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.882, 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.881 is Marie Walsh, Skerries, Co. Dublin.

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Everyone turned to issue (5)

4 Loyal father getting

group to twitch (9)

9 Currency to improve

fundamentally (9)

10 Dowdy woman gives

fellow some beef (5)

11 Sold it off, being dependable (6) 12 Chilly body parts are

lacking nerve (4,4)

14 Unfortunately, dandy

time blew up (9)

15 First woman among students

on a equal footing (5)

17 Original rifts given new form (5)

19 Accommodation

made of oak? (4,5)

22 Least punctual sailor

arranged diets (8)

24 Studio presenter can broadcast

sixty minutes without union (6)

26 Risk not starting walk (5)

27 Endless dream on a

railway is not real (9)

28 Insisted a convertible

is cleaned (9)

29 Eco-friendly, but naive (5)

Down

1 Accompanied by

old defendant (7)

2 Laird to admit spacecraft

is outside (9)

3 Element tribe used

with hesitation (7)

4 Heard bucket is

lacking colour (4)

5 Trio yodels about plaything (3,7)

6 I find design by the

Spanish heathen (7)

7 Armistice is cute, arranged

with Republican (5)

8 Centre of administration

makes money (7)

13 First unchanged about

small data (10)

16 Confirm strongbox

and reveal (9)

17 Fast, running with whip

for tycoons (3,4)

18 Sitter managed to get

key and split (7)

20 Searching for strange thing

about French article (7)

21 That nobleman started at a

previous stage (5,2)

23 Bird getting dressed, losing tail (5) 25 Husband, also a worker (4)