CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Slim monarch starts to consider any problem, wearing this? (8,3) 9. Man confines stupid moron in compound (7) 10. RA studies this bloke holding numbers and ruler (7) 11. Remains after burning tree (3) 12. Bird comes in to settle in fen, for example (7) 13. Broadcast excludes Mozart’s original passage (7) 14. Container represented by serial number initially (3) 15. Rave about former tax cut (5) 17. Patient, second one in bed, taking a turn (5) 18. Principle of the custom-ised integrated circuit (5) 20. Steer front of boat in lake (5) 22. Coat available in Frank furt (3) 24. Some French catching big game can’t stand (7) 25. Covered redhead in ridiculous undies (7) 26. Piece of turf’s very damp on top (3) 27. Jail’s modern entrance (7) 28. Plans 10 days in southern borders (7) 29. Playing bagatelle with EU’s list of teams (6,5)

Down

1. Maybe how Rocky originally won the title? He didn’t do this! (5,2,3,5) 2. I get furious about one brief period long ago (4,3) 3. What masseurs do, working naked (5) 4. Cabaret near Bath entertaining 150 (9) 5. Try to obtain painting on seafront (7) 6. How to make some perry for media gathering? (5,10) 7. Tea allowed in Swiss Cottage (6) 8. Religious writer’s staff cut (6) 16. Tense French author provides bride’s clothing etc. (9) 18. Racket interrupts English finale (6) 19. Caught a serf nearly lifting edible tuber (7) 21. Bath with 11 still the wrong way up (7) 23. Impetuous detective cutting vegetable (6) 25. Dope I spot touring island (5)

ALL FALL DOWN. Pedestrians pass a man who has fallen over, unable to walk, near Park Station.

CLEANING UP. A man washes a bus on a street corner in Braamfontein.

HOSE-DOWN. A man cleans the pavement outside a house in Parktown.

WALL ART. Pedestrians in Braamfontein pass some colourful graffiti.

axi depot in the south of Johannesburg.