CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD

NO.509

Here’s your chance to win a Collins Concise English Dictionary. 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. 509, 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. 508 is Ben McLoughlin, Corbally, Limerick. CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Look out for marsh and good heather, it’s astonishing (4-8) 8 Appreciate inset I redesigned having aspects of grandeur (9) 9 Considered you and me in the sea (5) 11 Declare if Old Testament is found first in New York (6) 12 Commercials for underwear bearing sign of the modern era (5,3) 14 Go into fine art exhibition, badly lit on the inside (10) 16 Great Britain getting into one old language (4) 18 Charges to head off big cats (4) 19 Key for a Scot wandering this country (5,5) 21 Poor Annie is taken in by returning Liberal every couple of years (8) 22 Protein to throw into an alcoholic drink (6) 25 Old flame sends back paintings as something unexpected (5) 26 Lifeless, but popular with one Northern Ireland friend (9) 27 Identify scrounger first getting something to eat (6,6)

DOWN

1 Power of Russian fighter plane at height (5) 2 Fix chaotic life for manicurist’s assistant (8) 3 Upper edge of rib broken by male (4) 4 Grates redesigned to hold a quantity of methane holders (10) 5 Suggest going after student in a feeble way (6) 6 Lost again, wallowing in reminiscences (9) 7 One laid benefit out that can be recognised (12) 10 Musical venue tuned in excitedly and stopped (12) 13 Think little of resit I organised involving something from chemistry class (10) 15 Extremity of fringe restyled, earning an additional payment (9) 17 Sling cad out for being far from cool (8) 20 One new vehicle I entered to no effect (2,4) 23 British den for old party leader (5) 24 Wise men presenting degree to US serviceman (4)