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 16,857, 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 58.

ACROSS

1 Batter adheres around cooked pig’s innards (12) 8 Special work performed by ordinary singer (7) 9 Relative’s impressive secretary (7) 11 Carol Price worked in exchange (10)

12 Hill with flat top part of game sanctuary (4) 14 Change style of ship’s flag, removing name (8) 16 Finally sort problem wiper perhaps (6) 17 Chop the wood, some of it (3) 19 Members of this union quite disturbed by play’s closure (6) 21 Smaller pine in row (8)

24 Sleep rough in delta on old ship (4) 25 Doctor sees old Ben, suffering such discharges? (10) 27 Unknown fellow goes off to obtain new underwear (1-6) 28 Source of crude painting with some cloth (3,4) 29 Test weakling differently, using soft soap? (5-7)

DOWN

1 Catholic coped badly following a part of Mass (4,3) 2 Popular software on old part of web’s unsuitable (10) 3 Complete depression gripping head office (8) 4 Overcoat in Algarve partly turned up (6) 5 Scotsman has run country (4) 6 Greatly admired woman travels south to collect daughters (7) 7 Simple mistake ruined flyers (4-8)

10 I may broadcast with a hustler in an inept way (12) 13 Using phone, select a plant in a pickle (10) 15 Final goal (3) 18 Abrasive wives hide anger, upsetting gents maybe (4,4) 20 Open University rowers overtake Poles (7)

22 One diver surfaces clutching cold fragment of glacier (7) 23 Radical admitted to business group stays in it (6) 26 Previously held in prison cell (4)

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