CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD

NO.901

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.901, 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.900 is Patricia Misti, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Mention corrupt military establishment (3,4)

5 Dream makes follower stay involved (7)

10 Make a delivery – some crockery (4)

11 Engineers confessed to being allowed inside once more (10)

12 Cyril worked – first he provided libretto (8)

13 Require large English hypodermic (6)

14 Artisan’s mother and child (5)

16 Angry exchange you’re looking at (9)

19 Preview is terrible for estate (9)

21 Catholic inclination is a pain (5)

23 Cocktail – that’s a boring thing (6)

25 Marc composed musical in comfortable place (8)

27 Performed choral rite that requires no answer (10)

28 Your gentleman hides desire (4)

29 Include a conclusion before postscripts (7)

30 Try clue about savagery (7)

Down

2 Sarcasm may be like a metal (5)

3 Change makes collies be aggressive (9)

4 Sleazy chap holding broken rod (6)

6 Notice my French, with his translation, gets rebuke (8)

7 Let it alter heading (5)

8 Swimmer and doctor must run around instrument (5,4)

9 Pound gets something to serve fish in (6)

15 Got rid of sailor, adjusting his dole (9)

17 Who are ordered to operate store? (9)

18 Poet has wrong tree exchanged (8)

20 Canter off in a daze (6)

22 Better take top off – he’s walking (6)

24 Tardy, getting hot, turning machine (5)

26 Back-to-front, entered bar (5)