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 16,957, 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 Support offered by course for musical accompaniment (7,5) 8 Broadcast doctor facing work in landing of supplies? (7) 9 Fine antelope skirts new marshy ground (7) 11 Struggle sadly set to face pensioner to get bathroom item? (6,4) 12 Feel the absence of
unmarried woman (4) 14 Storyteller recalled corruption on Scottish island (8) 16 British trio’s renovated eating venue (6) 17 Boulder, it’s said, for legendary bird (3) 19 Surround chaps leaving mass in front of congregation (6) 21 Successfully achieve opening of business and discontinue call? (5,3) 24 Cooker found in alcove nearby (4) 25 My one pitch possibly to get something on a roof? (7,3) 27 Concession managed by old singer (7) 28 Person stumbling is excursionist (7) 29 One in overall charge of flats etc? (5,7)
DOWN
1 Scottish playwright overlooks river obstacle (7) 2 Unexpected events and turn followed by former Labour minister (10) 3 Troop is upset about male, fraudulent type (8) 4 Nonsense linked to a source of whimsy making one laugh (6) 5 Classify place to
get a taxi? (4) 6 Talk about carnival site for horse-drawn transport (7) 7 Quarrelsome about means of transporting oil in a sense (12) 10 Music by Frenchman with passion enthrals you in Paris, creating unease (12) 13 Highly innovative engineer opening ride without director (10) 15 Plunder first signs
of riches on battlefield (3) 18 One-time English cricketer inspiring lately popular children’s author (8) 20 File apt for replacement
in squalid place (7) 22 Number elevated academic work in theory (2,5) 23 Quiet minute after
request for quiet also (6) 26 Graduate, no good,
makes loud noise (4)