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 16138, 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 Risk female in ‘Look Back in Anger’, say? (4,4,4) 8 One more article, not by that woman (7) 9 Ring chum in Paris to obtain gear for folding paper (7) 11 Bank accepts bust redtop, so they say (10) 12 Record motor racing, Le Mans primarily (4) 14 Ted’s tuba should be tuned for mouth organ (5,3) 16 Hide loose rocks next to bottom of mountain (6) 17 Standard trim incomplete (3) 19 Start to restore old companies in baroque style (6) 21 Traffic controllers install lines separating planks (8) 24 Move slowly in church (4) 25 Instrument, occasionally gold, among various ocarinas (3,7) 27 Put down engineers next to Fleet Street (7) 28 Start to contemplate cutting popular brand list (7) 29 Like red carpet at the Oscars and banner there? (4-8)
DOWN
1 They help actor and politician in organised sport (7) 2 Hate bacon here cooked with rice initially (10) 3 Collaborate with NI party about energy, getting agitated (6,2) 4 Drive in leisurely fashion, also stalled now and then (6) 5 Turn over fine border (4) 6 Fetch twig (7) 7 Perhaps lead on this inert compound in transporter? (5,7) 10 Tiny mum seems unwell — this helps to restore her (6,6) 13 English county clear about its environment? (10) 15 A small amount of fish (3) 18 Sequence of crops transforms Ontario? About time (8) 20 Prepare to shoot hole in battle site (7) 22 Geared up to stop working in study (7) 23 Doctor suppresses old East German scandal (6) 26 Support European in pub (4)
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