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.???, 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.833 is
Des Havelin, Drumcondra, Dublin 9.
CRYPTIC CLUES Across
1 More becoming, holding
old instrument (5)
4 Drop sympathy and
become despondent (4,5)
9 Patriot to tire and falter (4-5)
10 Salute Greek leader by
twisted tree (5)
11 Try to improve philosopher,
wasting second (6)
12 Broke trance, so he was earlier (8) 14 Daughter and wife, selling
off homes (9)
15 The front concealed
around river part (5)
17 Hurry to organise heats (5)
19 Rush over for collection (4-5)
22 Somehow girl’s married
me inside and shines (8)
24 Youngster finding rodent
behind mat (3,3)
26 Topless dresses
produce shocks (5)
27 Very cold, to baffle animal (6,3)
28 Downtrodden bird given a kiss (9) 29 Leave and make
arrangement for organ (5)
Down
1 Denied judge composed duet (7) 2 Praise bad conditions inside
– that’s stupid (9)
3 Firm and healthy, accommodating
British instrument (7)
4 Zero affection (4)
5 Indestructible spades, say –
that’s what one’s good at (6,4)
6 Head is most intoxicated (7)
7 Declare on time to
change course (5)
8 Taught Edward to
take rout badly (7)
13 Swear about getting new support
to show insolence (6,4)
16 Turns bonfire up, that
dulls the pain (9)
17 ‘Pig and Hart’, recreated
by painter (7)
18 Means mixing
directions together (2,5)
20 Our improvised chant
is stimulating (7)
21 Former spouse loved to go round backwards, having recovered health (7)
23 Food container didn’t start
in former empire (5)
25 Sharp as a group of detectives (4)
THE PAGE’S QUICK CLUES Across
1 Medieval instrument (5)
4 Become
discouraged (4,5)
9 Patriot (4-5)
10 Salute (5)
11 Travelling repairman (6) 12 Predecessor (8)
14 Residences (9)
15 Fraction (5)
17 Rush (5)
19 Monetary collection (4-5) 22 Gleams (8) 24 Young child (3,3) 26 Sways (5)
27 Thick-coated
mammal (6,3)
28 Browbeaten (9) 29 Bodily organ (5)
Down
1 Disproved (7)
2 Stupid (9)
3 Percussion
instrument (7)
4 Cherish (4)
5 Speciality (6,4) 6 Most lofty (7)
7 Turn aside (5)
8 Instructed (7)
13 Be impertinent (6,4)
16 Analgesic (9)
17 English engraver
and satirist (7)
18 As a whole (2,5)
20 Exciting (7)
21 Abstained from unhealthy
substances (7)
23 From a former empire (5) 25 Corrosive substance (4)