CROSSWORD No.1182

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, June , at Prize Crossword No 1182, Irish Mail on Sunday, Embassy House, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, enclosing your name and address. The winner of Crossword No 1181 is: Olive Long, Dunkineely, Co. Donegal.

ACROSS

1 1980s synth-pop band (3,2,5) 6 Strike-breaker (4) 9 Middle-Eastern country (5) 10 Borrowed, taken from an account (5,4)

12 US bandleader and pianist, 1899-1974 (4,9)

14 Runs the rule over, superintends (8)

15 Spoil, damage (6)

17 Cause, rationale (6)

19 May nurse treat enlarged artery? (8) 21 Legendary jazz saxophonist nicknamed Bird (7,6) 24 Earmarking, planning (9) 25 Deprive of personnel (5) 26 A flowerless plant (4) 27 US singer who had a hit with 24 Hours From Tulsa (4,6)

DOWN

1 Part of a church (4) 2 Outbursts, rants (7)

3 Late 1950s teen pop idol (7,6) 4 Bits’n’pieces (8)

5 Delay, theatre seat & cowshed (5)

7 European country (7)

8 Band who had a hit with Cruel Summer in 1983 (10) 11 Greek recording star (4,9) 13 Jamaican singer who had a hit with The Harder They Come (5,5)

16 Extricate, resolve (8)

18 Kitchen appliance (7)

20 Farm worker, US odd-jobber (7) 22 Nobility, aristocracy (5) 23 Cupidity, ill-will (4)

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