CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD

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.749, 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.748 is Mary Teresa Duffy, Kilkelly, Co. Mayo.

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Glass acrobat (7)

5 Revulsion is key, in dirt (7) 10 Group of people of basic language (4)

11 Ego affected by sound of a planet’s structure (10)

12 I must broadcast large American encouragement (8)

13 Mention everything due to change (6)

14 Ordered spare weapon (5)

16 A broken tile, certain to be free (2,7)

19 Sectional development by the sea (9)

21 Fellow left tree in blaze (5) 23 Cultural alien, chin-wagging (6)

25 After strange rite, money is withdrawn (8)

27 Ian worked in position in sewage disposal (10) 28 Formal attire for

Asians, say (4)

29 For example, reverse time, still to have one’s revenge (3,4)

30 Sitting on a small, tired construction (7)

Down

2 Dark, until improved (5)

3 Using negative methods? Certainly not (2,2,5)

4 Space alongside creek for flood (6)

6 Deal is to reform on its own (8)

7 Interrogate cook (5)

8 Usual singular morals (9) 9 County group behind entrance, letting nothing out (6)

15 Lying expert arranged treats (9)

17 Lawman to ask for gold (9) 18 Rugby player in wicked European siege (8) 20 Detectives’ man returning from Finland, say (6)

22 This group rocks (6)

24 Green one found in part of church (5)

26 Neon improved front of diner very much (2,3)