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.831, 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.830 is Fodhla Murphy, Bray, Co. Wicklow.

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

8 Blessing good man inside city (6)

9 Got into a bed another way (8)

10 Noticed authentic side improved (8)

11 He shows gratitude, removing second ship (6)

12 Silicon chosen to surround shell (5)

13 Worry race will be diverted (4)

14 Snack at end of recording (4)

16 Unwelcome revelation seen on back of car (7)

18 Steam it off, now and then (2,5)

20 Few got upset about current partner (4)

21 Bearing seat away (4)

22 Convey iron by registered railway (5)

25 Transport favourite bit of decor (6)

27 Occasion for fashionable position (8)

28 Derek, conscious, in a state (8)

29 Spared from complex emptiness (6)

Down

1 Dance jacket (6)

2 Static tale about rock formation (10)

3 Sang about the initial anxiety (5)

4 Appropriate time for a greeting (4,3)

5 Law is about alien figure (9)

6 Manner is miserly, by the sound of it (4)

7 Drink, bishop’s first, always on time (8)

14 Ministerial proposal providing colour, daily (5,5)

15 Cold steel form one found by a lake – heavenly (9)

17 Clerics rip off friends (8)

19 Hoped, nowadays, steeple would be included (7)

23 Fixed price on European formula (6)

24 Duchess expected to have a lot of land (5)

26 Reported quick look in summit (4)