DAILY MAIL CROSSWORD
PRIZES of £20 will be awarded to the senders of the first three correct solutions checked. Solutions to: Daily Mail Prize Crossword No. 14,497, PO BOX 3451, Norwich, NR7 7NR. Entries may be submitted by second-class post. Envelopes must be postmarked no later than tomorrow. Please make sure you enclose your name and address.
SOLUTION TO PRIZE CROSSWORD No 14,494: ACROSS: 6 Class-conscious. 9 Doodle. 10 Accolade. 11 Optional. 13 Onward. 15 Island. 17 Statue. 19 Throat. 20 Over here. 22 Hecatomb. 24 Crafts. 26 Standard-bearer. DOWN: 1 Accomplishment. 2 Hand. 3 Astern. 4 Psych out. 5 Mill. 7 Oracle. 8 Under-secretary. 12 Igloo. 14 Watch. 16 Notional. 18 Bombed. 21 Exceed. 23 Aunt. 25 Awry. DAILY MAIL New Cryptic Crosswords — pit your wits against 100 of the trickiest cryptic puzzles ever to appear in your favourite paper. This book provides the ideal way to warm up your grey matter for a day’s work, or wind down and relax during those rare spare moments. Available from The Daily Mail bookshop on 0844 472 4157 or www.mailbookshop.co.uk at £5.99 free postage and packing. ACROSS 1 Terrain damaged coach (7) 5 Impound big car to cut fuel (6) 9 I double over in gym, earning praise (7) 10 Low seat’s old and brown with cat lying in it (7) 11 Not much barley found in mulligatawny (3) 12 Balls in which disguised dames enjoy square-dancing? (11) 13 Tree product in former times (5) 14 Time to brew tea for hosting new cricket side (9) 16 Get dreadfully heated and dry (9) 17 American woman’s escort (5) 19 Coke and ice spread over cabbage dish in Ayr (4-1-6) 22 Mine turns into useful piece of information (3) 23 Make desperate attempt to break sidedoor (not front) (2,2,3) 24 Spain allowed people to come in for gold, for example (7) 26 Make frugal use of revised EU token before it ends (3,3) 27 What drunk did in bar — hurled liquid round about (7) DOWN 1 Spoilt a fresh canvas (7) 2 A profit on the 150 in stock as quickly as possible (7,3,5) 3 Lecturer rose, giving sign of approval (3) 4 Work schedules start rarely on two alternate Sundays (5) 5 Big reptile, they say, consumed savoury roll (9) 6 It’s designed to spin uniformly — and it does! (5) 7 Equipped with many guns, he treated them to burst (5,2,3,5) 8 Employee group invokes special agreement (6) 12 9 in Mediterranean consisting of varied 24s (5) 14 A British team trained ten sadly in decline (9) 15 Get excited by how Yorkshire river’s marked on map? (5) 16 Translate winter poem (6) 18 Grass protects place, so it’s believed (7) 20 Nothing underneath car generates sound (5) 21 Astronaut Armstrong proclaimed what prayers may do (5) 25 English bishop’s sin (3)