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.840, 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.839 is Siobhan McQuillan, Rockcorry, Co. Monaghan.

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

9 Not asleep at a funeral (5)

10 Cut a slithery arrangement (9)

11 Programme showing medic maraud around (9)

12 Consider light on king (5)

13 Joke to hesitate, not having her authority (6)

14 Champion card user in a muddle (8)

16 Part payment rated badly at home (5-2)

18 Ten changes by man of guts (7)

20 Son, doubly depressed, in decline (8)

22 American reptile started on flower (6)

25 Consumed by college, say (5)

26 Fruit that can be blown (9)

28 Sadly ruins cane cover (9)

29 Cast worth new translation (5)

Down

1 I would follow mother, being domestic (4)

2 Predator following a large prisoner (6)

3 Time limit for lifeless sentence (8)

4 Competitive fellow has edge, initially (5)

5 Curiously, said deadly sin was different (9)

6 Unchanged, the way things stand (2,2,2)

7 End lyric about shape (8)

8 Supports kisses with couple (4,6)

13 Past is reviewed by lake shop (10)

15 Refuting news about some jewellery outside (9)

17 Pass a toy out, showing abandonment of belief (8)

19 Treat by altering European information (8)

21 Money in demand in arsenal (6)

23 Helpers worry republican succeeded (6)

24 More healthy, taking top off tree (5)

27 Negative response returned about wife – that’s a bore (4)

QUICK CLUES Across

9 Conscious (5)

10 Coiffure (9)

11 Type of TV programme (9)

12 Cogitate (5)

13 Expert (6)

14 Campaigner (8)

16 Part exchange (5-2)

18 Relating to the intestines (7)

20 Economic decline (8)

22 Spring flower (6)

25 Devoured (5)

26 Type of fruit (9)

28 Indemnity (9)

29 Chuck (5)

Down

1 Servant (4)

2 Bird of prey (6)

3 Ultimatum (8)

4 Inexpensive (5)

5 Differed in opinion (9)

6 In the existing circumstances (2,2,2)

7 Geometric figure (8)

8 Orthopaedic supports (4,6)

13 Cake shop (10)

15 Replying (9)

17 Religious renunciation (8)

19 Unit of information (8)

21 Currency units (6)

23 Paid helpers (6)

24 Type of willow (5)

27 Gape (4)