SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 1060

Entries must reach Contest Editor SuperQuick 1060, Top of the Times PO Box 11, Cape Town 8000 or e-mail tott@inl.co.za by midday on Wednesday. The first correct entry drawn wins R100, the next three R50 each. Winners are announced next week.

NOTE: Please include your postal address and contact number with your entry.

ACROSS SCRATCH PATCH

1 And the officer is about to give an order (7)

5 What the listener in the house heard go off? (7)

9 The children are ready and I’m taking them back (5)

10 Doing something wrong in being undressed? (3,2,4)

11 No, I poured it from a container. It’s delicious (6)

12 Agrees scent’s been sprayed on the inside (8)

14 Go back home with Nash (5)

15 Practised doing the standing-on-end hairstyle? (7,2)

18 Getting at us to change the scales of pay, it does penetrate (9) 20 The smallest is half a mile away (5)

22 As a rule, at ‘The King’s’ having cold food (8)

24 Does the whole bottle go into the pastry? (6)

26 The nature of the letter (9)

27 Ridicules, we’re told, the dress (5)

28 With artifice, the little key is concealed inside (7)

29 Long to fill, for each, a jug (7)

DOWN

1 Souvenirs that seem, to men, odd (9)

2 Left unfinished at the patisserie, one observed (7)

3 Does he have, perhaps, tea in bars? (9)

4 The black one turned the key to go in (4) 5 Very angry due to the great inflation? (3,2,5)

6 At the word ‘collars,’ barks audibly (5)

7 Nigel’s worried now about having got into a row (7)

8 Comes upon back east, in spring (5)

13 Having gone too far with the description ‘Yesterday’s man’ (1,3,4,2) 16 Henry took the plane out in the dusk (4-5)

17 How you pack your case and get ready to go (3,2,4)

19 Farming while one still has one’s youth? (7)

21 Packing a gun, to his terrible sorrow (7)

22 Birds in the hayfields (5)

23 It’s S-Scottish for ‘long,’ in jargon (5)

25 Cover from the outbreak of war to the start of peace (4)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE 1059

Across: 1 Scarlett O’Hara. 8 Panacea. 9 Bangles. 11 Ideals. 13 Prussian. 15 Titan. 16 Nearing. 18 Surreal. 19 Alfie. 21 Prattled. 23 Report. 25 Eugenia.

26 Open day. 28 Learned friend.

Down: 2 Convent. 3 Roc. 4 Edam. 5 Tabernacle. 6 Hands. 7 Rolling. 8 Printer’s pie. 10 Single entry. 12 Liner. 14 Inveterate. 17 Irate. 18 Spangle. 20 Flodden. 22 Tuner. 24 Toff. 27 Eli.