CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD
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.753, 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.752 is Nora Fisher, Athy, Co. Kildare.
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Unit offered to take equipment (7)
5 Dense cosmetics case (7) 10 Drink and complain audibly (4)
11 Eccentric person acted strangely behind room (5,5)
12 This year, wild frenzy (8) 13 Pleasant, having to return poster (6)
14 Frighten a spy (5) 16 Enchanting crooner has unusual guile (9) 19 Length – approximate and free (9)
21 Pass on part of the digestive system (5)
23 Like this, covers what a baby doesn’t eat (6) 25 Erase her letters in train (8) 27 Elicit blot out of painter (10)
28 Time to change something (4)
29 Series, taking on storm (7) 30 Almost suggest returning gold at speed (7)
Down
2 Clever, taking top off when wet (5)
3 Good to cover heavy garment (9)
4 Leave the Gobi, say (6) 6 Explorer throwing a cane out (8)
7 Weave mine around French article (5)
8 Soccer den involved in build-up (9)
9 Service station makes Georgia fume (6)
15 Hop off to join ape in facsimile (9)
17 Search a match for twin (4-5)
18 Car icons designed for Napoleon, say (8) 20 Rules out coordinate, without doubt (6)
22 Quiet stream, high-pitched (6)
24 Faint elation about information (5) 26 Contemptuous remark from Poles on English queen (5)
QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Military unit (7) 5 Closely-packed (7) 10 Alcoholic drink (4) 11 Deluded person (5,5) 12 Wildness (8) 13 Observe (6)
14 Ghost (5)
16 Intriguing (9) 19 Unrestricted (9) 21 Punctuation mark (5) 23 Non-liquid food (6)
25 Practise (8) 27 Renaissance painter (10)
28 Thing (4)
29 Hurricane (7)
30 Musical tempo (7) Down
2 Showery (5)
3 Heavy outer garment (9) 4 Abandon (6) 6 Submarine explorer (8)
7 Interlaced strand of hair (5)
8 Gradually increasing sound (9)
9 Car port (6)
15 Printed reproduction (9) 17 Living image (4-5) 18 French islander (8) 20 Certainly (6)
22 Piercing (6)
24 Military information (5) 26 Mock (5)