SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 1073

Entries must reach Contest Editor SuperQuick 1073, 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 Quickly grasps she’s outside and can’t squeeze in (8)

5 Getting warmer – and more oppressive (6)

9 Earned for having arrested (6,2)

10 Gold in bulk, found in the bog (6)

12 Look angry about the fish (6)

13 Not a prodigy - and it’s not surprising (2,6)

15 Rough stuff (6,6)

18 Take a beating? (6,6)

23 In the church, I perform duties (8)

24 Give the chap time to run (6)

26 Unmoved by the interference (6)

27 What quite a lot of the actors would like? (4,4)

28 Trying to get information about the number you perform (6)

29 Claim the deep brown one, on the inside (8)

DOWN

1 A very good book. really excellent (6)

2 Claim there have been legal involvements at one point (6)

3 So long here I may be a fixture in the firm (7)

4 Hearing the hag had left the country (4)

6 She’s performing in a role that’s most unusual (7)

7 Speaks ill of the country and the Queen on board (8)

8 Confine the triers, quite wrongly, to the court (8)

11 Addled, had left (4,3)

14 Trampled on, tend to go berserk, carrying a gun (7)

16 ‘The usual’ means grated cheese (8)

17 And in class brought out skeletons from the cupboard (8)

19 Hand one over in a rage (7)

20 Don’t take to be a lack of self-control (7) 21 Jail a girl from the country (6)

22 As the best eggs never are? (6) 25 Round up everybody outside for her (4)