THE ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

World class — and from our perspective, not that of the UK or USA

Multilingual — every crossword has one Afrikaans (marked A) and one isixhosa (marked X) word

Fresh & unique — compiled the previous week especially for the Mail & Guardian

Across

1 Thanks to top-class socialist

with computers (6)

5 Topless in first semester, kaalgat

thereafter (8)

9 Reveal record to be beaten (8) 10 Join mate struggling to mend

(4,2)

11 Get onto ground and conquer

all opponents (4,3,5)

13 Ring for vegetables left for

son (4)

14 Writer gives response: Not a case of nastiness, but mostly case of cheek (8)

17 Work with disorderly Nepal with

no shared space (4-4)

18 Very odd if it is 8 (4)

20 Increase influence of good argument and exciting hot craft (6,6)

23 Small type edition, covering of

soft material (6)

24 Myth for everyone, having energy and full of blood and guts (8)

25 Its press somehow continues

(8)

26 Antelope swallows drop of

quantity of medicine (6)

Down

2 Volunteer aides catch attack (4) 3 Musk loses his head after month

at hotel event (9)

4 Three in charge of training Rita,

OK? (6)

5 Lovely woman gets a political party document showing ... nothing (5,5,5)

6 Grumbled about deer chasing

dog (8)

7X Really, New York has an

intriguing leader (5) 8 There’s more to face –

cheers! (6,4)

12 Risk of Pajero side being

damaged (10)

15 Drinks Castle, hiding first

vino a long time (9) 16 Ex-husband and last lovers were very experienced (3,5) 19 Designed animal home to

have lights (6)

21A Chest was about naked

skin (5)

22 Cliff Richard initially confined in house, briefly (4)