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 16,680, 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 date-stamped 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 Dealing with new students at start of term needing food (11) 9 International composer visits Hawaii for barbecue (7) 10 Press etc note

referee (7) 11 Nearly jump over

grassy area (3) 12 Spy cases a new hotel

opening in street (7) 13 Token minimum invested in foreign loan (7) 14 One who examines Conservative party first (3) 15 Follow parent’s

teaching (5) 17 Clever woman

welcomed in Cyprus (5) 18 Communist impressed

by firm belief (5) 20 IT company imports

each type of girder (1-4) 22 Maybe leaves in this trophy (3) 24 Couple possess revolutionary chopper (7) 25 Singer occasionally rebelled during conflict (7) 26 Remains of fire when hot (3) 27 Bright light exposing a Republican vice (3,4) 28 ‘I see the point’ sounds like a total lack of warmth (7) 29 Remove attraction of carved andesite gem (11)

DOWN

1 Messenger in cells appears briefly in middle of usernames (11,4) 2 Dodgy information from FA clubs to papers (7) 3 Send away textile,

ignoring times (5) 4 All of us smell a lot of drivers invading Durham, say (5,4) 5 Finish mice off, confined

to one area (7) 6 Neglecting oral, I arranged place for budding teachers (8,7) 7 Article on sea with a

motif (6) 8 Are you sure Spain is entering motoring event? (6) 16 Cavy, the subject of

experiment (6,3) 18 Fight doctor in Ulster,

perhaps (6) 19 Such deliveries at the

Oval finished branch (7) 21 Flyer accompanies

current cocktail (7) 23 Pedant set about revolutionary teacher (6) 25 Hospital cracks drink

complaint (5)