CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD NO.803
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.803, 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.802 is Siobhan McQuillam, Rockcorry, Co. Monaghan.
CRYPTIC CLUES Across
8 Mole wasted empty day getting air (6)
9 Shirk, making mother hang about (8)
10 Reinfect variety that’s wild (8)
11 Twin giving actors gold (6)
12 Manage and go round (3,2)
13 Frail for a few days, by the sound of it (4)
14 About poem being in secret writing (4)
16 Presiding officer may be a tweeter (7)
18 Salad ingredient hazardous to shipping (7)
20 Poorly staff having time off (4)
21 Plain first couple left in a cosy way (4)
22 Bite top of nails during fire (5)
25 Cited incorrectly, including quiet picture (6)
27 Herb is king – a mythological figure (8)
28 Pet with a top stylist in vault (8)
29 Swear terribly about new reply (6)
Down
1 Qualification, to some extent (6)
2 Indicate safe cartridge at close quarters (5-5)
3 Tokyo transformed into another city (5)
4 Kiss an authoritarian parent (7)
5 Location – fun for a bit of rugby (5,4)
6 Training guns on herd animals (4)
7 He returns with braver exterior, with beauty in his eye (8)
14 Room with elegance is a type of accommodation (5,5)
15 Cut into crude formation (9)
17 Label making pig react badly (5,3)
19 Fabled character – a politician and a graduate (3,4)
23 Money you and I returned to nut (6)
24 Test a shilling, for example (5)
26 Land in terrible rain (4)
QUICK CLUES Across
8 Tune (6)
9 Pretend to be ill (8)
10 Fast and energetic (8)
11 Gemini twin (6)
12 Survive (3,2)
13 Feeble (4)
14 Cipher (4)
16 Hi-fi part (7)
18 Frozen mass (7)
20 Unwell (4)
21 Unattractive (4)
22 Light meal (5)
25 Portray (6)
27 Mythical reptile (8)
28 Underground cemetery (8)
29 Reply (6)
Down
1 Level (6)
2 At very close range (5-5)
3 Japanese city (5)
4 Loud kiss (7)
5 Rugby shot (5,4)
6 Wildebeest (4)
7 Onlooker (8)
14 Ship’s intermediate accommodation (5,5)
15 Decrease (9)
17 Value label (5,3)
19 Fictional woodcutter (3,4)
23 Type of nut (6)
24 Precious metal evaluation (5)
26 Middle Eastern country (4)