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. 700, 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.699 is: Imelda Lynam, Rocklands, Co. Wexford.

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

9 Hate sailor – laugh to bitter end (5)

10 Immoral lunatic – he went mad (9)

11 Enjoy a photograph immediately (4,1,4)

12 Leaves the car in green spaces (5)

13 Healthy colour, that is, for a finger (6)

14 Inventive academic has left one in charge (8)

16 The French bishop, unknown in the country (7)

18 Cheat to get a crab (7)

20 One wandered around ancient city with twitch, being highly strung (8)

22 Supporter of fashion gets ready (6)

25 Rushed vehicle round to journalist (5)

26 Comes down with cloak and painting (9)

28 Referred to soldiers on diet, strangely (9)

29 Rinse out some sticky stuff (5)

Down

1 Everyone followed my leader to arcade (4)

2 Poles admitted fish quivered (6)

3 Race into haphazard design (8)

4 Should have purchased missing front (5)

5 Gambler leaving with more money (6,3)

6 Fellow joins the Spanish church (6)

7 Withering, small crop gets flu treatment (8)

8 Showy eccentrics find they help with learning (5,5)

13 Madam is one, sir isn’t (10)

15 I can’t construct sentence in layers of rock (9)

17 Blooming cheque that’s not covered (8)

19 Sorry I’d worked with energy that was minimal (8)

21 Rule old drain out (6)

23 Paragraph useful for a predator, say (6)

24 Mocking end is not right (5)

27 Terribly neat feature of Sicily (4)