CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
WIN £500
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 16,059, 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 datestamped 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 51.
ACROSS
6 Cousins perhaps produced more children? (8,6) 9 Attraction that’s good for Anglicans (1-5) 10 I refuse to accommodate suitable turning spot (8) 11 Writer’s following very brief flier exactly as written (8) 13 Power and energy needed to cut enamel (6) 15 To keep in touch in Australia is easy (6) 17 One’s wearing a tuxedo performing for neighbour (6) 19 Joe cracks girl’s problem (6) 20 Critic’s respecting the person he’s writing for? (8) 22 Personnel controlling new party’s deadlock (8) 24 Capital contest, one involving knights (6) 26 Legwear for golfers and New Yorkers (14)
DOWN
1 Feeling belt now after digesting meat dish (4,10) 2 Teacher runs out of time making porridge (4) 3 Introduce latest aircraft carrying clubs (6) 4 Made an impact on camp (8) 5 Send out small child close to front (4) 7 It’s hard to fathom province during difficult game (6) 8 Ambiguity of port workers defending varied needs (4-10) 12 Last of Arab Muslim pilgrim’s Indian snack (5) 14 Cicero describes bracing weather (5) 16 What offshore wind turbines offer Britain maybe? (3,5) 18 First parts of pretty fabric for small house (6) 21 Fast way to score 651 (6) 23 Pleasant place on Med (4) 25 Still competition isn’t finished (4)