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 16,865, 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 Some chap with pot refreshed rotting pile in garden (7,4)
9 Museum display of spectacle involving moon (7)
10 Typically America principally underpins partner (7)
11 Fabulous bird rarely occupies cavern at first (3)
12 Praise doctor of girl at end of therapy (7)
13 Crowd seizes clerical garment and old weapon (7)
14 Small plants appear initially in spring (3)
15 Very quietly, bloke’s catching fish (5)
17 That king succeeded for ages (5)
18 Game on board revolutionary ship (5)
20 He tucked into strong drink, a sign of cold? (5)
22 Loquats regularly blossoming (3)
24 Metal mining group arrest old boy in islands (7)
25 A knockout Aussie sailor sent back weapon (7)
26 Drivers tackle golf range (3)
27 Die at home, embracing love (7)
28 A girl’s new husband is rather big (7)
29 Spendthrift traveller short of rupees goes after more (11)
DOWN
1 Cleo must choose a whipped dessert (9,6)
2 Import European article into China (7)
3 Ring to change egg supplier (5)
4 What good keyboarders do to affect letters (5-4)
5 How to fairly distribute English students in dock (7)
6 Very old student friend needs a long time to record one street (15)
7 Plug mature special maxims (6)
8 Lots of stars unknown in the underworld (6)
16 Drive to burn on borders of partly eastern state (9)
18 Is primate able to eat this at reception, say? (6)
19 What runner in Aviemore uses if kilt’s ruined? (3,4)
21 Pole dance (7)
23 Attempt to steal timber of poor quality (6)
25 A hunk picked up wood (5)