SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 885

SuperQuick 885, Entries must reach Contest Editor 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 Wine the dog likes the sound of (6)

4 The plural! (8)

10 Having a pass, has gone off to somewhere in Germany (7)

11 Shut up and treat badly, to crush (7)

12 Tell the police you are the buyer (4) 13 Understand there’s a spread, but the entry price is terrible (10)

16 Having not paid about a quarter (6) 17 Upset the stupid Rocky with a right to the heart (7)

20 Stays with the body (7)

21 To keep a few in store, re-ordered and did one’s best (6)

24 Mad for a drink and first to go in (10) 25 Give up when there’s a decline (4) 27 One is surrounded by water: a popular area with holiday-makers (7)

29 Heavens! An authority on flowers! (7) 30 Left, which is ominous (8)

31 Very interested in the shelter (6)

DOWN

1 They money’s stolen and the ammunition, too (8)

2 They’re versatile and, on the whole, game (3-8)

3 Goes on the horses (4) 5 Stop for a break and water (8)

6 I can involve the clergyman? That would be wrong (10)

7 Many a site (3)

8 Did, when one was in the forces (6) 9 Remains fresh, one observes (5)

14 But it’s not a suitable way to acquire things! (11)

15 Darkness? (10)

18 To keep away from the sun, I go out at night (8)

19 Make it easier to find a wife (8)

22 Loves holding up with a water pistol (6) 23 Hair, or what will make it curl! (5)

26 Be pleased to see, right in the trap (4) 28 “The vehicle,” I put in, “is useless” (3)