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 16,692, 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 62.
ACROSS
1 Reconstruct most careless emblem used by knights once (7,5) 8 Poison spread in case rats initially come in? (7) 9 Butcher is hoping to
retain prize (7) 11 After break, posh
Unionist MPs tour uni? It should clear the air (6,4) 12 Burn top off
cooker (4) 14 Regularly supply a hut displayed on front page? (8) 16 Angry European
loathed fencing (6) 17 Music score that’s expected to be returned (3) 19 Writer’s returned this
awfully poor shot (6) 21 The old old woman welcomed new soldiers once (8) 24 Second-hand American edition (4) 25 People play this trick, certain to be abused (10) 27 One Pils refreshed character in Athens (7) 28 Sportsperson allowed in two articles (7)
29 Suddenly cute lynx deep in disarray (12)
DOWN
1 Show total’s climbing
based on one state (7) 2 Cook utilising cold starter involving tongue (10) 3 He’s cracking dodgy
prince’s code (8) 4 Spots rising politician
set up canvas (6) 5 Ruminants pulled
up grass (4) 6 What sporting types in Cairngorms use if kilts get torn? (3,4) 7 Cereal consumer must have sore treated (7,5) 10 Punch is passed round lido, specially for tourist (12) 13 Chopped herbs
medic smeared (10) 15 There’s maybe one per page in diary oddly (3) 18 Fancy writer and husband probing jargon (8) 20 Crushes member
of family (7) 22 Vain, yet displayed lack of sophistication (7) 23 Eject black cat (6)
26 Fine loose fibre (4)