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 with your name and address to: Cryptic/Quick Crossword No.903, 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.902 is Fiadh Mallon, Killarney, Co. Kerry.
CRYPTIC CLUES Across
8 Cited incorrectly, including
quiet picture (6)
9 Afterwards returning about objection and refutation (8)
10 Cold beer ordered right next to American guard dog (8)
11 Provide in a lithe way? (6)
12 Good time to have registered as a cleaner (5)
13 Cut article removed from county (4)
14 Altering time is such a small thing (4)
16 Explosive military leader (7)
18 Number incorporated organised duel (7)
20 Search, without catholic getting resentful (4)
21 Sketch a tie (4)
22 Fund energy, down, out of sorts (5)
25 Hot fruit loaf left out (6)
27 Cultivate and deliver a worker (8)
28 Cottage design has one think (8)
29 Remove from French permit, to a point (6)
Down
1 More about taking alien to be a distant visitor (6)
2 Older, relative to controlling influence (3,7)
3 Broadcast most, having registered furore (5)
4 Total obliteration of an 80s pop act (7)
5 Degradation in a cellar (9)
6 Phase pets out (4)
7 After party, old man asked to vote (8)
14 A cello hymn produced sadness (10)
15 Italian to fish, almost, with Scot (9)
17 Assuming nowadays there’s a choice (8)
19 Offers, as a prize, a gentleman thief (7)
23 Decorated – alternatively, terribly neat (6)
24 Angry speech, having lost current business (5)
26 Help after front of load is put down (4)
QUICK CLUES Across
8 Portray (6)
9 Denial (8)
10 Hound of Hades (8)
11 Stock (6)
12 Besom (5)
13 Fit (4)
14 Tiny arachnid (4)
16 Explosive part of missile (7)
18 Encompass (7)
20 Bitter (4)
21 Sketch (4)
22 Bequeath (5)
25 Taken unlawfully (6)
27 Agricultural
worker (8)
28 Contemplate (8)
29 Cross out (6)
Down
1 Shooting star (6)
2 Controlling
organisation (3,7)
3 Tempest (5)
4 Complete removal (7)
5 Humiliation (9)
6 Stair (4)
7 Asked to
vote secretly (8)
14 Gloom (10)
15 Italian islander (9)
17 Acquisition (8)
19 Tombolas (7)
23 Elaborate (6)
24 Deal (5)
26 Put down (4)