WIN €100 WITH IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY

CROSSWORD No 1278

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, April 14, at Prize Crossword No 1278, Irish Mail on Sunday, Two Haddington Buildings, 20-38 Haddington Road, Dublin 4, D04 HE94, enclosing your name, address, phone number and email address. The winner of Crossword No 1277 is: Lorna Smyth, Waterford. Please note that prizes will only be issued electronically.

ACROSS

1 Euphoric feelings (5)

4 Carpenter’s tool (4-5)

9 Domestic catching device (9)

10 Bury, entomb (5)

11 Heavy tool, car & insect (6)

12 Fruit producer (4-4)

14 Stonemason’s tool (4,6)

16 Ancient civilization (4)

19 Satisfy, gorge (4)

20 Medical skill or attendance (10)

22 Labourers’ tools (8)

23 Seamus and Eric carry this tool! (6)

26 Deprive of staff (5)

27 Zealot, die-hard (9)

28 A tool for cutting decorative strips (6-3)

29 Registers, cultivates (5)

DOWN

1 Baleen whales (9)

2 A tool for making grooves or holes (5)

3 TV detective series (8)

4 Benchmark, yardstick (4)

5 Tools, utensils (10)

6 Gripping tool (6)

7 Metalworker’s tool (3-6)

13 8 Cavalry Domestic pretension, collectively tools oddly! with (3-7) (5)

15 Tardy individual (9)

17 Device, contraption (9)

18 Deck, dress up (8)

21 Lecherous, sensual (6)

22 Devices with metal pins (5)

24 Tool, plant row & training exercise (5)

25 Over-infuse tea, bathe in sweat (4)