CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD
NO.744
Here’s your chance to win a €15 book token. 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.744, 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.743 is Geraldine Smith, Collon, Co. Louth.
CRYPTIC CLUES Across
9 Picture one game differently (5) 10 Season doesn’t start terribly free, so butt in (9)
11 Hormone made by nerd, almost hops in confusion (9)
12 Artist puts bird outside as a feature (5)
13 Attempt to fashion rivets (6) 14 Singing about strange night, holding a knight (8)
16 They can’t let go – it’s more difficult having nothing (7) 18 A noble, worried about duke, my dear sir (3,4)
20 Friend loses last lock on part of a bed (8)
22 Lifting device in front of a large animal (6)
25 Thanks sea for not being wild (5) 26 Learn about putting actors in bomber (9)
28 Dilapidated or ancient vessel (9) 29 Some heat from another machine (5)
DOWN
1 Flames in sack (4)
2 Steps that may be taken (6) 3 Degenerate understudy babbled (8)
4 Specialised in turning revolutionary (5)
5 No chant is performed for supporter (9)
6 Greek form of trance (6) 7 Comparable part of family tree (8)
8 Pagan hotel designed in a certain shape (10)
13 Cites chasm incorrectly in diagrams (10)
15 Cars, spinning on hard terrain, make an emergency stop (5-4) 17 Element is against cash – no euro (8)
19 Sparkling Italian writer has new aim (8)
21 Right next to a face, spreading from a point (6)
23 Family going round gallery without a youngster (6)
24 Type acquiring new sound of contempt (5)
27 Inclination to knock quietly (4)
QUICK CLUES Across
9 Likeness (5) 10 Meddle (9)
11 Brain hormone (9) 12 Characteristic (5) 13 Make an effort (6) 14 Intoning (8) 16 Collector (7) 18 Friendly form of address (3,4) 20 Bed part (8)
22 Wild dog (6) 25 Domesticated (5) 26 English city (9)
28 Receptacle (9)
29 Unit of heat (5)
Down
1 Conflagration (4)
2 Portable steps (6) 3 Morally corrupt (8) 4 Recess (5)
5 Upright post (9)
6 Mediterranean
islander (6) 7 Family member (8) 8 Seven-sided (10) 13 Technical diagrams (10) 15 Alight in an emergency (5-4) 17 Chemical element (8) 19 Resembling diamonds (8)
21 Type of tyre (6)
23 Young cat (6)
24 Derisive sound (5)
27 Slope (4)