Double Crossword
1 Can the citizen move on to something else? (4,3,7) 9 Sweet to add fringe to tattered lap rug (5-4) 10 Get a black belt in percussion (5) 11 Maps out a salt formation (5) 12 Capital blunder in an ABC broadcast (8) 14 City used gas inside light (7) 16 Prostrate oneself before fabulous new idol (3,4) 17 Devoted to Greek god and clutching a bloom at intervals (7) 20 Grub in a green nutcase (7) 22 Stress on my running around circular system of classification (8) 23 Painting American turned into Buddhist discourse (5) 25 Middle Eastern air-conditioning requires Chinese energy (5) 26 Magma formations boost reported radiation (5,4) 27 Private aviation decked out her craft with beacons (7,7) 2 Finery of office that man was lacking in managerial position (7) 3 Some characters belt up (5) 4 Surprised expression is somehow cool. Why? (4,3) 5 Creative cooking in meals (7) 6 Zulu leader lit zebu he butchered (9) 7 Stop and walk after turning amber (7) 8 What’s designed to soften (4) 9 Daydream as acting greats screen first and last segments (8) 13 Signs that Stalin’s terror came after one and enveloped one (8) 15 Go get soil sorted out by an earth scientist (9) 18 State where a Tibetan priest cradles a bishop’s head (7) 19 Sportsperson bandaged groin, originally, and bum (7) 20 Extremely bad cuts of lamb, say (7) 21 Take out or reserve court (7) 23 Rubbish about mine retaining northern jargon (5) 24 Metal that corporation found under Zambian capital (4) ACROSS 1 Shakespeare’s “star-cross’d lovers” (5,3,6) 9 Conventions of acceptable social behaviour (9) 10 Insinuate (5) 11 Curl tightly (5) 12 Expecting a child (8) 14 Medical care (7) 16 Acrobatic apparatus (7) 17 Meatball (7) 20 Gauche, ungainly (7) 22 Food supplement refined from egg yolk (8) 23 Former name of Myanmar (5) 25 Hot pepper (5) 26 Russian Communist (9) 27 Precocious and unconventional individual (6,8) 2 Opening from the body (7) 3 Deck out, rig (5) 4 Postmortem examination (7) 5 Most profound (7) 6 British flag (5,4) 7 Encroach (7) 8 Playthings (4) 9 And so on (2,6) 13 Critical suggestions (8) 15 Annulment (9) 18 US law enforcement officer (7) 19 Showcase (7) 20 Shaped like a ring (7) 21 Advent (7) 23 Follower of an Iranian religion stressing the unity of mankind (5) 24 Line behind which a darts player must stand (4)
Bone of My Bones airs on SABC2 on Wednesdays at 9.30pm.