WIN €100 WITH IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY CROSSWORD No 1039

ACROSS

1 Confess, come clean (3,2) 4 Ragtime’s unusual journey? (7) 9 Overthrown, knocked off one’s pedestal (9) 10 Manchester United legend (5) 11 Central American state (6) 12 Renowned,epoch-making (8) 13 Psychiatrist’s contract? (6) 15 One’s second self (5,3) 18 Hard, dry biscuits (8) 19 Sanity, think out (6) 20 Intense irrational suspicion (8) 22 Bloody-minded,

perverse (6) 25 Top class, exclusive (5) 26 Fits of uncontrollable

crying (or laughing) (9) 27 Hypothesised,

estimated (7) 28 Men of great wisdom (5)

DOWN

1 Freudian psychological condition (7,7) 2 Socially unacceptable (3,2) 3 An obsessive desire to set fire to things (9) 4 Consciousness, direction of the will (4) 5 Movie monster (8) 6 General feeling of anxiety (5) 7 Fervour, enthusiasm (9) 8 Mental therapy (14) 14 Regressing, yielding (9) 16 Beauty products (9) 17 Rituals followed obsessively (8) 21 Relative, relation (5) 23 Lively dance, cast & affair (5) 24 Manipulated, worn (4)