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. 701, 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.700 is Michael Hosback, Coolock, Dublin 17. CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Graduate only worked around key part of the theatre (7)
5 Dance for youngster to join an attorney (7) 10 Medium tree started resilient (4)
11 Cheap quality of Cheshire, say (10)
12 Drink round after a horse race (8)
13 Desperate desire to live (6) 14 Group of lions making quiet journey (5)
16 Delivering jade by carat – I have a description (9)
19 Show logic and bring about hearing for one (4,5)
21 Almost acquainted with student left on mound (5) 23 The Spanish soap broadcast in city (2,4)
25 Posh Northern Ireland poetry means everything (8)
27 Say once about endless deception being selfish (10) 28 Starting point for a Wimbledon favourite (4) 29 Hesitancy in second person expressing disapproval (7) 30 Quick to get put off and mope about (2-5)
Down
2 Truth is, a doctor turned, following cricket team (5) 3 Sponge has brim adjusted in university (9)
4 New city layout has a point, a fine point (6)
6 Mixed, when arranged (8) 7 Manipulates diver’s complaint (5)
8 Stud sadly lived the wrong way, in a whirl (4,5)
9 Further, over there, in bed (6) 15 Bring up frivolous show of braking (4,5)
17 Teens seen running in a state (9)
18 Condemn study a little bit (8) 20 Small amount of paper for knight’s attendant (6) 22 Caught copper in joint – a minor setback (6)
24 Tie coats in a new way (5) 26 Follower gives woman record (5)
QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Theatre tier (7) 5 Brazilian dance (7) 10 Unyielding (4) 11 Sentimentality (10) 12 Almond-flavoured liqueur (8)
13 Dwell (6)
14 Conceit (5)
16 Type of word (9) 19 Display reason (4,5)
21 Small hill (5)
23 City in Texas (2,4) 25 Cosmos (8) 27 Self-interested (10) 28 Plant ovule (4) 29 Stammer (7)
30 At a fast speed (2-5)
Down
2 Accepted truth (5) 3 UK university city (9) 4 Subtle detail (6) 6 Various (8)
7 Curves (5)
8 Small whirlwind (4,5) 9 Further than (6) 15 Car lamp (4,5) 17 US state (9)
18 Decry (8) 20 Landowner (6) 22 Spasm of the diaphragm (6) 24 Racecourse (5) 26 Ovine mammal (5)