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 16,277, 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 66.
ACROSS
1 He foolishly admits dealing with ship’s principal (12) 8 Ill-mannered selfrighteous Republican leaves (7) 9 One politician faces every challenge (7) 11 Notice horse breaking manger that’s flimsy (3-7) 12 I carry out large icon (4) 14 To prevail, we ought somehow to retain independence (8) 16 Want time with controversial Young British Artist (6) 17 Local doctor comes across a space (3) 19 Accountant spies thorny bush (6) 21 Expose rear timber for nightlight (8) 24 Inactive 12, by the sound of it (4) 25 Crest that’s described as grey by jockeys (5,5) 27 Bringing up food (7) 28 Truculent blokeish sort avoided by king (7) 29 Henry, rough hardy type men recalled stopping pool treatment (12)
DOWN
1 Heights need adjusting first (7) 2 Crime that I bungled, having failed in this maybe (10) 3 Eastern game magazine keeps John working on golf (3-5) 4 Mean, like some members of colony? (6) 5 Tender epitaph on headstone at the back (4) 6 Malign resident of Orkney perhaps heading off (7) 7 Church member plays special piano (12) 10 Guide blamed the fir for Tudor building style (4-8) 13 Furry rodent’s cool in Asian country (10) 15 Hold up start of 3 for poor actor (3) 18 Lightweight book goes into two types of alcohol (8) 20 Physical reaction from gallery after leader’s demoted (7) 22 Trainee left in coarse material (7) 23 Danger which surrounds engineers (6) 26 Author regularly follows river, one in Germany (4)