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 16,718, 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 62.
ACROSS
6 Carrying out contraption into a compound (14) 9 Here the French store cold frozen dripping? (6) 10 Parasol has disintegrated in windy dunes (8) 11 Like Greek gods, Titan initially is overwhelmed by evil (8) 13 Computer enthrals an international enthusiast (6) 15 Steer car in university (6) 17 Nobel committee originally worked all together (2,4) 19 One’s in quiet club designed for anyone to use (6) 20 Head office rules embody special spiritual quality (8) 22 Risk a wet upset following boat on this? (5-3) 24 Changing room in church especially to house saint (6) 26 Harry prepares lounge for a variety of uses (7-7)
DOWN
1 Tidying up a bomb site could be unsettling (14) 2 Very impressive last part of recipe is revolutionary (4) 3 Sad and lonely fellow
wears cloth cap (6) 4 Mustn’t hurt a new performer of risky feats (5,3) 5 Chop crown off
pitch pine (4) 7 Simply like one to appear in cathedral city (6) 8 Cartographers scan round every complex (8,6) 12 Irish county reduced
rubbish (5) 14 Canny Londoner hoards synthetic material (5) 16 The King for one
stuns sailor (4,4) 18 Irish MP managed without one seafood item (6) 21 Potentially shocking
railway uniform (6) 23 Not as many neglecting fine jug (4) 25 One who’s stuck up poles on old barrels (4)