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 16,682, 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 58.
ACROSS
1 Restore retired woman’s skill briefly at end of course (12) 8 Sailor loves
changing excuse (7) 9 Get tight in future, perhaps, at university (5,2) 11 Film instrument hotel
enclosed in glass (10) 12 Yank’s about to tour a country in Europe once (4) 14 Sad moments in short episodic programme, not popular (8) 16 Hot spice? Sounds
cold to me (6) 17 Tax container (3) 19 Hold old competition within county borders (6) 21 University finally
bringing in yen (8) 24 Pulled part of power
drill from the back (4) 25 Disney dog traps male
cat with a fruit (4,6) 27 Destructive sport at home followed by ordinary American (7) 28 Gain time for convict
in the past (7) 29 In the morning play netball with Ivy inconclusively (12)
DOWN
1 Exam marks second in
Ulster surprisingly (7) 2 Hot novelist George has to secure plant (10) 3 Soviet leader British never hoodwinked about zero hour (8) 4 Drunk with some
boring speech (6) 5 Tense individual’s
colour (4) 6 Single-digit growth
damages one in the end (7) 7 We could tramp ground, alleviating friction with this ... (6,6) 10 ... possibly on hilltop and bog, where we make our mark? (7,5) 13 Heat regulator which controls metros in different places (10) 15 Speak for one (3) 18 Fellow player leaves
Mike with couple (4-4) 20 Exotic music impresses a European, not heavy metal (7) 22 It’s idiocy and madness to exclude society (7) 23 A sample nearly contaminated blood constituent (6) 26 Nothing’s found in big
wild desert (4)