WIN €100 WITH IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY

CROSSWORD No 1074

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, May 17, at Prize Crossword No 1074 Irish Mail on Sunday, Embassy House, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, enclosing your name and address. The winner of Crossword No 1073 is: John Clune, Drogheda, Co. Louth.

ACROSS

1 Traffic-light girl (5) 4 US state girl (7) 9 Pizza and cocktail girl (9) 10 Lightweight synthetic fabric (5) 11 Join up, sign on (6) 12 Tobacco girl (8) 13 Fortified wine girl (6) 15 Nice gala arranged for girl? (8) 18 Touring promotional group (8) 19 Girl’s on the small side, we hear! (6) 21 N American birds, Toronto’s baseball team (4,4) 23 Found, unearthed (6) 26 Pool girl (5) 27 Unfaithful type (9) 28 Romantic poet’s girl (7) 29 Willow girl (5)

DOWN

1 Irresolute, haphazard (7) 2 Pale green girl (5) 3 Comforts, soothes (9) 4 This girl sounds like a typhoon! (4) 5 Public speeches (8) 6 A political prison in the old USSR (5) 7 Rise, climb (9) 8 Desert area (6) 14 Clears out, quits (9) 16 Moves abroad (9) 17 A now unisex hairstyle (8) 18 Chide, censure (6) 20 Old, of advanced years (7) 22 Modernist writer’s girl (5) 24 Hymn girl (5) 25 Deep crimson girl (4)