THE ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 Yes, we’ll end a mafioso

capturing this town (10) 6 Pathetically a lame man starts to

give a hand (4)

9 Fired, I take gun and I put on

suit (10)

10 Fasten on to small male (4) 12 Somehow the toss manages

hearing aids (12)

15 Crazily the same as mother

and daughter (4,3)

16 Single creditor offers little (7) 17 Dire Straits are musicians (7) 19 Yuppie is down to finish? Quite

the opposite (7)

20 Hannes is often lost in this

city (12)

23 Trick to fitting ring into sheet

(4)

24 Fare to banter about in task at

Parliament (6,4)

25 Her likes even include deer (4) 26 Ouma has a herb and a fruit

(10) Down

1 Drink up beers (4)

2 Corrodes chair from top to

bottom (4)

3 Organised gigs I left in, time

permitting (12)

4 “No thank you, Tswane

leadership!” journo wrote (7) 5 Italian capital elevates you and me to follow love and be passionate (7)

7 Those from Oz and New Zealand are against poor half-caste Dane (10)

8 Landdros and wise men sound

very direct (10)

11 Account points to dossier criminally being augmented (12)

13 Ja, a slappie excites a country

bumpkin (10)

14 Head off request to eat in Reserve, pointing to drawing pad (10)

18 The Stones asked for it so the woman left Ruby Tuesday initially to come up with hidden drug (7)

19 I nab rum suspect from Central

Italy (7)

21 Cultivate up to ... (4)

22 ... portico, growing oats (4)