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 16,535, 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 Changing again? Only in Berkshire town (11) 9 Calm when taken to court about robbery initially (7) 10 Part in which I feel at ease ... (7) 11 ... before appearing in Cinderella (3) 12 Expert’s second to be despatched (7) 13 One admiring golf supporter following SW county briefly (7) 14 Cool female article (3) 15 Forgetting case, collect revolutionary instrument (5) 17 Like popular courses from lecturer – unambiguous (5) 18 CID search for this quiet cover (5) 20 Reckon baby’s
awake? (3,2) 22 Discard upset writer’s
conclusion (3) 24 Migrating plaice gulp
gallons of ocean (7) 25 One about to enter
the pit in a twist (7) 26 Ring head office? I’m
surprised (3) 27 Fine cash dispenser stuffed with flyers about health spa (3,4) 28 Images registered here about special wine in Athens (7) 29 Went through 12 (11)
DOWN
1 Risky activity involves spinning round (7,8) 2 Paint account Cyril forged (7) 3 Weary horse died (5) 4 Harry boasted about working out launch? (9) 5 Freeze writer’s right to restrain boss (3,4) 6 Relative organised large ditch to hide £1,000 (5-10) 7 Service one fine compact range (6) 8 Broadcast edited western, not Wayne’s last (6) 16 One who’s after majority, damaging morale etc (9) 18 Pass on soft drink, stale (3,3) 19 Play golf with a representative – it’s illuminating (3,4) 21 Prudent law enforcers briefly gather it (7) 23 Block article, one from southern Europe (6) 25 Mob’s cache reported (5)
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