THE ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 Embrace husband, then excitedly make sale for musician (4,8)

9 Returning spies retain drill for

oxygenated exercise (7) 10 Irish family croon “No

Trouble” (7)

11 So, long for honourable free

pass (7)

12 Sail had flipped over flowers

(7)

13 Direction and ways of dorks

(5)

14 Absent English student has

stitch in this place (9) 16 Indolent girl turns to serve

diners (4,5)

19 Let’s revolutionise a leading

innovative company (5) 21 Drunken Rag, for example, is

more depressed (7) 23 Curriculums come back with

‘10’ - empty approval (7) 24 Particularly lend toy to be

distributed (7)

25 Proceeds to gun the engine in

new broadcast (7)

26 Wound allowed excitement

over illness (7,5) Down

1 Keep mooring (7)

2 Turn to airline to book one’s

place (7)

3 Fish for Scottish-Afrikaans

friends? (9)

4 Aloof following small rebuke

(5)

5 Understand the way of

expertise (4-3)

6 Good - take breather and lie

about (7)

7 Putting aside difference of

sailing in a storm (13) 8 Angry assessor changed character - at last - when questioned (5-8)

15 Font used by hospitals,

backfires (4,5)

17 Got in unknowns in charge

of cell (7)

18 “Hide the German!” goes the

gossip (7)

19 Late - about six - on first

visit to city (3,4)

20 Tool for single critic (7) 22 Frost spoke about poetic

resonance (5)