★ CROSSWORD NO 1,847 ★

TO ENTER Complete the crossword and count how many times the letter ‘T’ appears in the grid. Post your entry to YOU Crossword No 1,847, PO Box 5332, Cardiff Lane, Dublin 2. Closing date is Friday, April 7. One random winner from all correct entries will win a €15 book voucher. The winner will be notified within 14 days (telephone number required). Solution in two weeks.

ACRoSS

1 Tiny bits of the loaf used in cooking (11)

7 What you want in cards or tennis (3)

9 Male chicken fattened for eating (5)

10 Objects placed across a road to stop people getting past (9)

11 Large metal containers to keep people warm outside (8)

12 Airless, stifling (6)

14 Type of communication that doesn’t require words (9)

15 Unit for measuring the weight of diamonds (5)

17 What, in short, were banned last summer (5)

19 State of tiredness, laziness, or lack of interest (9)

21 (and 5 down) The protagonist in 7, 13 down (6,4)

23 Well-known, recognised (8)

25 Pulling the strings of a violin etc with fingers rather than by using the bow (9)

26 Oscar-winner Jeremy had Christopher Biggins as his best man (5)

27 Fish you might pay for on receipt? (3)

28 Ornaments with raised designs (11)

DoWn

1 The sort of British MP who is not part of the Government (9)

2 Make clear or plain (7)

3 Gloominess (9)

4 The author of

7, 13 down (6,4)

5 See 21 across

6 What 21 across and 5 down was made in 1935 (5)

7 (and 13 down) Play – set during the reign of Henry VIII

– which was turned into a 1966 film (1,3,3,3,7)

8 Opposition, foe (5)

13 See 7 down

15 ‘I can take any amount of _________ so long as it is unqualified praise’: Noël Coward (9)

16 Speculates, hypothesises (9)

18 Napped, kipped (7)

20 Imaginary creature (7)

21 Issue, subject (5)

22 First name of 21 across and 5 down’s wife (5)

24 Baby sheep (4)