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 16,879, 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+, excl NI. Terms apply, see Page 52.

ACROSS

1 Supplied PR video edited by daughter (8) 5 Accent over half of Scots employ? Definitely not (6) 9 Wartime combat, one between boxers? (8) 10 They support second-class events at Ascot (6) 12 Stake in Australian territory (4) 13 Wine supplier’s big mistake in Times (10) 15 A career lady’s managed to stock new ranges of diaries (8,5) 19 A wet exotic plant gets put away, wrinkled and brown? (7-6) 23 Cook studies this golf course involving stars (10) 25 A lot of fliers returning

at a great distance (4) 28 A set of harmonious notes announced treaty (6) 29 Grow about 50 for the first time in estate (8) 30 Mum is reversing

fast (6) 31 Lacking resistance, grew smaller and expired (8)

DOWN

1 Hawker developed laryngitis to some extent (6) 2 Should Hugo broadcast

on time? (5) 3 Big bird is browsing in

swamp primarily (4) 4 Rank and age constrain

revolutionary lecturer (7) 6 Horse guards a rare

tree producing pods (5) 7 New car in tune?

Not sure (9) 8 Writer, for instance, lives

in English Street (8) 11 Put money on a star that’s

not the brightest (4) 14 Pretentious stuff mounted

in photograph albums (4) 15 College girl in charge of nearly everything traditional (9) 16 Pat’s a swimmer (3) 17 Is there still one roaming

in the Himalayas? (4) 18 Lagoon’s spread over wicket causing

errors on pitch (3,5) 20 Road bypassing

fashionable Peel (4) 21 Europeans host new

service all at once (2,5) 22 China fanatic steals

third of porcelain (6) 24 Repeat broadcast underran

and sadly was cancelled (5) 26 Notes accommodation

in blocks perhaps (5) 27 Call eastern bloke over (4)