WIN €100 WITH IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY CROSSWORD No 1029

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, July 6, at Prize Crossword No 1029, Irish Mail on Sunday, Embassy House, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, enclosing your name and address. The winner of Crossword No 1028 is: Hermione Kelly, Birr, Co. Offaly.

ACROSS

1 More mature, mellower (5) 4 Member of a secretive society (9) 9 The wedding entertainment, say (5,4) 10 French red wine (5) 11 Heretofore, recently (6) 12 Preference, privilege (8) 14 Made up, placated (10) 16 Again, afresh (4) 19 Neuter a female animal (4) 20 Dry white wine (10) 22 Let-up, amnesty (8) 23 Black Sea port (6) 26 Mild Irish oath (5) 27 Changed to another use (9) 28 Author of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ (9) 29 Gaseous element at atomic no.54 (5)

DOWN

1 States of readiness in crisis situations (3,6) 2 Variety of grape and wine (5) 3 Dry white German table wine (8) 4 German lady (4) 5 Wild fruit often used to make wine (10) 6 Light-bodied red wine (6) 7 Wine from the Loire valley(9) 8 Poor, deprived (5) 13 Light sharp Portuguese wine (5,5) 15 White sparkling wine (9) 17 Old council official is dawnweary, possibly! (3,6) 18 Dark-red French wine (8) 21 European capital and light-coloured wine (6) 22 Ceremonial garb (5) 24 The Evil One (5) 25 Dry white wine, fire & bag (4)