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CROSSWORD No 1221

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, March 11, at Prize Crossword No 1221, Irish Mail on Sunday, Embassy House, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, enclosing your name and address. The winner of Crossword No 1220 is: Bernie Moran, Naas, Co. Kildare. Please note that due to the Covid-19 crisis, prizes will only be issued electronically.

ACROSS

1 Curry favour, get in with (10) 6 Leer at, eye up (4)

10 Case in point, precedent (7) 11 One much put upon by others, a footstool (7)

12 Car maintenance, attending a gentleman (8)

13 Skivvy, serf (5)

15 Opening sections (6)

16 Land quarry (5,3)

19 . Public officials (8)

20 A tray at the bottom of an open fire (3-3)

22 Air spirit, thin person (5)

24 Swollen, blew up (8) 26 Former French province centred round Amiens (7) 27 Docile dependent people, pets (7)

28 Eject, throw out (4) 29 Bootlicking, crawling (10)

DOWN

1 Two people in a relationship (4) 2 Bond, warranty (9) 3 Sycophants or flatterers in the US (5-9)

4 Spain and Portugal (6)

5 I get date wrong for coastal feature! (4,4)

7 Greek letter and rays (5) 8 Pleading plaintively, begging for (10)

9 Grovels, shows undue deference (4,3,7)

14 Unusual soup ski-set fawns over? (6,2,2)

17 Spicy sausage (9)

18 A phrase used in yielding precedence (5,3)

21 Zigzag down a ski slope (6) 23 Beats, laps & teacher’s pets! (5)

25 Piece of land surrounded by water (4)