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 Received Order of the British Empire and decided at last to retire (2,2,3)

5 Laugh at routine task hiding till

regularly (7)

9X Eye one half like thus (5) 10 They count resistance as some

‘therm’ or other (9) 11 Cinderella was easy? (6,4) 12 Usual case of paratrooper

capturing area (3)

14 An Aussie bug I dug up in an

African country (6,6) 18 Smoothing watercourse with

padding (12)

21 Find the cost of freedom when

dorm characters disappear (3) 22 Hollywood can let snow melt

(10)

25 A member of the provincial

legislature providing ire about

sound equipment (9)

26 One politician extremely lazy

and mean (5)

27 Made certain nudes ... er ...

show off (7)

28 Feel terrible bile day before (7)

Down

1 Problem of yearning after golf

every now and again (6) 2 Attempt speaking by means of

irrelevancies (6)

3 Dog labours awfully with glucose

in its veins (5,5)

4 Medic loves quiet slump (5) 5 Revisit what? (4,5)

6 Double curve moulding found in

Scrooge emblem (4)

7 Intrude on rest cure? I don’t

know (8)

8 Cover nervous hens before top

rooster pair returns (8) 13 Cape Town summit show

endlessly chilly (6,4) 15 Fill in due to arrangement

being set aside (9) 16 Since recently, when ‘old’ felt a misrepresentation (2,2,4)

17 Anticipates publicity and pets me all over the place (3-5)

19A Lift well-constructed

pipe onto little hill (6) 20 Inner substance shakes

Zen voice of “Why me?” (6) 23 Brush bush (5)

24 Row with heartless cat (4)