SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 708

Entries must reach Contest Editor SUPERQUICK 708, 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, or proof of banking details (if you would prefer an EFT) and contact number with your entry.

ACROSS 1. So we wandered in through the

back-door, from the forest (8) 5. Won’t go down and choke (4,2) 10. He’s left on the same plane as the

other, it would seem (6,9) 11. Put back into one’s keeping anew,

attack (3,4) 12. Shuffles for one kid and the rest

shuffle themselves (7) 13. He’ll show you the way to become a boss (8) 15. Put out when you actually put it into practice

(5) 18. Nowadays the chaps go inside to change (5) 20. Pass the mistake that results in caving in (8) 23. Does one’s best, but the vest is ripped right

through (7) 25. Gather a bed-room must be put back in (7) 26. Be on the mat, then immerse yourself in the

bath (3,4,3,5) 27. The sort of person one would take pains to please (6) If you can do with a smaller quantity, it’s superfluous (8)

28.

DOWN 1. Jib when it comes to cast-offs (6) 2. It gets a look in only when there’s a game (9) 3. Within a minute, the band appears and there’s

a cheer (7) 4. Stupidly, one catches a foot in it time and again

(5) 6. Prescribed for and bought for (7) 7. Food is something you’d be dead without

(5) 8. With the ghost given up, or the spirit sent

forth (8) 9. A poem from the old days, by Goldman (8) 14. Those who give it their patronage are in the

minority (4-4) 16. When the sun is out and there’s warmth, he

will draw (9) 17. It would be wise to go round by the corridors

(8) 19. Hopes to get well (7) 21. Granted that nobody had satisfied one (7) 22. Put back the street light first and one is

surprised (6) 24. Blushing at being caught, was vituperative (5) 25. Figure nothing makes apple-pie taste better (5) Across: 1 Draughts. 5 Saucer. 9 Slip into. 10 Catnap. 12 Recite. 13 Mandarin. 15 In the long run. 18 Highly amused. 23 Outright. 24 Silent. 26 Output. 27 Limerick. 28 Turned. 29 Contents. Down: 1 Desert. 2 Apiece. 3 Glisten. 4 Tote. 6 Abandon. 7 Contrary. 8 Repining. 11 Fall out. 14 Sheathe. 16 Throw out. 17 Agitator. 19 Leisure. 20 Eminent. 21 Region. 22 Stakes. 25 Lido.

SUPERQUICK 707 Winners: R100 E Maré R50: V Mallett, K Theron, V Malherbe