£50 CROSSWORD

Solve the crossword in the normal way and the shaded squares, when read in order, will reveal the solution. Work out what it is and call our entry line below by midnight Saturday, August 20. One winner will be picked at random from all correct entries sent in by the closing date and will receive £50, or for Irish entries, the equivalent in Euros.

ACROSS

1 Search (5)

6 Mr Maradona, late

footballer (5)

9 Fuss (7)

10 Of a town (5)

11 Bedtime drink (5)

12 Type of fruit (5)

13 Wave rapidly, flap (7)

15 A small number of (3)

17 Forearm bone (4)

18 Sedate (6)

19 Fibbers (5)

20 Give rise to, evoke (6)

22 Wooden shoe (4)

24 Be seated (3)

25 Examine in detail (7)

26 Strong foul smell (5)

27 Flexible, supple (5)

28 Feeling that one is to

blame (5)

29 Competitor (7)

30 Unwelcome plants (5)

31 Seize wrongfully (5)

DOWN

2 Unfurl (6)

3 Ancient Greek city (6)

4 Shade of brown (3)

5 Intense beam of

light (5)

6 Deciphers (7)

7 Metallic element (4)

8 To glare (6)

12 Deserve (5)

13 Pungent or toxic

vapours (5)

14 Out of condition (5)

15 Totally (5)

16 Doorstop (5)

18 Inebriated (5)

19 Lends an ear (7)

21 Communicate and

maintain contact (6)

22 Gives a hard blow to,

informally (6)

23 Stableman (6)

25 Enraged (5)

26 Cast off (4)

28 Wildebeest (3)