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.900, 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.899 is Mary Rosari Lee, Arklow, Co. Wicklow.
CRYPTIC CLUES Across
9 Cosmetic is a shade foreign (5) 10 Simple argument with
someone in court (9)
11 Irishman right to smash
chair on head (9)
12 Small part of a snow leopard (5) 13 Writer to attempt a particular
style of writing (6)
14 Firm present – book is logical (8) 16 Forcibly subdue engineers
and reporters (7)
18 Warn about European ship in
incomplete state (7)
20 Strange thing, limit on drink (8) 22 Promise to put
pressure on sill (6)
25 Respond concerning
performance (5)
26 Article so agile about
correspondences (9)
28 Sharp residence for music (4,5) 29 Authority with no pressure to
bring to bear (5)
Down
1 Understanding graveyard’s
first epitaph (4)
2 Push thus, upsetting
the French (6)
3 Griped about energy,
doubled in descent (8)
4 Liveliness makes son
leave car (5)
5 Rush to get directors a
set of controls (9)
6 Again finding space next
to centre (6)
7 Capitalist in a whirl? (8)
8 What’s left, following
a test – weird (10)
13 Two men following soldier is
beyond science (10)
15 Reptile gets a sugar turned
into a vegetable (9)
17 Plaiting set in code (3,5)
19 Let wife start and basked (8) 21 Cantankerous, your old form,
and similar things included (6) 23 Motorist club (6)
24 Daily exercise, following
father to river (5)
27 Satisfy society had food (4)
QUICK CLUES Across
9 Cosmetic powder (5) 10 Accuser (9)
11 Father figure (9)
12 Unit of weight (5)
13 Verse (6)
14 Well-reasoned (8)
16 Quash (7)
18 Crude quality (7)
20 Last drink (8)
22 Vow (6)
25 Respond (5) 26 Comparisons (9) 28 Dance music (4,5) 29 Apply (5)
Down
1 Hold (4)
2 Jostle (6)
3 Ancestry (8)
4 Small flash (5)
5 Control panel (9)
6 Repeat
performance (6)
7 Austrian (8) 8 Lingering
flavour (10)
13 Beyond scientific
understanding (10) 15 Vegetable (9)
17 Secret language (3,5) 19 Luxuriated (8)
21 Irritable (6)
23 Chauffeur (6)
24 Writing material (5)
27 Quench (4)
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