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 16,670, 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 62.
ACROSS
1 A French writer owning boat to cancel membership (11) 9 Old volume in untidy room covered in this? (7) 10 Return property containing monarch’s bit of mosaic (7) 11 Computer’s protection against rain (3) 12 Leave out old hint
about Germany (7) 13 Blissful Harry against
hosting Yankee (7) 14 Part of cereal occasionally seen in Darwin (3) 15 Graduate’s very
low voice (5) 17 Ducks replace energy
in repose — here? (5) 18 Bizarre soldier maybe
in charge (5) 20 Jockey’s condition (5) 22 Amateur writer’s
point (3) 24 Spray scent (7) 25 Having taken the
plunge outside I’d split (7) 26 Generation, or part
of it (3) 27 My job scene (7) 28 Ambassador’s wearing
fool’s garb (7) 29 Enjoyment at participating in Democratic poll (11)
DOWN
1 Not willing to accept new policy, nun coerced trust to change (15) 2 Submit diced cucumbers without hesitation (7) 3 Live around Isle of Man’s section of Eden project? (5) 4 Trap fish left inside to
contract virus? (5,4) 5 Provincial name of Iberian War avoided by writer at first (7) 6 Envoy ranted when redeployed occasionally (5,3,3,4) 7 One leaves a 3 with a distressed little creature (6) 8 A lot of vessels go in
to obtain stone (6) 16 Planned distribution of cigarettes wasting energy (9) 18 Jump in the morning on coach hotel supplied (6) 19 Vital vineyard non-clerical person pulled up (7) 21 Artist on the fiddle
doesn’t finish dish ... (7) 23 ... second one that’s
all the rage (6) 25 Lawyer takes tea in
country house (5)