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.828, 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.827 is Thomas Moloney, Lattin, Co. Tipperary.
CRYPTIC CLUES Across
9 Period before sporting
event at university (3-2)
10 Welcome a function (9)
11 Leave toes wriggling?
Kitty declines (4,2,3)
12 Rowers had dinner, we hear (5) 13 Vital review on a country (6)
14 Displaying is considerate (8)
16 Having money, but thinner (7) 18 Easy aim of antiperspirant (2,5) 20 Servant to hold back queen (8) 22 Stones initially destined
for flooring (6)
25 Reported spectacles
and locations (5)
26 Surpass one sign for
shapely bushes (9)
28 Again, bring new
reed organ (9)
29 The last to reserve virtual
entertainment (1-4)
Down
1 Mist enveloping
river creature (4)
2 Fashionable stone has succeeded, but not seriously (2,4)
3 Show contempt and
dismiss fighter (8)
4 Diagram shows head of
geography playing harp (5)
5 Britons yearn to
be evergreen (5,4)
6 Seem a very quiet listener (6)
7 Dim guise managed
to delude (8)
8 Started eccentric
dating site (10)
13 Endure spa, when all else
has failed (4,6)
15 Observant musical about
having accommodation (9)
17 Parallel freedom (8)
19 Philosopher boxes
like this first (8)
21 Within single part of boot (6)
23 Chief rioted in a new way (6)
24 Rust treatment includes
phosphorus spray (5)
27 Purpose of alcoholic drink (4)
QUICK CLUES
Across
9 Preceding
period (3-2)
10 Acceptance (9)
11 Deteriorates (4,2,3) 12 Number (5)
13 European
country (6)
14 Gentlemanly (8)
16 Debt-free (7)
18 It doesn’t
matter (2,5)
20 Periodic payment (8) 22 Long, tedious
speech (6)
25 Locations (5)
26 Ornamentally
shaped shrubs (9) 28 Convey again (9) 29 Novel in digital
form (1-4)
Down
1 Amphibian (4)
2 Not seriously (2,4) 3 Fighter plane (8)
4 Diagram (5) 5 Evergreen tree (5,4)
6 Turn up (6)
7 Deceive (8)
8 Set in motion (10)
13 Final course
of action (4,6)
15 Watchful (9)
17 Leeway (8)
19 Greek philosopher (8) 21 Shoe part (6)
23 Newspaper chief (6) 24 Gush (5)
27 Benefit (4)