SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 691

Entries must reach Contest Editor SUPERQUICK 691, 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. 3. Night-attire (10) 8. The punter’s cap (6) 9. Asterisks don’t need the

anyhow, but this does! (4) 10. Did he get a very good

economics? (10) 11. Turn down the swim (3) 13. Without writhing round (4) 14. Ignore the girl with the weapon (7) 15. It may make one itch to be foolhardy (4) 17. Be curious when the peace-offering gets no

admission (5) 20. Shot across and helped with the gardening (5) 22. On the one hand, inclined to be interested (4) 24. Later altered one figure in the writing (7) 25. Tripe put on a table (4) 27. Miss the point (3) 28. Game the tired dog can amuse itself with? (6-4) 29. Jumped up girl! (4) 30. Oddly rough? (6) 31. “Leaving,” as the foreigner said, “one section

of the store” (10)

skies,

first in DOWN 1. Calming down when the date is changed over

(8) 2. Doing one’s best to remove the four central

pearls (6) 3. Wave from a smasher! (7) 4. Figure you’ll enjoy the article (5) 5. The latest model (4) 6. Book written by a tough footballer? (4-4) 7. Imagined the dope’s somehow to be added

to the drink (8) 12. Splash from the jug (4) 14. Crack off with a short iron shot (4) 16. A time back, caught a cold, in Israel (4) 17. Paper darts folded and put inside (8) 18 Do better than the other fan-dancers? (8) 19. The dogs you take with you on holiday (4) 21. Rang the praises of, as one once had rung? (8) 23. Removed from the newspaper and left

hurriedly? (4,3) 25. Teased for having let loose the bird to be caged

(6) 26. Apart from the sea-swimming I had gone in for

(5) 28. Attend and come out on top against (4) Across: 1 Gun dog. 5 Damsel. 8 Range. 9 Verona. 10 Flagon. 11 Clove. 14 Primrose. 16 Trains. 18 Acquisitiveness. 20 Bellow. 22 Abnormal. 25 Large. 27 Annual. 28 Take in. 29 Exact. 30 Sonnet. 31 Arrest. Down: 1 Give up. 2 Norm. 3 Gracious. 4 Innocents abroad. 5 Defeat. 6 Sage. 7 Liners. 12 Ampulla. 13 Manners. 15 Ruche. 17 Nesta. 19 Vendetta. 20 Broads. 21 Wallet. 23 Linnet. 24 Anon. 26 Gene.

SUPERQUICK 690 Winners: R100 B Schutte R50: A Oldroyd, G Lester, M Soltynski