CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD

NO.739

Here’s your chance to win a €15 book token. 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.739, 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.738 is Aoibhe Dillon, New Ross, Co. Wexford.

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

8 Kitty has time for soup (6)

9 Expert has strange date with river crocodile, say (8)

10 Countryman bags his first bird (8) 11 Not much money for a leather-worker (6)

12 Sound in estuary is heard (5) 13 Charge put on time and distance (4)

14 Betting on a new bridge (4) 16 Arrogant when getting robbed (5-2)

18 Praise answer from some French, behind schedule (7) 20 Expensive-sounding animal (4) 21 Continuing like this before long (4)

22 Second colour shows period of time (5)

25 Actor gets a composition right (6) 27 Lack flavouring – Thor cooked interior (8)

28 Until abs somehow generate capital (8)

29 Romeo following around plant (6)

Down

1 Trouble relative – no right (6) 2 Mark pursues crazy range on island (10)

3 Go off notes in twenty-four hours (5)

4 Irrational article contained in alien name (7)

5 Cute, tried out virtue (9)

6 Spirit admits a profit (4)

7 Witches and worker reach agreement (8)

14 A left turn inside terminus to find address (10)

15 Agree with writer after bus goes back (9)

17 A sitter worked on English essay (8)

19 Provide comfort at desk (7) 23 Deployed gun to obtain a little bit (6)

24 Foyer initially protecting gold church (5)

26 Seize old king and sailor (4)

QUICK CLUES

Across

8 Thick soup (6) 9 Hunter (8)

10 Game bird (8) 11 Sixpence (6) 12 Grating noise (5) 13 Units of length (4) 14 Duration (4) 16 Conceited (5-2) 18 Praise excessively (7)

20 Ruminant mammal (4) 21 Shortly (4)

22 Period of work (5) 25 Old word for actor (6)

27 Deficiency (8)

28 Turkish city (8)

29 Fodder plant (6) Down

1 Trouble (6)

2 African island (10)

3 Rot (5)

4 Nickname (7) 5 Righteousness (9) 6 Profit (4)

7 Formal agreement (8) 14 Greeting (10)

15 Buy regularly (9) 17 Dissertation (8) 19 Control panel (7) 23 Small lump (6) 24 Veranda (5)

26 Snatch (4)