SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 886
Entries must reach Contest Editor SuperQuick 886, 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 Says “A film star in one’s youth” (5,4) 6 Accommodation for the doctor, with a telephone (5)
9 Left out the broken marble: yellow (5) 10 Gag writer who ended up in jail? (9) 11 Grim as you shouldn’t be allowing yourself to be? (10)
12 Drove back from the grocer’s (4)
14 Bets I myself will be in early (7)
15 Can’t it hold the liquid put in it? (7)
17 The alignments of people with others in BR? (7)
19 Different ways to get revolutionary reds out (7)
20 It’s most important to bend (4)
22 Does it help one to get hold of a nice picture postcard? (4,6)
25 Asking what “exigent” means (9)
26 Pull the man and woman back (5) 27 Blazing again when it’s not Thatcher who’s had a set-back (5)
28 They bother to renovate Sarah’s and Elizabeth’s (9)
DOWN
1 Bat man (5)
2 A number I scolded but let off (9)
3 Later I’d given first aid to people in a train accident (10)
4 Agrees the case was cracked about a month back (7)
5 As it turned out, the back room was dirty (7) 6 Compel to earn (4)
7 Afraid I would get on to the man (5) 8 Disembark with foreign currency and guides (9)
13 Also upstairs, about to get theatrical equipment (10)
14 Not the looker-on who had the chair next to you? (9)
16 Does the baker sell it by weight? (5,4) 18 To say nothing about the victory is beastly (7)
19 Just the same, put a bet on for the old lady (7)
21 That’s me in California looking at home on the sands (5)
23 Goes round to get the music (5)
24 Said it isn’t a complication (4)
SOLUTIONS TO 885: Across: 1 Beaune. 4 Articles. 10 Cologne. 11 Shatter. 12 Shop. 13 Appreciate. 16 Owning. 17 Disrupt. 20 Remains. 21 Strove. 24 Distraught. 25 Drop. 27 Riviera. 29 Corsage. 30 Sinister. 31 Intent.
Down: 1 Buckshot. 2 All-rounders. 3 Nags. 5 Restrain. 6 Inaccurate. 7 Lot. 8 Served. 9 Keeps. 14 Appropriate. 15 Unfairness. 18 Insulate. 19 Helpmeet. 22 Adores. 23 Shock. 26 Grin. 28 Van.