H CROSSWORD NO 1,880 H

TO ENTER Complete the crossword and count how many times the letter ‘T’ appears in the grid. Post your entry to YOU Crossword No 1,880, PO Box 5332, Cardiff Lane, Dublin 2. Closing date is Friday, November 24. One random winner from all correct entries will win a €15 book voucher. The winner will be notified within 14 days (telephone number required). Solution in two weeks.

ACROSS

1 Imaginary author of a collection of French fairy tales and later of English nursery rhymes (6,5)

7 Weep (3)

9 Flower; colour (5)

10 Win back control over a country or territory (9)

11 Part of your body someone might cry on? (8) 12 (and 4 down) Became an

18 down in

1948 (6,6,4)

14 Spectators in theatres (9)

15 As banned during a drought (5)

17 Surrealist

Max (5)

19 Lousy, useless, inferior (5-4)

21 Late playwright (surname) who wrote Blithe Spirit (6)

23 Extremely severe headache (8)

25 Surname of the 26th and 32nd Presidents of the US (9)

26 Costa

_____: how the coastal region of Catalonia is known (5)

27 Have a desire for Japanese money? (3)

28 How Ireland was referred to in the poem When Erin First Rose by William Drennan (7,4)

DOWN

1 Could be strawberry, chocolate or vanilla (9)

2 Became an 18 down in 1968 (7) 3 Very well done (9) 4 See 12 across

5 Killer whale (4)

6 The Premium Bonds computer (5)

7 Crows, screeches (7)

8 Member of the lowest rank of the nobility (5)

13 Plant of the lily family (10)

15 Indian city (9) 16 Became an

18 down in 1946 (9)

18 Crawley in 1947 or Milton Keynes in 1967 (3,4)

20 Cats, dogs, pigs, horses etc (7)

21 Became an

18 down in 1950 (5)

22 Chaucer pilgrim (5)

24 Outdoor bazaar (4)