CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD

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either the cryptic or the quick clues and send it to us with your name and address. Send your solution to: Cryptic/Quick Crossword No. 568, The Irish Mail on Sunday, PO Box 5332, Cardiff Lane, Dublin 2. Entries must be received by Thursday. The winner will be drawn from a hat. The winner of Cryptic/Quick Crossword No. 567 is Brendan Freeman, Hillcrest Heights, Lucan, Co. Dublin. CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Met to compose a song for the church (5) 4 Lesson to file away by Catholic girl (4,5) 9 Expletive is a barrier to a race (9) 10 Dr Law, tipsy, gave slow speech (5) 11 Type of material about to coil round (6) 12 Disparage bishop getting the Spanish title wrong (8) 14 Female pal devised a national symbol (5,4) 15 Some rituals have a worthy quality (5) 17 Reporters find rep travelling by ship (5) 19 Chat too about fellow being a pain (9) 22 Fever about loan taken out that’s not digital (8) 24 Pressure on musketeer to show sadness (6) 26 Norse deity gives answer to a woman (5) 27 Central as arrangement that’s inherited (9) 28 Think carefully about gold type of telescope (9) 29 Point behind oak, say, to some of its products (5)

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1 Little bit of hesitation after doctor brings detectives back (7) 2 Some photography makes occasion become invalid (4-5) 3 Instalment puts husband in hypnotic state (7) 4 Left tune at home (4) 5 Sustenance that may be seen as digital (6,4) 6 Scoundrel has quiet word about one metal (7) 7 Expect a delay (5) 8 Most noticeable transaction includes current book (7) 13 Rat’s nature, wandering to food establishment (10) 16 People by shore training fast runner (9) 17 Parking afterwards around new pot (7) 18 Sort out time and space (7) 20 Chief ready to get telephonist’s equipment (7) 21 Foreign character gets Poles in trouble (7) 23 A dunce came up as conspicuously uninvolved (5) 25 Mark’s out of mascara (4)