Scottish Daily Mail

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

No 16,856

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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 16,856, 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+, excl NI. Terms apply, see Page 64.

ACROSS

1 Company initially provides funds (7) 5 Entrance expert on ship going round Cuba (6) 9 Bloke consumes last of dinner before cheese (7) 10 Version of bible (Old Testament) as decorative trinket (7) 11 Put away grub each time (3) 12 Fast setter bewildered the papers (5,6) 13 Like the sea it rises, occasional­ly deadly (5) 14 Crude parcel containing bread roll and fruit (4,5) 16 Miners on beer tormented boss (6,3) 17 Gannets usually and not owls primarily leave this (5) 19 Criticise idol defending stock alarm mechanism (5,6) 22 Sack ten in A&E (3) 23 One who prefers the best new titles I introduced (7) 24 Like ham maybe, enjoying continued success? (2,1,4) 26 Appropriat­e east wing perhaps (6) 27 Hot spicy dish avoided by Charlie’s more costly and faster! (5,2)

DOWN

1 Most wary actors adopt guises now and then (7) 2 Uninformed host managed to maintain current time (6,9) 3 Wool supplier rises and falls (3) 4 Outside broadcast excluded from nasty part of play (5) 5 Judge a rare piece on merit (9) 6 Copper fragment’s length once (5) 7 Analyst played with rope and flex, that’s obvious (4-11) 8 Artwork’s universal in country (6) 12 Wrong fellow supported by a London university (5) 14 Some say reptile swallowed savoury cake (9) 15 Gas spoiled organ (5) 16 Writer turns up with 22, a relation (6) 18 Partially hide where napkin is often placed (7) 20 Part of South America’s cold, by the sound of it (5) 21 Honk at horse or canine maybe (5) 25 Broadcast song (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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