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 16210, 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+, exc NI. Terms apply, see Page 62.
ACROSS
1 Kind features of group of characters (8) 5 In which one ace always wins and another should win (6) 9 Screen jeans brought in by supporter of course (8) 10 Rug with a minute tent (6) 12 Star recalls some melodies (4) 13 Get a different zoo employee as guard (10) 15 Light and dark condiments (4-3-6) 19 Harm poet, by implication, producing incongruous imagery (5,8) 23 Where to study singular chic area around hotel (10) 25 Save time at the start, getting lift in Aviemore? (1-3) 28 Dry golf club beginning to implement changes (6) 29 Old Jew’s harp needs fixing, I notice (8) 30 Northern taxi firm inspiring Mike’s song (6) 31 Plan for very big friend’s clothing (8)
DOWN
1 Bird nibbled tasty morsel (6) 2 Disease, one caught in swimming pool (5) 3 Fellow writer’s 30 (4) 4 Caught a slave nearly lifting tropical foodstuff (7) 6 Banish English Ilex – it’s gone off (5) 7 Modern sapper dismantled organ (9) 8 Solemn soldiers sent back Western headgear (8) 11 Look after less than a shilling (4) 14 First group of fledglings took flight (4) 15 This unusual structure houses ten senior pupils (5,4) 16 Young louse, one found in theatre (3) 17 The sound that comes back from the choristers (4) 18 Discharge European delegation (8) 20 Pound for a book (4) 21 One more article, not by that woman (7) 22 Painful experience central to work agreement (6) 24 Compound derived from leather Henry left (5) 26 Bearskins occasionally provide support (5) 27 Finish filming women’s strike (4)
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