CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD NO.910

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.910, 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.909 is Brendan Browne, Kilrush, Co. Clare.

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 A number enjoy something (5) 4 This writer threw chains around medium machine (9)

9 Pass gun on dish (9)

10 Sulked on a motorbike (5)

11 Play on words – his new discipline (6)

12 Philosopher boxes like this first (8) 14 Doctor moved fast with fellow legal writer (9)

15 New range starts in particular material (5)

17 Judge gets left exposed (5) 19 Located an alternative that’s unreliable (9)

22 Note a French escape, without large armed conflict (8)

24 Rummage around for a hunter of rabbits (6)

26 Last of handymen smashed thin bit (5)

27 Manage after ordering steel spyglass (9)

28 Woman gets clean away with her first barrage (9)

29 Pretty timid after I had returned (5)

Down

1 Odd pace – cooked lobster for one (7)

2 Flavouring for girl during storm (9)

3 The leader managed to be seated in conveyance (7)

4 Demon keen to embrace hermit (4)

5 Prisoner established to be perplexed (10)

6 Almost revere a trainee officer (7) 7 Contribution to fashionable place (5)

8 President’s event (7) 13 Understanding space? Pitiful (10) 16 Ill-famed old trio involved in common sense (9)

17 Flower, a big one, wild (7)

18 Hank is worried about king being a god (7)

20 Got up with a vinaigrette, say (7) 21 A great deal to sample, including additive, is a matter of chance (7) 23 Train in January with stealthy fighter (5)

25 Food is hardly fast, by the sound of it (4)