Cape Argus

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC

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ACROSS

1 Overnight celebrity needs photograph­er’s light during the long shot (5,2,3,3) 10 Return some fish and fruit (5) 11 Grub that eight spat out (9) 12 Lets cider befuddle vagrants (9) 13 Confessed to catching tail end of street talk (5) 14 Fiddle with piano in more cultivated setting (6) 16 Has no use for fiction to edge along (4,4) 20 Star side suffering some misfortune (8) 21 Do without, at the cost of one’s self (6) 23 Complain about tablehoppi­ng (5) 25 Bowler struck back low with the available space to work in (5,4) 27 Outfit mother character for performanc­e (9) 28 It isn’t anything polluting (5) 29 Picture’s shading a badtempere­d generation (13)

DOWN

2 Fire sales reflected small but powerful light (5) 3 Quiet disorder at the end of the street (9) 4 Bug at home and school (6) 5 Hastened, between grubby mitts, to hand it on (8) 6 True character of one of those arrangemen­ts (5) 7 Ladder sat uneasily with one leg on either side (9) 8 Individual to absorb and forego education without any revision (8) 9 and 23-down Telephone call of a dog that might kill a tree (4,4) 15 Meddle with Green Party envoy (9) 17 Device for timing chain holding up past two movements (9) 18 Outrage and bitterness surroundin­g gold (8) 19 Monster of the mob he organised (8) 22 The thing is to raise opposition (6) 23 See 9-down 24 Afternoon meal marries sides with sides (5) 26 Strange notion to drop the end of light bulb (5)

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