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 16,823, 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

6 Naughtier lads get fresh with my sons’ spouses (9-2-3) 9 I’d list altered to make gin perhaps (6) 10 Head man in Warsaw’s a tall thin person (8) 11 Celeb shoots

sailor (4,4) 13 I finish securing central section of simple loom (6) 15 Your old clothes and other things make you bad-tempered (6) 17 Fire tender hit after moving right to the end (6) 19 Party that could be

hard in prison (6) 20 Suspect failed to spot corrosion, so I hear (8) 22 Fan’s at home

having left field (8) 24 Discover deep

sound (6) 26 It explains outcome of confusing protein with nitrate (14)

DOWN

1 Government isn’t involved in commendation (14) 2 Expel judge who’s left contest on horseback (4) 3 Talk about the French

Alpine house (6) 4 Writer, for example,

lives in English street (8) 5 Game arranged

without notice (4) 7 Get on European vessel

carrying doctor (6) 8 Exhausted girls went mad for contest with no holds barred (3-2,9) 12 Underground police

run out (5) 14 Childless person receives fine game with stakes (5) 16 Dance on deck maybe, using two instruments (8) 18 Before noon, peer disputed current measure (6) 21 Burn source of power

crossing river (6) 23 Rowing eight — and what they did after winning boat race? (4) 25 Post paper (4)