SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 1030
Entries must reach Contest Editor SuperQuick 1030, 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 Be critical, to a degree, of the hat (6)
5 Charged with being drunk (6)
8 It’s a bit quiet, you say (5)
9 Articles on exhibit may be, as a precautionary measure (2,4) 10 A little short of getting a majority with the figure entered (6) 11 A quick foray to capture the president (5)
14 The title’s changed to: “A Potential Killer” (8)
16 The note, dear, is upsetting to the note’s recipient (6) 18 What one got for selling the antique pearls? (5,3,3,4) 20 Didn’t destroy the water-colour (6)
22 Truly godly, the home therein (8)
25 The tree that is gone, Charlie felled (5)
27 Qualm felt at the duplicate keys (6)
28 Declare, in a company announcement (6)
29 It’s pointed north, erroneously (5)
30 Tell one about at the eleventh hour? (6)
31 Dressed as a girl, is fabulous (6)
DOWN
1 Indicates the scores (6)
2 A scratch man (4)
3 Well, I got the agent to stand a first drink (8) 4 Stay calm and remove only your jacket (4,4,5,2) 5 Article that reveals King Edward had a stand-in (6) 6 Decline to give work to the doctor (4)
7 Can’t decide about the free return (6)
12 Lively after the legal trouble, or set-back (7) 13 Light brown, to be quite honest (7)
15 The soldiers outside, love, will be French too (5) 17 Drive out from the parking at “The Continental” (5) 19 Very much want help with the writing (8)
20 Is it sinking down in it’s basket? (6)
21 Scrub out “riverlet” in it (6)
23 A very agreeable fellow (3-3)
24 Won’t converse with him (4)
26 A band in the arena (4)
SOLUTIONS TO 1029:
Across: 1 Cut a figure. 6 Stem. 10 Woollen. 11 Trailed. 12 Shake-down. 13 Eases. 14 Drake. 15 Thereupon. 17 Wide scope. 20 Lille. 21 Given. 23 The splits. 25 Antenna. 26 Iterate. 27 Ella. 28 Attachment.
Down: 1 Cowls. 2 Took a hand. 3 False reasoning. 4 Gone out. 5 Retinue. 7 Tales. 8 Made sense. 9 Farewell speech. 14 Downgrade. 16 Palpitate. 18 Outlast. 19 Evelina. 22 Vital. 24 Spent.