CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD NO.913
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.913, 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.912 is Terry McGuire, Sandycove, Co. Dublin.
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
8 Creator is a universal deity (6)
9 Knight getting clean away a great deal (8)
10 Solitary figure to turn rest out (8)
11 Former pupil finds the first application stupid (6)
12 Caught nobleman backing an undesirable person (5)
13 Sun shows beginning, but no ending (4)
14 Settle around lake and have fun (4)
16 Suggested rascal wasn’t honest (7)
18 Shake object in stone (7)
20 Insult indistinctly (4)
21 Search for fashion (4)
22 Thong showing second catch (5)
25 Cheap accommodation for spread’s top reporters (6)
27 Record guile used with old postscript (8)
28 Jewellery around European ship is a boon (8)
29 Sign replaces spades with English bits (6)
Down
1 Bountiful sign of pregnancy?
I’m not sure (6)
2 Ruler getting opportunity to roll back (10)
3 Shred wonderful report (5)
4 Left a rook in metropolis, for transparency (7)
5 Endorse bravery, following directions (9)
6 Incentive to have money (4)
7 Loyal prisoner, good man, worker (8)
14 Favourite edition, edited, was appealing (10)
15 Matter-of-fact articles rewritten about first person (9)
17 Spy greeting students – that’ll ruin the lawn (8)
19 Displaying no grief? That’s strange (7)
23 Charm gets a courier time (6)
24 Trendy river animal (5)
26 The matter of the bag (4)
QUICK CLUES
Across
8 Writer (6)
9 Arthurian character (8)
10 Unmarried woman (8)
11 Slow-witted (6)
12 Sneak (5)
13 Celestial body (4)
14 Drama (4)
16 Suggested (7)
18 Stir (7)
20 Slight (4)
21 Appearance (4)
22 Fastening (5)
25 Rudimentary houses (6)
27 Afterword (8)
28 Boon (8)
29 Bits (6)
Down
1 Vehicle protection (6)
2 Head of the Exchequer (10)
3 Fireplace (5)
4 Lucidness (7)
5 Cheer (9)
6 European coin (4)
7 Continual (8)
14 Appealed (10)
15 Practical (9)
17 Animal construction (8)
19 Exotic (7)
23 Trinket (6)
24 Large animal (5)
26 Affair (4)