CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD NO.921
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.921, 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.920 is Danny McLoughlin, Bray, Co. Wicklow.
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
8 Confused plotter wasted time getting fuel (6)
9 Winter nettles surrounding web (8)
10 Made progress,
being up-to-date (8)
11 English gale confused
small birds (6)
12 In ditch, yak is irritable (5)
13 Top wager – second coming in (4) 14 Section within compartment (4)
16 Jealous character to
return greeting (7)
18 Dolly is fixed in a sturdy way (7)
20 Chief executive
sobs uncontrollably (4)
21 Avaricious editor lost colour (4)
22 Get up with new hair dye (5)
25 Came in to reform building (6)
27 Mixed in tonic, energy comes
from stimulant (8)
28 Limits one copper to
medium pepper (8)
29 Catch joke, starting
in container (6)
Down
1 Tried composition, getting key to change again (2-4)
2 Managing the bar, not quite so eager (10)
3 Support gets student gloomy (5) 4 Cheat to get a crab (7)
5 Notice a military command (9) 6 Container includes rook and crow (4)
7 Clever, seeing key Republican in the middle of breakfast (8)
14 Lowbrow man, that is,
isn’t running in (10)
15 Blatancy of prisoner
in the country (9)
17 Very hot, right inside current (8)
19 Affectionate term
for Tiddles, say (3,4)
23 Resign unexpectedly
as a musician (6)
24 Last of retailers manage range (5) 26 Simple point, say, to change (4)
QUICK CLUES
Across
8 Type of fuel (6)
9 World Wide Web (8) 10 Modern (8)
11 Birds of prey (6)
12 Having an
irritation (5)
13 Supreme (4)
14 Component (4)
16 Shakespeare
play (7)
18 In a firm way (7) 20 Leader (4)
21 Nondescript (4) 22 Wash out (5)
25 Film theatre (6)
27 Tobacco
constituent (8)
28 Salad plant (8)
29 Small basket (6) Down
1 Revise again (2-4) 2 Panting (10)
3 Darkest colour (5) 4 Violinist (7)
5 Notice (9)
6 Boast (4)
7 Intellectual (8)
14 Lowbrow (10)
15 Obviousness (9) 17 Sweltering (8)
19 Term of
endearment (3,4) 23 Vocalist (6)
24 Extent (5)
26 Facile (4)