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 16,519, 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 Expert supporter in expensive part of theatre (8) 5 A pub rejected one Conservative from Yemen perhaps (6) 9 Disregard hours wasted hosting German fellows (5,3) 10 I go wrong in South Africa range (6) 12 European capital’s banks abandoning go-slow (4) 13 Rebuffed, Piglet’s pal twice ends in odd places (4-6) 15 Doctor measures this line taken by papers on river (5,8) 19 Yankee wears shoes on run that may lead to disaster (8,5) 23 Management holds relationship in high regard (10) 25 Republican enters excellent area (4) 28 Notice fault at sea (6) 29 A posh girl, one with German ceiling perhaps (3,5) 30 The Spanish First Lady initially nominates team (6) 31 Broadcast a top duet that’s fashionable (2-2-4)
DOWN
1 See boss man on board (6) 2 Pair in trouble in springtime (5) 3 Short period of darkness is near (4) 4 Old fellow has a Ford rebuilt for rough terrain (3-4) 6 One may charge money (5) 7 US aviary or UK prison? (9) 8 Dealer’s councillor retaining name (8) 11 What fans do with individual in personnel (4) 14 Take-over a great success (4) 15 New main bar contains one English cooking device (4-5) 16 Make regular journeys quietly on banks of Liffey (3) 17 Stupid pig goes round lake (4) 18 Grow about 50 for the first time in estate (8) 20 Ceremony’s correct, by the sound of it (4) 21 Makeshift plughole? (7) 22 Tool for crushing soft steel out of shape (6) 24 Ransack Winchester maybe (5) 26 Butterfly that appears in 20 (5) 27 Singer’s nasal tone to some degree (4)