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 16,831, 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 60.
ACROSS
1 One doesn’t want company left in secure compound (7) 5 Close Scottish bank
over in New York (6) 9 Pianoforte managed nine grand in old German money (7) 10 Dishonourable man with mother hiding current metal (7) 11 A court’s part in play (3) 12 Swelter awfully over ore, putting in kilos? I do that (11) 13 Weather lady who
rules lines (5) 14 Choose a player to give
this lift to child? (9) 16 Teams drinking lager recalled skiing manoeuvres (4-5) 17 500 in a party
make sense (3,2) 19 Frank organised fight
in marquee (11) 22 Painting’s social on
regular occasions (3) 23 Pressure’s on to
restart venture (7) 24 One samples food holding
old kitchen device (7) 26 I take flight crossing British meteorologist’s line (6) 27 Stand for conductor or conversely play banjo maybe (7)
DOWN
1 Substitute ribbed material with delicate fabric (7) 2 Artists’ trunks? They usually hold clothes (6,2,7) 3 Vessel, foreign one,
containing rupees (3) 4 Very good score
in Gleneagles (5) 5 Perhaps chains pet
with fasteners (9) 6 Sound car reaches
finish in Monte Carlo (5) 7 Building new smart rock band to tour Rhode Island (6,3,6) 8 U.S. rail company’s fate revolves around timetable principally (6) 12 They make it easier to
see small muscles (5) 14 Mercenary ship in River Plate foundered. 50 lost (9) 15 A snare’s set up some
distance away (5) 16 Exercises suit different heads of primary schools (3-3) 18 Bunyan’s hero, devout
student, determined (7) 20 Drivers quibble about
banger perhaps (5) 21 Compound in
Leicestershire (5) 25 Like special beast
of burden (3)