German XI feel fulfilled to some extent (3)
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