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 16,369, 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 date-stamped 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 60.
ACROSS
1 Family returns, holding stuff upright on way in (8) 5 Footless tramp and wealthy person rub shoulders (6) 9 Engineers attempt to control soldiers in records office (8) 10 Scrub part of church Henry ignored (6) 12 Struggle to control new plant producing drink (4) 13 One section is restricted by bar supported by both sides (10) 15 Imaginative way to cut fuel for deserved reward (6,7) 19 Old golf club card game between Yankees leads to fraud (7-6) 23 Attempt to bring round skiffs Leo and I rebuilt (4,2,4) 25 Restaurant has a distinctive atmosphere (4) 28 Finish off cultivating fruit (6) 29 Apply throttle, change gear, keeping right on over the top (8) 30 Odd tale about northern king’s inferior ornament (6) 31 Pretty good match follows commercial (8)
DOWN
1 Spring trip takes in Spain (6) 2 Old King George gets a new instrument (5) 3 Crack stone son brought in (4) 4 Car filled with paintings and drink (7) 6 Love then leave Bridget Riley’s work (2,3) 7 Want northeast town to welcome European ship (9) 8 Just managed to avoid falling over (8) 11 A pair of judges follow leader of holy pilgrimage (4) 14 Evergreen shrub a feature of the belvedere (4) 15 Petty Officer got sick crazily jumping on this? (4,5) 16 Using hands, carefully hold trophy (3) 17 Strongly fancied player to give up, so I hear (4) 18 Deejay also known as keeper of art in eastern capital once (8) 20 Shout for one of the Shetlands (4) 21 Casual worker supports old fellows (7) 22 Meat chopped up with egg briefly? Yes, egg (6) 24 Fruit’s round, as it happens (5) 26 Extremist gets caught in Kabul traffic (5) 27 Country artist admitted to a measure of intelligence (4)