CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
WIN £500
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 16,907, 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
1 Storm from this could rend hut apart (12)
8 Coded instructions for small Mass (7)
9 Notice party’s absorbing pressure to accelerate (5,2)
11 Check opening top journalist reproduced (10) 12 Release without charge (4)
14 Shrub arrived with lobelia without award (8) 16 Goddess who inspires love, filling heart? (6) 17 Venomous creature when provoked initially (3)
19 Rod left in rage (6)
21 Engineer keen to acquire pink paraffin (8)
24 Screen symbol incorporated in semiconductor (4)
25 Relative with 12s heard what helps drivers in winter (10) 27 Ring opponents at
bridge nearby (7)
28 Jockeys perhaps collar
amateur thieves (7)
29 Boxer wielded staggering power when hooking (12)
DOWN
1 Iodine mixed with hot
rum makes 22 (7)
2 Peerless superior invader managed to cross lines (10)
3 Affliction meant
I’d somehow saved energy (8)
4 More risky accompaniment for egg? (6)
5 Welsh 24
shelter king (4)
6 Experience some work during United Nations function (7)
7 Grateful four
gain houses (12)
10 Instruction to parachutist making official statement? (5,7) 13 Supplying support or
rescuing at sea (10)
15 Request job, having
taken time off (3)
18 Groom griped, saddling Europeans’ thoroughbred (8)
20 Bad coaching put off Arsenal at first – they may be in the soup (7) 22 It heats English workers
in rented property (7) 23 Cold indicator seen wavering at zero? Not half! (6)
26 Try a Dutch needle (4)