CROSSWORD 9314 BY ARAHODEN

Check out our bumper crossword by our mystery compiler Arahoden. As usual, you can expect some Cavan twists. Print it out, complete it and enter our competition to win lunch for two in the Cavan Crystal Hotel, not to mention a coveted Anglo-Celt pen (details below).

Across

1. Short imperial measure of dry land in Killykeen (4,6)

6. Young goats joshes in America (4)

8. Second-hand vehicle (4-3)

9. Neat and tidy military attendant (7)

11. Land measure 16.5 feet (5)

13. Not very difficult (4-5)

14. Paras hovered around Templeport Electoral District (6,6)

17. Metal alloy with swampy grass band in Bunnoe (5,3,4)

18. The right side of a ship (9)

19. Killinkere’s saying to hide a written composition (5)

22. Single masted vessel for a feline (7)

23. UAE leaves honourable for a hill in Belturbet (7)

25. Signal of approval starts over Killeshandra any year (4)

26. Taylor pine changed location on Lough Sheelin (5,5)

Down

2. Follows 'Long Time' by Dermot Healy (2,3)

3. "And to rise in the world he carried a ___" Finnegan's Wake (3)

4. Mute bird on Gowna Lake (4)

5. Henry Reed constructs Parish Church in Butlersbridge (9)

6. Net custodian's limbs in Bawnboy (7,4)

7. Old brothers’ school in Cavan (2,2,5)

10. Users Cora organised for loud party goers (9)

12. Legal rooms precede shoreline recess in Lough Sheelin (8,3)

15. English pitch in Butlersbridge (5,4)

16. Former New York Bainisteoir from Bailieborough (4,5)

20. Cooks protective garment (5)

21. Precedes O'Moore in Belturbet Park (4)

24. Informal short brother (3)

To enter: Print out the crossword, complete it and post your entry to The Anglo-Celt, Crossword Competition, Kilmore Business Park, Dublin Road, Cavan, to be in with a chance of winning one of our coveted Anglo-Celt pens and for the glory, of course.

There's also a two-course lunch for the Atrium Bar in the Cavan Crystal Hotel up for grabs!

Please remember to put the volume number of your entry on the outside of your submission.

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