CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD NO.905

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.905, 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.904 is Deirdre Murphy, Tralee, Co. Kerry.

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Hasten to sink (7)

5 Material – last couple

removed small subject (7)

10 Just blonde (4)

11 College on the side,

involving no others (10)

12 This writer cried about having

nothing ordinary (8)

13 Gallery housed too

much, until now (2,4)

14 Sadly, included

one pseudonym (5)

16 Season doesn’t start terribly

free, so butt in (9)

19 Permanent within shop,

British and French article (9) 21 Surpass open-air event (5)

23 Feature alteration to

space and time (6)

25 Endorse woman with one

appointment (8)

27 Past is reviewed by

lake shop (10)

28 Terrible name for a tsar (4)

29 Get comfortable with

republican colonist (7)

30 Important, wife reaching

big birthday (7)

Down

2 Stop, being about to relax (5) 3 End period – natural,

not new (9)

4 Initiate a meal outside (6)

6 Discover row is

more cheerful (8)

7 Use up patience, initially,

during broadcast (5)

8 Lease gets journalist hired (9) 9 Swine upset

one messenger (6)

15 Comes down with cloak

and painting (9)

17 Establishing student

housed an orphan (9)

18 Daughter is set a test

for aversion (8)

20 Costume like offal? (6)

22 Garment part that may

hold the record (6)

24 Decree cited in a

different way (5)

26 Farm vehicle doesn’t

finish area (5)