Scottish Daily Mail

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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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 16,576, 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 66.

ACROSS

1 Articles I’d inserted in place of hard news (7)

5 Devious, keen to go round back of boat (6) 9 Flex turned into glutton’s rug used in court (7)

10 Posh doctor in Lagos reduced backache (7) 11

Discharge Patrick at regular times (3)

12 Short girl and bloke heard at ball giving wrong directions (11)

13 Spike old letter (5)

14 It’s hard to crack this unknown quantity in absurd tribunal (6,3)

16 A grand tomb at boring compound (9)

17 Old Peruvian at home with container (5)

19 Poverty demo suspended shortly before third month (6,5)

22 Fate of Abraham’s nephew (3)

23 Lion is distracted, fed with rare meat (7) 24 Middle East country’s PM loses head (7)

26 Record-holder appears in Carlisle eventually (6)

27 Stirred in eggs with new medicinal root (7)

DOWN

1 Brave sailors reach this finest forest food (7) 2 BBC boss put one cleric in enlarged broadcast (8-7)

3 Going north, was victorious straight away (3) 4 Yo-yo stories? (5)

5 During visit, copper put away tot (9)

6 A communist covers miles carrying weapons (5) 7 Neglecting oral, I arranged place to study education maybe (8,7)

8 Secret past revealed in court (6)

12 Mother nurses girl supplying spiritual nourishmen­t (5)

14 Doctor bemoaned defending posh fashionabl­e people (4,5)

15 Hibernian flag on top of house (5)

16 Shocked ace has sports car impounded (6) 18 Writing about husband’s love (7)

20 Ruminants, avoiding colonist, run away quietly (5)

21 Having regrets, I called hosts (5)

25 Oversaw sailors circumnavi­gating area (3)

NEED A CLUE? Text TIP to 65700 to receive FOUR answers to today’s crossword, or call 0901 293 6236. Texts and calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. Today’s clues available between 00.01 today and 23.30 only.

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