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 16238, 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 64.

ACROSS 6 Perhaps cousins had another child? (8,6) 9 A complicated maths problem involving tubes (6) 10 My mum’s father’s Greek, also my father (8) 11 Ruby, for example, idiots liked a lot (8) 13 Brake has more water in it (6) 15 Golf academy retains frontage (6) 17 Pull over into unstable fen and swamp (6) 19 Oppressive American returns large sample (6) 20 Glass container stocks withdrawn during part of course (4,4) 22 Romantic type laid

site out (8) 24 Duck leaves another part of flower (6) 26 Cool tailored suit with nice sunhat (14)

DOWN 1 They carry loads, perhaps threequarters of 11 (6,2,6) 2 Pocket chisel’s helping to do some engraving (4) 3 Records garden plants university uprooted (6) 4 Switch positions occasionally ... (3,3,2) 5 ... surrounded by Parisian friend and daughter (4) 7 English square houses German agent (6) 8 Eleven face ASBO, breaking holiday (5,2,7) 12 A drunkard scoffs cold course (5) 14 Second last shed down (5) 16 The sort of robbery when a torch isn’t required? (8) 18 Rank sculptures abandoned by Spain (6) 21 Old prison column missing a tiny amount (6) 23 Working in A&E in good condition (1-3) 25 All the best old volunteers appear twice (2-2)

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