SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 873

Entries must reach Contest Editor SUPERQUICK 873, 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 Pride? (5-8)

8 Help deceive a man (7)

9 Managers of the greengrocer’s? (7)

11 Why shift it back in? (6)

13 The chief guide (8)

15 He has the egg and the wren is worried (5)

16 It’s not as ponderous as “a large open boat” (7) 18 Go ahead and creep off before the boss returns (7) 19 An item of furniture from the catalogue (5)

21 Rex and I tore the outside to pieces (8)

23 They fly with the lady on Sunday (6)

25 The child has near pulled through before dawn (7) 26 Delighted, daily, by the sea (7)

28 Shamrocks? (4,9)

DOWN

2 Are running in then, in bunch, to cheer (7)

3 It’s a note, only the bottom is torn off (3)

4 The girl gets a point to make it quits (4)

5 A standing charge (7,3)

6 No chance there will be a fifty per cent reduction for now (5) 7 He chooses jellied eel, cold, and something that’s rather high (7) 8 Win when it’s a matter of ease of removal? (4,3,4)

10 So squashed and n straits (4,7)

12 Grieve when one goes off to the border (5)

14 Fly, though unhappy, with courage (10)

17 Name the bird, a male the mother deserted (5)

18 It is, dear one, a flower (7)

20 Appear to be right about the mistake (7)

22 In the upshot, feel sorry about the scamp (5)

24 Long to get at someone who’s swindled you? (4)

27 The whole, or almost the whole, of autumn (3)