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 16,330, 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 70.

ACROSS

1 Expertise of Roman as displayed on galley (11) 9 Ring at breakfast, say, for cereal (7) 10 Doctor managed to save European soldier once (7) 11 Original woman comes and goes (3) 12 Titled lady starts to dress up game (7) 13 Left Tories wandering around lounges (7) 14 No goals in Northern Ireland league (3) 15 Spend night in kangaroo’s territory (5) 17 Supply joke online? (5) 18 Complaint of children often left in cradle at first (5) 20 Gently touch a chopped salad plant (5) 22 Youngster who appears in previous clue (3) 24 Hard to find the Spanish-American at a quarter past four (7) 25 Sound off about cool way to dismiss batsman (4,3) 26 Cutter used to be sent back (3) 27 Erin’s jumping in headgear like this? (7) 28 Learned to amend article finally about sport (7) 29 No granny accepting role is unbiased (11)

DOWN

1 Eccentric political hero hugs American that’s deceptive (7,8) 2 Browser about to include dictionary, I think (3,4) 3 Men primarily made beers (5) 4 Even Lotte managed some light reading (9) 5 Use this in emergency in hotel complex (7) 6 Topic for debate that always comes up? It’s impossible (9,6) 7 Wet nurse formerly drank rum (6) 8 Comes to finish drink (4,2) 16 Box in occasional Scottish band (9) 18 About 100 in here, playing? (6) 19 Mushroom in Paris without current bun (7) 21 Special students picked up mistakes (4-3) 23 Article appears in Germany, Ireland and indecisive state (6) 25 What hot people do in airless weather? (5)