SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 1065

Entries must reach Contest Editor SuperQuick 1065, 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

1 What made the reformed drunk feel so well? (5,5)

6 Say nothing when the coat with the pound in it is returned (4) 10 Place one, with astute manoeuvring, on the outside (7) 11 Stagger, holding the right foot (7)

12 Join with, to get back on the train going out east (9)

13 She went off the day after with Arnold (5)

14 Concerned with, for a spell (5)

15 Puts into practice in one’s studies (9)

17 The wicked ladies cast off the veils dancing (3-6)

20 Before the fellow goes in to meet the Queen, you conclude (5) 21 Creature the little black girl is carrying (5)

23 Bean that’s a standard accompaniment to eel stew (9)

25 He helps free the tot the wild bear captured (7)

26 Having an extreme thirst, should get on to the doctor (7) 27 Objects when it closes (4)

28 A capital protection in wet weather (10)

DOWN

1 It’s up to the head to nominate the composer (5)

2 Ill-at-ease when away (3,2,4)

3 To phone here from outer space collect would be very expensive! (6,3,5) 4 The girl takes time out, as usual (7)

5 Once the meter’s fixed, it’s great (7)

7 Following up, it’s real, and about time (5)

8 It flies the Germans out and back again (9)

9 A word for a group of state-controlled farms? (10,4)

14 Link, as with ‘coast’ I link ‘sea’ (9)

16 What you see the loft suffused in? (4,5)

18 Operating, which is nice for a change (2,5)

19 Having the boys stand outside the prison is disgraceful (7) 22 By the sound of it, raised the money (5)

24 He’s great not to slack up, you say (5