WIN €100 WITH IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY CROSSWORD No 1018

A prize of €100 will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution drawn from a hat Entries must be received by Thursday, April 20, at Prize Crossword No 1018, Irish Mail on Sunday, Embassy House, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, enclosing your name and address. The winner of Crossword No 1017 is: Patrick Deasy, Mullingar, Co Westmeath

ACROSS

1 Horse equipment and football team (5) 4 Frustrates, obstructs (7) 9 Winter Olympic sportsperson (3,6) 10 A Middle-Easterner (5) 11 Salad vegetable (6) 12 The literary language of India (8) 13 Lyrical, imaginative (6) 15 Makers and sellers of horse equipment (8) 18 Horse equipment and flashing lights (8) 19 Towards the back of a boat (6) 21 Since, to the extent that (8) 23 S. American transport animals (6) 26 Cunning, wary of (5) 27 A piece of equipment for grooming horses (9) 28 Horse equipment to make use of (7) 29 A severe thrashing (5)

DOWN

1 Ear bone and a piece of horse equipment (7) 2 Flip over (5) 3 Knockabout comedy (9) 4 Nail, food & horse equipment (4) 5 Humdrum, run-of–the-mill (8) 6 Horse equipment rules, by the sound of it! (5) 7 Coastal current? (3,6) 8 Horse equipment and measures of thickness (6) 14 Girl to bite Hazel savagely! (9) 16 Exhibited, on show (9) 17 Kiddie’s transport (8) 18 Take umbrage at horse equipment (6) 20 Horse-feeding equipment (7) 22 Municipal office-holder (5) 24 Indigenous New Zealander (5) 25 Eye part (4)