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 16,879, 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+, excl NI. Terms apply, see Page 52.
ACROSS
1 Supplied PR video edited by daughter (8) 5 Accent over half of Scots employ? Definitely not (6) 9 Wartime combat, one between boxers? (8) 10 They support second-class events at Ascot (6) 12 Stake in Australian territory (4) 13 Wine supplier’s big mistake in Times (10) 15 A career lady’s managed to stock new ranges of diaries (8,5) 19 A wet exotic plant gets put away, wrinkled and brown? (7-6) 23 Cook studies this golf course involving stars (10) 25 A lot of fliers returning
at a great distance (4) 28 A set of harmonious notes announced treaty (6) 29 Grow about 50 for the first time in estate (8) 30 Mum is reversing
fast (6) 31 Lacking resistance, grew smaller and expired (8)
DOWN
1 Hawker developed laryngitis to some extent (6) 2 Should Hugo broadcast
on time? (5) 3 Big bird is browsing in
swamp primarily (4) 4 Rank and age constrain
revolutionary lecturer (7) 6 Horse guards a rare
tree producing pods (5) 7 New car in tune?
Not sure (9) 8 Writer, for instance, lives
in English Street (8) 11 Put money on a star that’s
not the brightest (4) 14 Pretentious stuff mounted
in photograph albums (4) 15 College girl in charge of nearly everything traditional (9) 16 Pat’s a swimmer (3) 17 Is there still one roaming
in the Himalayas? (4) 18 Lagoon’s spread over wicket causing
errors on pitch (3,5) 20 Road bypassing
fashionable Peel (4) 21 Europeans host new
service all at once (2,5) 22 China fanatic steals
third of porcelain (6) 24 Repeat broadcast underran
and sadly was cancelled (5) 26 Notes accommodation
in blocks perhaps (5) 27 Call eastern bloke over (4)