DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 14,207, PO BOX 3451, Norwich, NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be postmarked no later than tomorrow. Please make sure you enclose your name and address.
SOLUTION TO PRIZE CROSSWORD No 14,204: ACROSS: 1 Council house. 8 Recital. 9 Uranium. 11 Automobile. 12 Blot. 14 Treatise. 16 Trader. 17 Haj. 19 Tangle. 21 Rubbishy. 24 Ogre. 25 Basketball. 27 Emulate. 28 Avenges. 29 Record player. DOWN: 1 Cocotte. 2 Ultimately. 3 Calabash. 4 Loudly. 5 Opal. 6 Skilled. 7 Breaststroke. 10 Motorcyclist. 13 Dry battery. 15 Ear. 18 Junk mail. 20 Nurture. 22 Swagger. 23 Fag end. 26 Faro. DAILY MAIL New Cryptic Crosswords — pit your wits against 100 of the trickiest cryptic puzzles ever to appear in your favourite paper. This book provides the ideal way to warm up your grey matter for a day’s work, or wind down and relax during those rare spare moments. Available from The Daily Mail bookshop on 0845 155 0720 or www.mailbookshop.co.uk at £5.99 free postage and packing.
ACROSS
1 Why leave gun out for author? (6,5) 9 E.g. lobster, mixed dace and some dolphins perhaps (7) 10 Old trick keeps label in shape (7) 11 Regularly reveal catch (3) 12 Children accompany woman on Latin course (7) 13 Well-known explosive device in hospital department (7) 14 There’s some disparity in health promotion unit (3) 15 He’s banished English team to extremes of league (5) 17 There’s fear about, father admits (5) 18 Shared some meat (5) 20 Irritable Yankee pursues big game (5) 22 Reaction to nasty taste by 1 Across finally (3) 24 Polish pub a danger to sailors (4,3) 25 Get ready to shoot – make it a burst (4,3) 26 The water in Paris is said to be deep (3) 27 Locate offensive smell in innocuous dose (7) 28 Arrange doilies to put on a pedestal (7) 29 Get stuck into job in 18 Across county (7,4)
DOWN
1 Finish an emphatic sentence thus! (11,4) 2 Completely remove old parasite, by the sound of it (7) 3 Sing strange melody without an intro (5) 4 Late TV quizmaster’s name announced in its entirety (9) 5 Inexperienced 8 drifted across river (7) 6 The upper classes? (6,9) 7 No spin in forecasts, just proclamations (6) 8 Joined team (6) 16 Engage engineer in rocket launch (just its start) (9) 18 Jack hopes to change man (6) 19 Bill, 26 say, in the picture (7) 21 No time in Kyoto working on disc for singer (4,3) 23 Impede a politician woman’s protecting (6) 25 Note about victory kept in binder (5)