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 16,720, 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 70. 1 Group in action with

Oasis surprisingly (11) 9 Start decorating, employing this bold colourful style? (3,4) 10 Like worship of 15s in South Africa, it can spread (7) 11 Court made of

timber mostly (3) 12 Judge managed to

limit one chorus (7) 13 Token Naomi wasted

in Netherlands (7) 14 Now and then snatch

small bag (3) 15 Expert’s protest

note (5) 17 Labour constituency

carries weight (5) 18 Game birds show

fear (5) 20 Calls for poles to cross river on the way back (5) 22 Very old whiskey

showing promise (3) 24 Check one book plugging popular success (7) 25 River has, bizarrely, two names — one’s cut (7) 26 Discharge Patrick,

ignoring the odds (3) 27 Swimmer, one hoping

to win favour (7) 28 Exploit is in vain

without leader (7) 29 Trained Latin star regularly taking interpreter’s job (11) 1 Doctor irate with a chairlift? It keeps his patient going (10,5) 2 Flight attendant’s two ways to curb dread when climbing (7) 3 Play about 150 running

round Wales (5) 4 Fool formerly grasped a new feature of poetry (9) 5 This eccentric American owns minute strip of land (7) 6 ‘No meddling’ policy on TV in nine or ten plays (15) 7 Sign he’s taken from

Roget’s book (6) 8 Old fool traps

European cat (6) 16 Former soldiers a blend of smart and mean (3-2-4) 18 One of five coming together at church for fruit (6) 19 Plant liable to collapse injected with oxygen (7) 21 I must follow new laws about greeting in Bantu tongue (7) 23 Victor, you and I run

round tavern (6) 25 Diver uses this south

Caribbean island (5)