Cape Argus

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Lights with light-hearted sections (6)

5 Belter produced three time as many (6)

10 Sin to confuse footballer with bowler’s delivery (9) 11 Step up some debris eradicatio­n (5)

12 Call of a predator in the northern forest (5)

13 Put down object and miss internal digestive disorder (9)

14 Fitting the middle-sized in knitted angora fabric (7) 16 Mean intelligen­ce (7) 18 Shirt that is some kind of neckwear (3)

19 Actual cadet of sorts (2,5) 21 Made mess without one in charge of the tremors (7) 23 Most difficult to shorten it terribly (9)

26 Awoken, yawning, across country (5) 27 Unlimited mooning after changing bulb (5)

28 Cut across and bury religious group (9)

29 Order faster attack (6) 30 Mid-Atlantic clergyman in the Peruvian mountains (6)

DOWN

2 Enduring the odd liar with pain (7)

3 Brother, one has to have a taste of tea to be British (9) 4 Smoothly proceed to show houseguest inside (5) 5 Limits access to holster when collaring nondrinker (9)

6 Terrorist admitted mistake (5)

7 Wasted shot in lion country (7)

8 As new prerequisi­te for growing sweet? (4,9)

9 Darts can damage large collection­s of handiwork (4,3,6)

15 Simultaneo­usly tuned to matinee (2,3,4)

17 Brush off broken reed as a little hairy (9)

20 Blooming shopkeeper held left or right leaders in his hand (7)

22 Nelson led a party after fellow (7)

24 Mercenary got jump start aboard Columbus’ ship (5)

25 White trash kept aquarium fish (5)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Lodging house (6) 5 Heavily ornamental architectu­ral style (6) 10 Assistant, follower (9) 11 Bravery, gameness (5) 12 Colonic irrigation (5) 13 Newly coined word or phrase (9)

14 Samson’s betrayer (7) 16 Shell shape (7)

18 Donkey (3)

19 American marsupial (7) 21 Ultimate consumer (3,4) 23 Perfumed oil (9) 26 System of religious belief (5)

27 Artificial fibre used in stockings (5)

28 Gad about (9)

29 Device used to secure a boat (6)

30 Cope (6)

DOWN

2 Porridge (7)

3 Squid’s appendages (9) 4 Acquire knowledge (5) 5 Of the nose, turned up (9) 6 Large river in tropical Africa (5)

7 Fruit drink (7)

8 Secretly listening to a conversati­on (13) 9 Individual with both male and female characteri­stics (13)

15 Beef patty on a bread roll (9)

17 Drug dependence (9) 20 Small bird eaten as a delicacy in France (7) 22 Affair, business (slang) (7)

24 Intuitive guess (5) 25 Religion of Mohammed (5)

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