WIN €100 WITH IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY

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, February 3, at Prize Crossword No 1268, 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 1267 is: Christeia Taboreia, Dublin 7. Please note that due to the Covid-19 crisis, prizes will only be issued electronically. ACROSS

1 They generally grow in kitchen gardens (3-5)

5 Subtropical grass (6)

9 Wasted, squandered (8)

10 A ball of shot (6)

12 Fascination, enticement (6)

13 Grotesquely carved figure (8)

15 Tall grass, or gloom in Northern England? (9,3)

18 Marsh grass, or rodent appendage? (8-4)

23 Spotted songbirds (8)

24 Role, workplace (6)

26 Grasses, darts & unedited film scenes (6)

27 A tall aquatic grass, zizania (4,4)

28 The prairie-wolf (6)

29 Untrustworthy, false (8)

DOWN

1 Grassy plains (6)

2 Set-to, contest (6)

3 Strong grass ruined seaport? (7)

4 Wiry grass, criminal & inclination (4)

6 One exacting retribution (7)

7 How a hockey match once

8 started Override, (5-3) take precedence over (8)

11 Heavy S. American working knife (7)

14 See trek going awry – the US mosquito! (7)

16 Mysterious, secret (8)

17 Channel Island (8)

19 Homage, reverence (7)

20 Non-Christian or Non-Muslim (7)

21 Bad-mouth, abuse (6)

22 Food grass on TV show, we hear? (6)

25 Pacific nation (4)