THE ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 Enterprising stir loses 11 to

disease (11)

7 Touch awful switch (3)

9 More bloody scarce by midMarch (5)

10 Stumbling, Sir? Lean on an

Asian (3,6)

11 Picked up A and drove her

around (9) 12 Pretentiousness comes hot

on the heels of large dens (5) 13 Hold back in greeting dash

(7)

15 Regularly include sick (4) 18 Live in the morning sunlight

(4)

20 Two doctors come into contact with a South African city (7)

23 Dance with a Lieutenant, followed by introduction to Zuma (5)

24 Drain of the tardy hedonism

making a comeback (9)

26 I am surrounded by finest food at first, leading to the most messy (9)

27 Boy, the French produce

scoop! (5)

28 The old Far Side amusement,

all the same (3)

29 Flier for Boer-goat Mother to

stick (11) Down

1 Scattered dross and oil from

collapsing column (8) 2 Squealing loose rocks about

both sides of Herolds Bay (8) 3 Poverty, so daughter leaves

mother (5)

4 Do stint at present (7)

5 Party finds bone on excavation

expedition (7)

6 Only one lost in minor attack

(5,4)

7 Buck comes up with doublebluff (3-3)

8 Prohibition is hard for outlaw

(6)

14 Worker left ox with top bidder

— the devil (9)

16 Predator can hurt with a rude

ruffle (8)

17 Ordinary vision of simple

study (5,3)

19 Ee — it’s Wednesday! (7) 20 Processed ham trapped that

place (7)

21 Understand extremes of

greenery, like a thin shoot (6) 22 Loud large relation in parade

(6)

25 Misrepresentation I held of

city (5)