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 16,828, 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 Presently in position that offers no hope of success (2-3,9) 9 Our group attend party involving Irish eccentric (6) 10 Before end of July he tried changing geneticist’s subject (8) 11 Spanish lecturer’s
farm machine (8) 13 Period in which there’s not as much happening (6) 15 They are not all foul
and bawdy (6) 17 A crime stopping county’s better venue? (6) 19 Photographic gear arrived with artist (6) 20 Prisoner and French copper (first of two) don’t get on (8) 22 Perch here roughly in dilapidated bridge (8) 24 Disconnect a foreign listener bored by piano (6) 26 Casual tailored suit with nice sunhat (14)
DOWN
1 Rotten painter managed to grasp current meaning (14) 2 Old water-carrier a feature of brewery (4) 3 Embrace ten times,
avoiding head (6) 4 Argue violently about
sick rebel fighter (8) 5 Stable boss (4) 7 Be a vital part of guide’s direction at entrance? (6) 8 The pope opposed this conventional Welsh songstress (8,6) 12 Eagle’s nest unknown
in Great Lake (5) 14 Feed sow, disheartened and unwell (5) 16 Each had terrible athlete’s foot and pain at the other end? (8) 18 One’s succeeded, securing college gate (6) 21 Northeastern river in Russia’s affecting nerves (6) 23 Finished pilotless aircraft right away (4) 25 Somewhat
sympathetic way (4)