CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD NO.909
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. 909, 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.908 is Alex Grant, Gorey, Co. Wexford.
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Unit offered to take equipment (7) 5 Ending in debauchery
missing from French (7)
10 Brace gets fix
without engineers (4)
11 Make easy life a
tacit arrangement (10)
12 Cheapest way to sail
gives bull time (8)
13 A lot of paper gets left in fields (6) 14 A pot initially concealed
garden pest (5)
16 Scope promises to
be determined (9)
19 Attorney upsets
surgeon – risky (9)
21 Medics include new openings (5) 23 Bishop arranged diets and
accommodation (6)
25 Burning to call after tea (8)
27 Enter river,
terribly disrespectful (10)
28 The picture contains a story (4)
29 Animal going round
large, loud city (7)
30 Running by loch, having
time to be spotted (7)
Down
2 Criticise cook (5)
3 Terrible danger in Gerald’s
first hobby (9)
4 Fated to work around
English achievement (6)
6 Averse to everything
man has? Good (8)
7 Background player is surplus (5) 8 Whip a horse and
a wild feline (9)
9 Shout for second best (6)
15 Earth, say, about
European plant (5,4)
17 Trendy chap takes
answer seriously (2,7)
18 Wastes fried items (8)
20 Solved clues about
new relatives (6)
22 Fake jewels left in the shade (6) 24 Quiet pixie getting some storage (5)
26 Negative sound – from a horse (5)
QUICK CLUES Across
1 Military unit (7) 5 Musical ending (7) 10 Couple (4)
11 Make possible (10)
12 Boat navigation (8) 13 Kingdoms (6)
14 Greenfly (5)
16 Enterprising (9)
19 Perilous (9)
21 Openings (5) 23 One-roomed
accommodation (6) 25 Burning (8)
27 Blasphemous (10) 28 On a grand scale (4) 29 UK capital (7)
30 Blemished (7)
Down
2 Cook in
the oven (5)
3 Horticulture (9)
4 Rout (6) 6 Hyper-sensitive (8) 7 Additional (5)
8 Cougar (9)
9 Yell (6)
15 Tall plant (5,4)
17 Not joking (2,7)
18 Squanders (8)
20 Male
relatives (6)
22 Crayon (6)
24 Plank (5)
26 Horse’s cry (5)