WIN €100 WITH IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION, No 1237
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, July 8, at Prize Crossword No 1238, Irish Mail on Sunday, Two Haddington Buildings, 20-38 Haddington Road, Dublin 4, D04 HE94, enclosing your name and address. The winner of Crossword No 1237 is: Aine Cullinan, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. Please note that due to the Covid-19 crisis, prizes will only be issued electronically. ACROSS
1 Vigour, forcefulness (3-2-3-2) 6 Body part (4)
9 Group of eight musicians (5) 10 Attacks physically or verbally (5,4)
12 Below the belt, anything goes (2-5-6)
14 A brief violent action (8) 15 City occupied by the Nazis 1941-44 (6)
17 Ferocious type, tooth deposit (6)
19 Kill, put to death (8) 21 Confused anxiety, trepidation (13) 24 New wolf breed one’s seen in park? (6-3)
25 Pull, drag (5)
26 Wound, swelling (4) 27 Disreputable member of family? (5,5)
DOWN
1 A hired thug (4)
2 Huge, extremely big (7) 3 Prearranged military engagement (7,6) 4 Annoying, vexing (8) 5 Lawn, squealer & pot (5) 7 Guts, entrails (7)
ACROSS: 1 Minnie Mouse 10 Tweety-Pie 11 Snowy 12 Natives 14 Deputy Dawg 16 Pony 18+13 Bart Simpson 19 Barbershop 24 Daylong 25 Added up 27 Climb 28 Bugs Bunny 29 Tom and Jerry
DOWN: 2 Inept 3 Nativity 4 Exposed 5 Oversaw 6 Sesame 7 Stoned 8 Forsooth 9 Sydney
15 Porky Pig 17 Credible 18 Bodice 20 Algebra 21 Bragged 22 Popeye 23 Boo-Boo 26 Donor 8 Massacres, slaughters (10) 11 Scraps in earnest (5-2,6) 13 Hand-to-hand combat? (10) 16 Pertaining to arms and regalia (8)
18 Vindictiveness, bad feeling (7)
20 The freight-carrying capacity of a ship (7)
22 Run riot, mutiny (5) 23 Stronghold, board & retain (4)
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