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 16,833, 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+, excL NI. Terms apply, see Page 54.
ACROSS
6 Salad plant, most of it under water (7,7) 9 Increase vineyard
one’s acquired (6) 10 Institution where others need treatment, more or less (4,4) 11 Detective’s left absorbing earl’s unease (8) 13 At home, attempt to bring in a documentholder (2-4) 15 Top mixed doubles
doesn’t start (6) 17 Aperitif for each
retiring lecturer (6) 19 Alto trained to breathe in, say, smoothly (6) 20 Tutor’s time in
Ecuador ruined (8) 22 Don’t use narrow track for specialised aircraft (3-5) 24 Pauline managed
without a dress (4,2) 26 Product of Corsican greed? I’m taken in, ousting Charlie (9,5)
DOWN
1 Lap on white horse requires current safety device (7,7) 2 Expensive German article impresses American (4) 3 Arab enemy
ruined island (6) 4 Struggling piper’s about to expel bodily fluid (8) 5 Long Italian church (4) 7 Turn round complicated tragedy, killing off duke (6) 8 Order rarely lifted about posh housing for astronauts (7,7) 12 Share just over half the
estimated price (5) 14 Archipelago’s not
given up Georgia (5) 16 A viola’s played to welcome king in state (8) 18 Withdraw what’s held
by precedent (6) 21 Open one European
section of canal (6) 23 Trojan king gutted
first carriage (4) 25 Arrest group of civilians heading north (4)