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.768, 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.767 is Niamh Ryan, Lucan, Co. Dublin.
CRYPTIC CLUES Across
9 Super design for a bag (5) 10 Copes badly in this place,
where life is (9)
11 Upset dame – feeling
was justifiable (4,5)
12 Key to dire concoction –
removed moisture (5)
13 Drink hers around
railway (6)
14 Blotter used with one
set of words (8)
16 Song about scoundrel,
somewhere idyllic (7)
18 Difficult, about to have
nothing but eggs (4,3)
20 Fine appointment about
lice problem (8)
22 Suddenly reappeared
in retro trousers (6)
25 Inclines to be thin
and small (5)
26 Changing a lot, urban
capital (4,5)
28 A French lead gets
journalist set free (9)
29 Principal cook around
island (5)
Down
1 Betting in the morning
brings unwanted mail (4)
2 Fellow finds bank cooler (6) 3 Calculated and
thoughtful (8)
4 Begin new existence (5)
5 Conflict about rose arrangement in anticipation (9)
6 Heard – saw – that woman
get a creepy-crawly (6)
7 Notice a directory (8)
8 Contest to set between
leaders (4-2-4)
13 Improper shoe to get
around round America (10) 15 Worry about feel
in drawing (9)
17 Turn record – guy outside
is to blame (8)
19 Turn to support
restoration (8)
21 Another actor finds price –
a rupee (2-4)
23 Keep alien in bad
conditions (6)
24 Starts to bother a writer –
decent, yet indecent (5)
27 Vessel right at the back (4)
QUICK CLUES Across
9 Money bag (5)
10 Layer around
planet (9)
11 Was intelligible (4,5) 12 Desiccated (5)
13 Fortified wine (6)
14 Words in
an opera (8)
16 Pastoral idyll (7)
18 Fish eggs (4,3)
20 Brittle (8)
22 Widening (6) 25 Inclines (5)
26 Capital of
Mongolia (4,5)
28 Set free (9)
29 Leader (5)
Down
1 Unwanted mail (4) 2 Kitchen
appliance (6)
3 Steady (8)
4 Creature (5)
5 Forward
planning (9) 6 Arachnid (6)
7 Enrol (8)
8 Confrontation (4-2-4) 13 Discreditable (10)
15 Carved
drawing (9)
17 Blameworthy (8)
19 Restoration to
an earlier state (8)
21 Fellow actor (2-4)
23 Keep (6)
24 Ribald (5)
27 Primitive vessel (4)