CROSSWORD

TO ENTER Complete the crossword and count how many times the letter ‘X’ appears in the grid. Post your entry to YOU Crossword No 1,574, PO Box 5332, Cardiff Lane, Dublin 2. Closing date is Friday, January 5. One random winner from all correct entries will win €100 and five runners-up will win €25 each. Winners will be notified within 14 days. Solution in two weeks

ACROSS

6 Graduates of a university (6)

8 Archetype, prototype (8)

10 What Australian cricket fans call 25 across (8)

11 Island in the 7 down (6) 12 Dirty (6) 13 Island in the 7 down (5)

15 Trespass, interrupt (7)

17 In the customary manner (2,5)

19 Capital of Jordan (5)

20 Part of body between neck and diaphragm (6)

22 Virgil’s mythological hero (6)

23 Island in the 7 down (8)

24 Still, peaceful (8)

25 What British cricket fans call 10 across (6)

DOWN

1 False perceptions (9) 2 Island in the 7 down (6)

3 Island in the 7 down (7)

4 Baseball bowlers (8)

5 Capital of Afghanistan (5)

7 Inland sea that is between the south of Europe and north of Africa (13)

9 Entertainer who does amusing imitations of well-known people (13)

14 The New Testament Parable of the Good __________ (9)

16 Capital of Syria (8)

18 Word used to emphasise that something happens to you rather than other people (7)

20 Country with a 7 down coastline (6)

21 Irish county (5)