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 16,844, 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+, excl NI. Terms apply, see Page 52.
ACROSS
1 Examine underground container in lab (4,4) 5 Clans prepared to return to capture member (6) 9 Inhabitant owns, say, less than nothing (8) 10 Looking back, there’s nothing to add that’s material (6) 12 Justify each service (4) 13 Mass killer held back at Barking (5,5) 15 Persuasive novelist urged changes (6-7) 19 Condiments displaying contrasting particles (4-3-6) 23 Endless mix-up in Spain, Asia and part of England (4,6) 25 Filmed drunkard casing hotel (4) 28 Crackling sound coming from radio, not mobile (6) 29 Combined with 28, ‘The King and I’ could be creative (8) 30 Jaunty gunners upset Sikh (6) 31 Two seconds hotly contested without difficulty (8)
DOWN
1 Edward’s outside pub, canned (6) 2 Sweeten last of asparagus that’s lifted (5) 3 Some set a task for so long (2-2) 4 Five tucked into unexpectedly viable oyster, say (7) 6 Eighteen holes, all of them this shape (5) 7 Harass rebel in trouble, suppressing fever (9) 8 Parasol has blown away in windy dunes (8) 11 Maybe highlander’s small shelter for livestock (4) 14 Wrack possibly found in communal gardens (4) 15 Rep’s pitch with drinks to follow outside (5,4) 16 Epitaph needs a bit of rescripting (3) 17 New primate’s hairraising location? (4) 18 Judge idiots, short type (8) 20 What mole does for cheap housing? (4) 21 Saw European animals on farm (7) 22 It’s awkward getting credit in swanky suburbs (6) 24 A teacher’s wrong (5) 26 Devise small opening (5) 27 Polish stripped elevated grain store (4)
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