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 16,664, 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 56.

ACROSS

1 Protect slight European

touring area (8) 5 Proust’s abnormal state

of insensibility (6) 9 Disgust and unease at

being treated badly (8) 10 Princess’s yachts tied

up here (6) 12 Carry baby close to

one (4) 13 Reverse an old tax on

sibling (10) 15 Handy weapon U.S. bank clerk waved, seizing vessel (5,8) 19 Problem for pupils on reflection in winter? (4,9) 23 Officer’s story initially

upset lodger (10) 25 Every fruit should have

top removed (4) 28 Checked painting in

brown (6) 29 Dale’s leaving NY store

in good health (8) 30 Order eastern set of

beliefs back to front (6) 31 Bitterness of tripe

cooked in, say, nuts? (8)

DOWN

1 Light fuel, heading

off (6) 2 Steer clear of end of

street collision (5) 3 German song was

misleading (4) 4 State worried about new universal disease (7) 6 Leader of team spots

rubbish (5) 7 Surveys get round limits, ignoring IT trainers (9) 8 Reconsider dealing with

Neddy’s mate? (8) 11 Family retain large

cooker (4) 14 Books containing a rare

slur (4) 15 Based on medical data, microbe changes with it (9) 16 The Scotsman’s

awareness (3) 17 Sign on staff, 150 English

females primarily (4) 18 Sailed to rocks, getting

cut off (8) 20 Bars where lawyers

work (4) 21 Swings no good in

glens (7) 22 Cast includes a horse

that’s hairy (6) 24 Mock noise of current

in northeast (5) 26 Boxer initially breaches

impressive defence (5) 27 Navy abandons present

system (4)