CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD NO.916
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.916, 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.915 is Susan Meehan, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Chair back makes a wet sound (5)
4 Respite concerning assignment (9)
9 Axe with strings attached – it doesn’t exist (3,6) 10 More almonds around field (5)
11 Register for a very large drink (6)
12 Caught in which way mine turned into an exotic dish (4,4)
14 Working in arcade has direction and routine (4,5)
15 Training baboon to do without man (5)
17 Copper maybe getting some food with the leader (5)
19 Sort meal out with medium commotion (9)
22 Shouts about men distributing what’s left (8)
24 Graduate and sailor rock (6)
26 Instruct every team leader to go first (5)
27 Returning no card to Scot – that’s harsh (9)
28 Orders yet unsettled for warship (9)
29 Occasion, we hear, for some flavouring (5)
Down
1 Small flan with hesitation, then prawn cocktail? (7)
2 Criminal gets table, having to use crane (9)
3 Messy duels to get organised (7)
4 Speed making box lose top (4)
5 Disease unfortunately harms fellow, always (5,5)
6 Rest managed to get married and scattered (7)
7 Picture one game differently (5)
8 Milan struggled to follow negative official (7)
13 With energy, like Popeye? (10)
16 Actually deployed linearity (2,7)
17 Justified ceremony in sea (7)
18 Hide tale about that woman (7)
20 Each recreation around
Dover, say (7)
21 Meet in a construction
for performance (7)
23 Chap holds zero spades,
and grumbles (5)
25 Left atmosphere in den (4)
QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Chair’s back panel (5)
4 Cancellation (9)
9 Musical miming (3,6)
10 Kingdom (5)
11 Threefold (6)
12 Chinese dish (4,4)
14 Precipitationsummoning ritual (4,5)
15 Exercise (5)
17 Type of element (5)
19 Whirlpool (9)
22 Leftovers (8) 24 Type of rock (6)
26 Educate (5)
27 Very strict (9)
28 Type of battleship (9)
29 Herb (5)
Down
1 First course (7)
2 Thief (9)
3 Untidy (7)
4 Speed (4)
5 Malaria (5,5)
6 Scattered (7)
7 Visual representation (5)
8 Titular (7)
13 In a lively manner (10)
16 As a matter
of fact (2,7)
17 Deserved (7)
18 Animal hide (7)
20 Coastal town (7)
21 Afternoon
performance (7)
23 Complains (5)
25 Burrow (4)