Cape Argus

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Refrain from cocktail hours after cracking head (6) 4 Single man in Burmese capital developing cholera (8)

10 Distress signals complete a string of notes (9)

11 Migrant turned on bananas (5)

12 Wear medals inside when given weapons (5)

13 Magic symbol obscured agent in baby carriage (9) 14 Embarrasse­d when a graduate lost hair (7)

16 Little education is no setback for inventor (6) 19 Green building in Peru (6) 21 Are buffeted and blasted by a range of sounds (7) 25 Sweet and strong drink with frozen dessert (9) 26 Tough question in prose form (5)

28 Sound like a bird to sound economical (5) 29 Informed kin he won’t break down (2,3,4)

30 Not a sign of one who witnesses signatures (8) 31 Servant, in return, interrupte­d repast (6)

DOWN

1 Tooth raised tin of brandy (6)

2 Platform headed off execration (5)

3 Spied us making up appealing features (7) 5 Roughly between one and eighteen holes (6)

6 Difficult to accept half an answer in the parliament­ary record (7)

7 Wine company followed up lab’s rum results (9)

8 First principle is to put some money into the smallest of the litter (8) 9 Small item showing how to dock domestic animal (7) 15 In response to demands for a cow shelter on the expedition (2,7)

17 Nip a club served by a server of nips in a club? (8) 18 Look hard at crop of letters in the paper (7) 20 Flourish spearhead among the gentlemanl­y (7) 22 Best presume worse outcome (7)

23 Cleric took drip inside to have tea (6)

24 Tool for raw beginner comes wrapped in absorbent material (6) 27 Desert is in a flurry (5)

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