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 16,572, 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 Brainwash? Do it in trance after being trained (12) 8 Toy artist left stuffed with false gold (3,4) 9 Judge is controlling races beside HM, showing nerves (7) 11 Board gets refresher to do with seafood (10) 12 Some studied Italian and Polish (4) 14 Second strip of carpet raised (6-2) 16 Ideal place to put small Ceres bust? (6) 17 Heard second person’s an old source of longbows (3) 19 Worker on quayside or deck possibly (6) 21 View gold in Central American country (8) 24 PM’s English hideaway (4) 25 Nice changes in net income for expert (10) 27 Bag second chalet after it’s renovated (7) 28 Outstanding work by sculptor (7) 29 Anglicans sent in money and flowers for pachyderms (12)
DOWN
1 Firmly establish one new cereal (7) 2 Glimpse Oz bouncer going up to stop the German bouncer (10) 3 You’ll split up without question after county conference (8) 4 Check over Josephine’s answer (6) 5 Unstable part of mast (4) 6 Part of sewer altered crudely (7) 7 State on eve of war? Send papers out to enlist engineers (12) 10 Gratification is fantastic, specially when love is involved (12) 13 Squares and circles one misconstrued (10) 15 Go and exercise quietly (3) 18 Nomad’s a lot more open-minded, I’d say (8) 20 Deceitful person reportedly spotted big cat (7) 22 Ever-youthful princess’s elegance rising to some extent (7) 23 French police stripped for fun (6) 26 Avoid first of headlines in newspaper (4)
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