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. 14,347, 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 14,344: ACROSS: 1 Treasure hunt. 8 Arbiter. 9 Attempt. 11 Tickety-boo. 12 Oral. 14 Book club. 16 Dollop. 17 Net. 19 Answer. 21 Espresso. 24 Chum. 25 Decree nisi. 27 Embroil. 28 Notelet. 29 Re-emphasised. DOWN: 1 Tobacco. 2 Entrenches. 3 Spray gun. 4 Reason. 5 Hate. 6 Numeral. 7 Carte blanche. 10 Telephonists. 13 Courgettes. 15 Bee. 18 Tsarinas. 20 Stubble. 22 Skid lid. 23 Health. 26 Doom. 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 Curious popular question that is about visit abroad (11) 9 A prominent feature in Middle East motor (7) 10 Cool drink brewed from mostly 3 etc. (4,3) 11 What’s afoot astern? (3) 12 Policeman that’s never been paid perhaps? (3,4) 13 A very short period? That’s mean (7) 14 Male name for female (3) 15 In nearly all night in Paris? How boring is that! (5) 17 Standard joke about posh European (5) 18 Non-standard feature of everyone’s language (5) 20 Reduces area of canvas to avoid hitting these? (5) 22 Line caught deer (3) 24 Jersey opening for trained schoolmaster, not Scots (7) 25 He reproduces postcard about happy ending in Ulster (7) 26 Would you believe it, chef’s not finished! (3) 27 Clive’s annoyed by head of erupting blister (7) 28 Reserve rented property in reduced volume (7) 29 Child actor took ill following effect of cold wind (5,6)
DOWN
1 Background track in cinema until disc shattered (10,5) 2 Source of medicine which in France is supported by 9 (7) 3 The majority of ladies could be perfectly suited (5) 4 Like 25 Across, I’m first at gallery about 4 (9) 5 Cold beer brewed in centre of Riga, cooled by piece of this? (7) 6 Fix crucial tax error (union not zero) beyond normal duties (15) 7 Even odd bits of Soho houses subject to debate (6) 8 Minced meat and egg almost essential for reproduction (6) 16 Leonard turns up holding amazingly clever neuron (5,4) 18 What people may do if all but start of harvest is ruined (6) 19 Food in Rome or Cochin prepared after midnight (7) 21 Drink left as sustenance (7) 23 Heaney’s written now and then about bird’s existence (6) 25 Venomous type in Cordoba drunk outside party (5)