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Daily Express Wednesday July 13 2016 39 40 Daily Express Wednesday July 13 2016 CRUSADER PRIZE CROSSWORD WIN £100 CASH ALPHAPUZZLE® 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ACROSS DOWN Alphapuzzle® tests your logic and word power. Each grid number 1 That woman to cite wrong 1 Greeting key study that’s represents a letter. Every letter of the alphabet is used. Use the given dissident (7) secret (6) letter or letters — below the main grid — to start. Solution tomorrow. 5 Offering command (7) 2 Beneficiary of nice tripe 9 10 9 Almost choose to turn to old recipe (9) DIFFICULTY: 7/10; TARGET: 24 mins; CLUE: Sheep found in Rome perhaps. American type of tree (9) 3 Time to demolish dour YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across: Asphalt, Cram, Aglow, Baptism, Stout, 10 Severe at the back (5) house (5) City, Differ (clue), Judged, Brim, Shave, Initial, React, Gage, Crudity. Down: Candid, Being, Sulk, Affixing, Howitzer, Labour, Whaler, Quavered, 11 12 11 Old pride turned out to be 4 Vocal problem makes Chris out of date (7) do it badly (9) Railings, Cast, Mummy, Delete. 12 Non-believer infected with 5 Singer has one platform (5) A cholera, initially (7) 6 Paint that’s infectious (9) 7 26 5 25 19 26 13 12 9 10 5 26 13 14 15 16 13 Money for African on 7 At home, pet management is B strike (8,5) useless (5) C 11 8 14 4 22 19 10 17 18 Cab rattles around getting 8 Facts get round to detectives D socialist traumatised (6-7) with bearing on killing (8) E 6 24 10 5 12 22 24 22 26 23 10 16 18 20 College has sentimental idea 14 Gets old notes to part of F of mythical creature (7) Pacific Ocean (6,3) 19 G 26 5 24 10 10 6 2 23 Various frogmen get the 15 A group gets done over and H 20 21 22 23 24 point (7) stranded (9) I 25 Collect a great deal (5) 16 First paint is found where 22 26 25 2 16 24 2 7 20 9 2 26 Fiendish doctor to sort jacket may be worn (9) J sun out (9) 17 Determined to throw bread K 2 6 18 7 7 25 26 27 Mad reel getting developed out (8) L is a gem (7) 19 Not initially happy to be M 9 12 12 25 2 16 10 24 16 2 24 20 28 Crossed out permit hired (6) N indeed (7) 21 I am taking time on profile (5) 27 28 O 15 1 19 10 26 22 Hardly a crazy vagrant (5) P 24 Woman takes it to be Q 23 2 21 21 9 2 5 26 20 2 22 FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN £100 CASH read down the important (5) letters in the highlighted squares to reveal the mystery word. R S 19 22 6 22 25 12 18 TO ENTER: Call 0904 161 1605 and leave your answer and details, or text DXWED followed by a space, your answer, name and address details T to 88600. Calls cost £1.50 plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Texts cost £1.50 plus your standard network rate. Lines close U 6 20 20 2 22 10 24 2 22 20 10 26 at midnight tonight. Or send your grid containing the answer in the shaded squares by posting it to: Crusader Crossword, July 13, PO Box 12578, V Sutton Coldfield B73 9BT. Entries must be postmarked by July 14 at the latest. SP: Spoke – 0333 202 3390. For any postal enquiries, call helpline number. ● The winner will be the first random correct entry drawn from all entry routes after the closing date of July 20. W 14 26 7 24 9 26 3 X NEED HELP? Call 0904 161 1609 for 5 extra clues! Calls cost £1.50 plus your telephone company’s network access charge. Y 14 10 17 26 20 10 12 24 7 9 12 2 NAME MONDAY’S SOLUTION Z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ACROSS: 1 Deacon, 4 Rowdiest, 10 Warbler, 11 Actress, 12 Poser, 13 Spiritual, 14 United V ADDRESS States, 18 Circumstance, 23 Elucidate, 24 Comet, 25 Dormant, 26 Lunatic, 27 Misheard, 28 Choral. DOWN: 1 Downpour, 2 Acrostic, 3 Ogler, 5 Ocarina, 6 Detriment, 7 Eyeful, 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 8 Tussle, 9 Crisis, 15 Eliminate, 16 Animator, 17 Vertical, 19 Chapter, 20 Muesli, K POSTCODE 21 Seldom, 22 Hubris, 24 Conch. Prizeword: Weasel EXTRA LETTER CLUES: 0907 181 2568 (Hear up to six Extra Letters, deduct two minutes for each clue letter heard) Alternatively, for six extra letter clues direct to your mobile, text DXALPHA to 88080. Texts cost £1 plus THE DAILY EXPRESS 30-SECOND CHALLENGE normal network operator rate. FULL SOLUTION: 0907 181 2565; TODAY’S ANSWERS: BEGINNER = 16; INTERMEDIATE = 184; ADVANCED = 161. ACROSS ONLY: 0907 181 2561; DOWN ONLY: 0907 181 2562. TEASER *Calls cost 80p per minute plus your telephone company’s network access charge. CROSSDOUBT mensateaser: Win! Six months’ supply of ACE for Colours The Daily Express Alphapuzzles 3 (published by Express Newspapers 2007) is available at £6.99. To order, call The Express Bookshop on 01872 562310, send a cheque/PO Can you make two common five-letter Keep your clothes stain-free this summer with the help of household payable to ‘Express Bookshop’, to: Express Bookshop, PO Box 200, Falmouth, TR11 4WJ, words from the nine letters given, cleaning brand ACE, which is giving away six months’ supply of or order online at www.expressbookshop.com UK delivery is free. using each letter only once? You can ACE for Colours! Visit: www.acecleanuk.co.uk for more information. Alphapuzzle® ©2016 Acorn Editorial Ltd. All words appear in Chambers Dictionary. – but only if one letter features in both Take the online Mensa workout at www.mensa.org.uk or apply for a supervised IQ test in your area, words in the squares on the right. email [email protected] or telephone 01902 772771. Mensa does not accept hyphenated words, There’s at least one way to do it, and and uses the Oxford Dictionary of English (Second Edition Revised) as its official reference. SMALL CROSSWORD you have to have the right letter at the 1 2 3 4 56 7ACROSS crossover – but which one is it? Rearrange the letters of 1 Rigid, unyielding (4-4) See if you can find the answer within ‘PROFILE GREAT TUNE’ 8 One who lights up (6) our target time. If you need help, ring to give two popular holiday 8 9 Land measure (4) our clue-line below to find out the destinations. What are they? 10 In the past (3) crossover letter. Solution tomorrow. 11 Given to evasions (6) 9 10 13 Atop is ire (anag.) (9) Target times: Average: Answer for Teaser 06/07/16: M. In each group, the alphabetical 15 Plays for time (6) A C O R R S T Y Y value of the first letter minus the alphabetical value of the second 11 12 17 Chronic drunkard (3) 20 mins Good: 16 mins letter gives the alphabetical value of the third letter. Excellent: 12 mins STUCK? CALL FOR A CLUE SOLUTION 18 Molten volcanic rock (4) Yesterday’s solution: 0901 322 5607 * 19 Develop gradually (6) 0901 322 5601 For your chance to win, call: 0907 181 2720 13 14 20 Curiosity (8) VOTER, ANGER Halve your Target Time! Both today’s words in a moment *Calls cost 80p per minute plus your telephone company’s network access charge *Calls cost 75p plus your telephone company’s and last 2.5 minutes. Lines close at midnight on Tuesday, July 19. For full T&Cs see (across or down) network access charge. www.express.co.uk/campaigns/terms/7. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390. 15 16 DOWN 1 Scolds severely (9) 2 To secure firmly in 17 18 position (6) TARGET THE ALPHABEATER TARGET TIME: 32 minutes 3 Indian dress (4) 19 4 Tending to copy or The Target CAN you crack the A 23 9 18 26 35 20 39 27 13 2 19 33 40 mimic (9) uses Alphabeater? Each grid B 5 __ McIlroy, golfer (4) words in number represents a letter 20 6 African mammal (5) L A G – or black square. As in C the main 37 1 13 20 40 10 37 5 32 18 4 4 10 7 Crescent-shaped roll (9) Alphapuzzle, every letter of body of D ● The Express Bookshop stocks a wide selection of puzzle books across 12 Rummages (6) the alphabet is used. But all crossword puzzle genres. To obtain our up to date list please visit Chambers you have to complete the E 17 19 12 27 20 15 14 9 22 35 11 31 16 14 Don (3,2) www.expressbookshop.com, call 01872 562310 or write to Express 15 Condiment (4) I R N 21st grid too! Use the given F Bookshop, PO Box 200, Falmouth TR11 4WJ. Please enclose an SAE for 16 Weak, unconvincing (4) Century letters and black squares G return. Dictionary below the grid to start. The 31 17 21 25 19 1 32 10 25 31 18 26 17 YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION (1999 grid is ‘rotationally H ACROSS 2 Deepness, 9 Docker, 10 Idle, 11 Diva, V I L symmetrical’ – in other 13 Rotor, 14 Bottoms up, 16 Until, 19 Raid, 20 Andy, edition) words, it looks the same if I 38 25 28 17 38 3 25 9 1 38 7 34 28 21 Furore, 22 Hallmark.