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 16,527, 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 60.
ACROSS
1 What a cow spurted out beside trough primarily? (5,7) 8 Soprano leaves old songwriter for fortune-teller (7) 9 They give one a better view of German girls (7) 11 Grass on zoo worker and grocer perhaps (10) 12 Collaborative website with one key ingredient initially (4) 14 A rookie forces changes in the Open (8) 16 New York avoids rambling Tennyson poem (6) 17 One performs badly in first half of Shakespeare play (3) 19 Occupy home Dave rebuilt (6) 21 Refined tempo when flute played (8) 24 Urge adroit change at
the centre (4) 25 Notice Inca song orchestrated in church (10) 27 Old vessel’s capacity to
store energy (7) 28 Celebrity let
off alarm (7) 29 Sort of cake and wine in middle of nice church (12)
DOWN
1 Prosperous fellow irritated female (4-3) 2 On paper, flies meet such fates (6,4) 3 Establish recent changes around new hospital (8) 4 Able to stand rough treatment wearing a wig? (6) 5 Expensive pet (4) 6 Cousin abroad acquires hard shock-absorber (7) 7 Pass gin and it with 15, possibly renouncing faith (12) 10 Sailors seen wearing these in their vessels at sea (12) 13 Note steady boxing competitor (10) 15 Cereal featuring regularly among royalty (3) 18 One woman drinking another’s antacid (8) 20 Boxer in very old cricket club dealing with open letters (7) 22 Cooler Arctic deters Roman Catholic zealot (7) 23 Money strays in
these places (6) 26 Genuine Spanish
team (4)