CROSSWORD No 1096

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, October 18, at Prize Crossword No 1096, Irish Mail on Sunday, Embassy House, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, enclosing your name and address. The winner of Crossword No 1095 is: Jimmy Ryan, Glenbeigh, Co.Kerry.

ACROSS

1 Perform winter sport (3-5) 5 Canadian province (6) 9 US toll road (8) 10 Restored to health, fostered (6) 12 Male hairstyle (6) 13 Three-footed tapir led astray! (8) 15 Russian city (2,10) 19 Insatiable, voracious (12) 22 Lessened, tapered off (8) 24 Part of the eye (6) 26 Fault-finder, moaner (6) 27 Unimportant, trivial (8) 28 Alone, only (6) 29 Gloss over, soft-pedal (4,4) DOWN 1 Eventually, keeping rhythm (2,4) 2 In a strangely frightening way (6) 3 Loud item of 1970s male apparel (6,3) 4 Opinion, gate & capture (4) 6 Commandeer, seize (5) 7 Orchestral instrument (4,4) 8 Nonsense, twaddle (8) 11 Premiership football club (7) 14 Alighted, sat (7) 16 Angling lure (6,3) 17 Tanning terraces (3-5) 18 Arboreal rodent (8) 20 A deep blue colour (6) 21 Sci-fi weapon (3-3) 23 Live, reside (5) 25 Pertaining to the mouth (4)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION, No 1095:

ACROSS: 1 Grand Hotel 6 Itch 9 Reams 10 Time trial 12 Carry On Behind 14 Adorning 15 Faulty 17 Gaffer 19 Tennyson 21 Doctor At Large 24 Desperate 25 Ketch 26 Edam 27 Rollerball

DOWN: 1 Guru 2 Ajaccio 3 Dr Strangelove 4 Outlying 5 Eamon 7 Trivial 8 Holiday Inn 11 The Pawnbroker 13 Jagged Edge 16 Pell-mell 18 Fuchsia 20 Spectra 22 Alamo 23 Rhyl