CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD

Here’s your chance to win a Collins Concise English Dictionary. Complete the crossword using 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.635, 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.634 is William (Liam) Breslin, Arklow, Co. Wicklow.

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Explosive wire to tie off (7) 5 What’s left shows an even distribution (7) 10 Soldiers accept one person’s appearance (4) 11 Buy at the butcher’s and receive notice (3,3,4) 12 Spread a prim lie about not being metric (8) 13 Libertine gets alien to shoot again (6) 14 Deadly sin swallowing old messenger (5) 16 Nice point about establishment (9) 19 Tree bear catches horse – that’s immediate (5-4) 21 Poor chap gets left and right confused (5) 23 At university, clamour for chaos (6) 25 A French wife lies about year in an ill-advised way (8) 27 Worker paid one off from the other side of the world (10) 28 The shape of cricket in London? (4) 29 One includes hard beach material (7) 30 Sound excited about last locket (7)

Down

2 Old Greek character with hesitation makes narcotic (5) 3 Threatening to transport garden round America (9) 4 Feline is wasting energy in river (6) 6 Hated sailor reporting stock (8) 7 Meeting to design coats (5) 8 See function in mechanism (9) 9 Mark takes Lenin initially to be a Russian ruler (6) 15 Tool is nothing with a drink (4,5) 17 Informed about husband using hers in beginning (9) 18 Cleaner joins firm with a large drawing (8) 20 Sodium to deploy on a sickness (6) 22 Sibling, say, back in pain (6) 24 Tearjerker set in the kitchen? (5) 26 Memorise renal layout (5)