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.829, 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.828 is Eamonn Phelan, Youghal, Co. Cork.
CRYPTIC CLUES Across
1 Dearest son is inside cupboard (7)
5 Riches distributed by hard love (7)
10 Just a lake (4)
11 Left a wife to wave to offender (10)
12 Doctor taken by new lichen issue (8)
13 Upset me with tiny antagonism (6)
14 Some rituals have commendation (5)
16 First person heard batsman was a revelation (3,6)
19 Following rules next to tome (2,3,4)
21 Almost cite a share (5)
23 Poet to leave European article (6)
25 Cephalgia can be a nuisance (8)
27 Comfort once cloned inaccurately (10)
28 Enthusiastically removing first couple without purpose (4)
29 Slide off, holding the old features (7)
30 Choirs performing about knight from county (7)
Down
2 Bloodsucker finds shelter by church (5)
3 Explosive search for some seafood (9)
4 Earnings as transported by the French railway (6)
6 Henry bores about bull having something to travel in (8)
7 More almonds around field (5) 8 Candy for dessert, and beef, say (9)
9 Score a number of points (6) 15 Eccentric yet gloomy derivation (9)
17 Bird language has nothing for reproduction (9)
18 Sailor went by ship, say, and used rope (8)
20 Performing assistant is ready (2,4)
22 Look over black, round pavilion (6)
24 Time dial worked like some rivers (5)
26 Gaps in entireties, we hear (5)
QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Most adjacent (7)
5 Adore (7)
10 Lake (4)
11 Criminal (10)
12 Youngsters (8)
13 Hatred (6)
14 Deserve (5)
16 Revelation (3,6)
19 According to the rules (2,3,4)
21 Allocation (5)
23 German poet (6) 25 Painful affliction (8)
27 Sympathy (10)
28 With no particular purpose (4)
29 Facial features (7)
30 From an English county (7)
Down
2 Parasite (5)
3 Type of seafood (9)
4 Wage (6)
6 Equine trailer (8)
7 Kingdom (5) 8 Item of confectionery (9)
9 Number (6)
15 Word’s origin (9)
17 Imitation (9)
18 Descended using rope (8)
20 Available (2,4)
22 Summer house (6)
24 Affected by changes in sea level (5)
26 Gaps (5)