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 16,812, 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 54.

ACROSS

1 Agree with unionist ignoring UN’s key player (12) 8 Made use of bible

cook sent back (7) 9 Force entry in dilapidated redoubt (7) 11 Heat regulator confuses Matt with others (10) 12 Heard quartet yell

on course (4) 14 Blinking old

wader (8) 16 Joe wraps instrument in bundles of tissue (6) 17 Northern sailor’s

collar (3) 19 Force staff to guard

one Conservative (6) 21 Remote fellows welcome a rare breather (3-5) 24 Leave team in borders of Egypt (4) 25 It’s used to decorate rig, causing burst (5,5) 27 Laugh uncontrollably about a European carrier’s job (7) 28 They carve ham primarily into different slices (7) 29 Record view about contest with you in the past (7-5)

DOWN

1 A feeble U.S. lawyer’s walk in the park maybe (7) 2 Support in Switzerland for newspaper measure (6,4) 3 Make over flag on merchant ships missing first name (8) 4 Pressure line is bound at first to split propeller (6) 5 Pay attention to books in suburbs of Newcastle (4) 6 Exclude and briefly

avoid illegal dealer (4,3) 7 Conjunction, for example, in section of address (4,2,6) 10 Ironing frock and

black tie (7,5) 13 Casting involved in this Bankside pursuit (3-7) 15 Norwegian king left

out fool (3) 18 Sodium chloride fills uncovered crustacean (8) 20 Attraction absorbing

earl is free time (7) 22 A Parisian guy stocks

classy ointment (7) 23 Grave perhaps that suggests one’s origins? (6) 26 Watch turbulence

behind boat (4)