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.751, 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.750 is Trevor Valentine, Celbridge, Naas, Co. Kildare.
CRYPTIC CLUES Across
8 Less sensitive to quantity (6) 9 Intermission finds bear wandering in wood (3,5) 10 Skin cream is only skin-deep (8) 11 Shabby sort of dagger (6) 12 Food an energetic person may be full of (5) 13 Vapour removed front side (4) 14 Hope audibly for a quarry (4) 16 Words concealing nothing – European is loquacious (7) 18 She ain’t moving too quickly (2,5) 20 Shivering fit is unclear, but not initially (4) 21 About to acquire work, fastening (4) 22 Stand kings getting one so wrong (5) 25 Ran after pure report (6) 27 Loved getting chutney with journalist (8) 28 Physical actor mustn’t rewrite article (8) 29 See glass almost fall (6)
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1 Hide mineral in outcry (6) 2 Odious as a snowman (10) 3 Create prose to sound correct (5) 4 Top of sideboard gets nailed and put in a queue (7) 5 Ritual meant cars crashed (9) 6 Container includes rook and crow (4) 7 Same problem in crooked floor (8) 14 Very quiet pain is spreading and is worrying doctor (10) 15 Made torso out as part of a plane (9) 17 With renewed energy, encourage first ingredient (3,5) 19 Economical season holds answer (7) 23 Determined to like an alloy (6) 24 Glass instrument (5) 26 Carry a tune in class, in German (4)
QUICK CLUES Across
8 Integer (6) 9 Pause for refreshment (3,5) 10 Superficial (8) 11 Tattered (6) 12 Legumes (5) 13 Squad (4) 14 Victim (4) 16 Wordy (7) 18 Hurried (2,5) 20 Fever (4) 21 Cord (4) 22 Booth (5) 25 Pursued (6) 27 Enjoyed (8) 28 Actor’s stand-in (8) 29 Fall down (6)
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1 Commotion (6) 2 Loathsome (10) 3 Compose (5) 4 Piled (7) 5 Religious ceremony (9) 6 Boast (4) 7 Lowest floor (8) 14 Very quietly (10) 15 Aircraft’s window (9) 17 Albumen (3,5) 19 Frugal (7) 23 Unfeeling (6) 24 Woodwind instrument (5) 26 Croon (4)