CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD
NO .783
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.783, 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.782 is Colette Mannion, Ballyhide, Co. Carlow.
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across 8 Writer returned – he worried first relative (6)
9 Share a pound, being sensible (8)
10 Pledge ice, dated another way (8)
11 Snatch sailor next to Channel (6)
12 Dodgy psychology about nomad (5)
13 Cow is educated outside, intelligent (4)
14 European staff (4)
16 A cup seen to shrivel (7)
18 Hums bit about an element (7)
20 Vermin I am returning to church (4)
21 Gather in more apples (4)
22 Better edges possess colour (5)
25 Oppose article (6)
27 Altering form and shape (8)
28 Plot transportation of canes to city (8)
29 Guernsey’s first composer shows grit (6)
Down
1 Get upset about Lee’s wrong ingredient (6)
2 Use lighter continuously, ruining Mike’s nacho (5-5)
3 We sat around – that’s hard work (5)
4 Poison involved in scare (7)
5 Planned set – tragic performance (9)
6 Spy’s pledge (4)
7 Knight getting clean away a great deal (8)
14 Mania prone to upset dog (10)
15 Drink to expression, but not for long (5-4)
17 Follow support for jam (8)
19 Limit changed into wording (7)
23 Everything inside damp container (6)
24 Calls for some jewellery (5)
26 One’s worked for a long time (4)
QUICK CLUES
Across
8 Male relative (6)
9 Sane (8)
10 Devote (8)
11 Kidnap (6)
12 Nomadic person (5)
13 Sagacious (4)
14 Post (4)
16 Waste away (7)
18 Metallic element (7)
20 Rodents (4)
21 Gather (4)
22 Colour (5)
25 Item (6)
27 Geometric
shape (8)
28 Storyline (8)
29 Shingle (6)
Down
1 Salad plant (6)
2 Light up continuously (5-5)
3 Perspire (5)
4 Poisonous
element (7)
5 Calculated (9)
6 Friendship (4)
7 Arthurian knight (8)
14 Breed of dog (10)
15 Of brief duration (5-4)
17 Traffic queue (8)
19 Title (7)
23 Folding case (6)
24 Hoops (5)
26 Time periods (4)