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.799, 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.798 is Cathy Ryan, Cabra West, Dublin 7.

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

8 Go on about a walk (6)

9 Check expensive-sounding

animal (8)

10 Sad vocal performance

shows spirit (8)

11 Decorated or terribly neat (6) 12 Local game in Midlands city (5) 13 Departed, returning

novel on time (4)

14 Appeased with vegetables (4) 16 Mad Scot accepting

greeting in intervals (7)

18 In a translucent

way, evidently (7)

20 Fellow, elderly, to

cease trading (4)

21 Staff has a way to travel (4)

22 Reportedly upset a

foreign leader (5)

25 Insect with small

head, a little bit (6)

27 Notices a different propeller (8) 28 Italian enamel is rubbish (8)

29 Blue variety not available

around cloud (6)

Down

1 Father read about

procession (6)

2 Higher than directors,

to be honest (5,5)

3 Documents actions (5)

4 Cut danger in wager (7)

5 British Lion myth changes

every two weeks (9)

6 Brooding about god (4)

7 Food beat working in

shopping centre (8)

14 Wandering beach with

ample dessert (5,5)

15 He’ll fetch the dog (9)

17 Caught in which way mine

turned into an exotic dish (4,4) 19 Walks horses

around church (7)

23 At home, lust somehow

becomes slight (6)

24 Stupid pub has a point (5)

26 Uninspiring sort of bard (4)