CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD

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. 583, 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. 583 is Pamela Rossiter, Gorey, Co. Wexford.

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Accommodation gets stolen by the Spanish (5) 4 Leaving drape out with true style (9) 9 Neil wasted money first, reaching level of poverty (9) 10 Mine includes the French hairstyle (5) 11 Disastrous cart crash involves soldier (6) 12 Journalist gets engineers a dark form of beer (8) 14 Here’s to me playing in a group (9) 15 Time right to finish in a general direction (5) 17 Principal is in taxi coming back (5) 19 Remember about being paid by the receiver in America (9) 22 Attendant has been putting in strange rites (8) 24 At home, lust turned out to be slight (6) 26 Article gives thanks to the eighth character (5) 27 Military exercise performed in the theatre (9) 28 Broke sail hoist, leading to unpleasant complaint (9) 29 Decorate new red ship (5)

Down

1 Custom brings a tenor home (7) 2 Suture has been wound around wordy book (9) 3 Technophobe gets religious man one instrument outside (7) 4 Feeble person provides constant supply (4) 5 Money takes in new creed, revealing superiority (10) 6 Music and wine have a mutual understanding (7) 7 Put off getting sodium – that’s hardly suitable (5) 8 Came in as teen changed to shade of embarrassment (7) 13 Medium-heeled attire worn during trial (5,5) 16 Senior businessman in a branch of government (9) 17 Irritation after web is spun in entrance (7) 18 Dried fruit makes dog shout (7) 20 Boy has yarn about sailing equipment (7) 21 Disease test involved getting article on uranium (7) 23 Impression made by student is most suitable (5) 25 Untidy officers’ room (4)