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 16,652, 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 56.

ACROSS

1 Edit text chief sent over for advance payment (12) 8 US agents spoil a revolutionary language (7) 9 Pal runs off to

get jam (5-2) 11 Cheats hide stacks in dry debris now and then (10) 12 Ring friend to

conserve energy (4) 14 Save member

some pork (5,3) 16 Where people go to

allow one to enter (6) 17 Group of people

around green (3) 19 Simple church teas

distributed (6) 21 Avoid fish and

young bird (8) 24 Work in shop

usually (4) 25 Peer and earl leave, admitting venal manoeuvring (10) 27 Performed melody in

return for drink (7) 28 Spoil duelling moves, dropping foil finally (7) 29 European nation awfully cagey about new property firm (6,6)

DOWN

1 Endurance’s mainmast shattered, except top (7) 2 Chess player hated terrible epidemic (5,5) 3 Nonsense story

talked about drink (8) 4 Cover popular

small flower (6) 5 What changes when temperature rises? (4) 6 Instruction on machine in crude rig? (3,4) 7 Crusading symbol making islanders angry (7,5) 10 Yank to persuade that woman to cooperate (4,8) 13 Stagger forest, allowing in good alpine plants there (4,6) 15 Bottom bunk (3) 18 Car makers object, ignoring hotel inspector’s job (8) 20 Old boy, a smoker, accompanying student group (7) 22 In a perfect world I would undoubtedly shed top (7) 23 Level plaza (6) 26 Section included

in 23 acres (4)