THE ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 South Africa for Africanists, like Tanzania free of final expat Englishmen (6)

4 Bush announced risky quick

money-making surge (8) 9 Solution concerning journalist in

my care (6)

10 A high place where I hesitate

to study after work (5,3) 12 Improve dilapidated old

English tavern (8)

13 Covering over one - initially

gripping - is sliding (6) 15 Global network with trio

(5,4,3)

18 Young men again represent

South Africa (6,6)

21 Struggle to bend light mop

around unknown 1a (6) 22 Soldier, carry the earth, pig!

(8)

24 Opening a daring ‘definite’;

nothing small about that (8) 25 Organ starts

Kleinenachtmusik in Dm, ends in semitone key (6) 26 Associates with diplomats (8) 27 Followed what electricians did

in the wall (6) Down

1 Flight attendants remove last of

feathers from propellers (8) 2 Harm? Bomb? Quite the

opposite (3,2,3)

3 Bohemian Rhapsody on Disc II,

and I luv it! (15)

5 Father explodes! (4)

6 Bone sarmie packs a punch

(7,8)

7 Dictate, otherwise opposition

take control (6)

8 Run for a long time after

marathon starts (6)

11 Cast oil all over and resigned

(7)

14 Escape with magazine (7) 16 South African pantechnicons traverse 25% of Namibia’s tropical grasslands (8) 17 Observant opener in - we’d backed his astute starts (4-4)

19 I am paying a third, and left a

buck (6)

20 Weighty business, Sir (6) 23 Kiepersol, for example, a

regular star? Never! (4)