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 16,407, 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 60.
ACROSS
1 Time to copy wind instrument? This machine should help (4,8) 8 Butcher can vote for a piece of Brazil (7) 9 What a selfish tourist takes? (3,4) 11 Lots know this old writer’s on Crete, working (4,6) 12 Butter’s hard? I’m surprised about that (4) 14 Teacher’s English coin of old gold (8) 16 Snow leopard pursues prey primarily in spring (6) 17 Food price evens out (3) 19 One who has view beside river? (6) 21 Intimidate quiet small youth nervous about college (5,3) 24 Wader tucked into Garibaldi biscuit (4) 25 Covenanter condemned breach (10) 27 Lad runs round track without taking a breather (7) 28 Puzzles that sort the wheat from the chaff? (7) 29 Surgery distressing Yankee mothers etc — the end of fertility (12)
DOWN
1 Fancy auto tours square without independent cover (7) 2 Badly-run events go thus, like conferences? (4-6) 3 Swedes perhaps source whip (4,4) 4 Shrewd Conservative party on the rise (6) 5 Jolly soldiers erected cross (4) 6 Make money importing article made of clay (7) 7 Old person’s gone off wearing funny raincoat (12) 10 For example, he is now on edge (7,5) 13 Risky dog somehow follows bird with big bill around hotel (5-3-2) 15 Grave inscription causing tear (3) 18 Obscure coteries break up (8) 20 The old dispute victories by a Tory ultimately (7) 22 Laminate remaining old song (7) 23 Cricketer’s headgear (6) 26 Occasionally forfeit
guitar part (4)
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