WIN €100 WITH IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY

A prize of €100 will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution drawn from a hat Entries must be received by Thursday, November 8, at Prize Crossword No 1099, Irish Mail on Sunday, Embassy House, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, enclosing your name and address. The winner of Crossword No 1098 is: Anne Fitzpatrick, Clonakilty, Co. Cork. ACROSS 1 Bury and Milan team (5) 4 Pantomime hero (7) 9 Working animals (9) 10 Let down, lessen (5) 11 Banged up, imprisoned (6) 12 Snub, rebuff (5-3) 13 Aggressive lout, gurrier (6) 15 Embarked disguised as lowly hotel worker? (8) 18 Platform, plinth (8) 19 The Mafia code of silence (6) 21 Trust pin to break on roasting jack! (8) 23 Jewish civil and religious law (6) 26 Conjure up, induce (5) 27 Starter, beginner (9) 28 A foot-lever for working a machine (7) 29 Latin-American big band music (5)

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1 Putting out, circulating (7) 2 Young people (5) 3 Pass diner, oddly, with speed? (9) 4 Soon, shortly (4) 5 Maintained, professed (8) 6 Chumps, idiots (5) 7 Urban American (3,6) 8 Incline towards, plump for (6) 14 In the way, downtrodden (9) 16 Married European women in colonial India (9) 17 Calmed, quelled (8) 18 Illegal liquor (6) 20 European nation (7) 22 Sifting device (5) 24 Tourist accommodation (5) 25 Duration of garden herb, by the sound of it (4)