THE ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 Almost every bar closes early between Grahamstown and the coast (6)

4 Disregard allure,

chasing criminal (8) 9 Resurrect last relatives’

ribs (6)

10 Lover hooks up with

officer for dance (8) 12 Break in and travel

around (8) 13 Love-making by one’s male is gender discrimination (6) 15 Times are returning with small beginning (4)

16 No 13a for these

labourers (10) 19 Hopefully South Africa has genuinely lost energy accidentally (10)

20 Shuffle arteries inside

insect (4)

23 Full of hysterical laughter, until the Hawks’ investigation

starts (6) 25 Assessed again and

commented (8) 27 Ndebele’s press Oxalis per-caprae, collecting coffee (8) 28 Charm created from princess’s body part (6)

29 City died, at least about making a stand (8)

30 Age revised with each new expanse of water (6)

Down

1 Sitting on a saint, free to take initial expostulations! (7) 2 Depressed? Prepare for

luxury travel (4,5) 3 The essence is - eat

and run around (6) 5 Just one, but ... (4)

6 ... hardened journo is

following fireworks (8) 7 Men died aboard

sunken ship (5)

8 Jot mime play for my

gabba (7)

11 Abandons certain colours (7) 14 Quashed under southern expert (7) 17 Sport and Poker Centre on decline

in city (9)

18 Bereft of his wife, Slovo became

hard (8)

19 Hassle school - very quietly - after

the French are taken in (7) 21 Stomach article about ‘Black Bubble’

(7)

22 American city gall is easily altered

(6)

24 Increased little boy’s support for

undisciplined pup (5)

26 When I extracted heart, a huge

space appeared (4)