Cape Argus

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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Yesterday’s solutions:

Across: 1 Put on the spot. 9 Adobe. 10 Going rate. 11 Papoose. 12 Mooring. 13 Errant. 14 Artefact. 17 Medieval. 19 Piqued. 23 Goodbye. 25 Tepidly. 26 Theoretic. 27 Synod. 28 Second to none.

Down: 1 Prospered. 2 Tie down. 3 Nugget. 4 Hail Mary. 5 Signore. 6 Okapi. 7 Sample. 8 Height. 15 Abundance. 16 Talented. 17 Mighty. 18 Embargo. 20 Impasto. 21 Dryads. 22 Stucco. 24 Obese.

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Soothing poor ill mouse that caught influenza (11) 9 Mexican to prepare for government duty (6,3) 10 Climber clings onto alternativ­e to tusks (5) 11 Photo captured a girl with little imaginatio­n (7) 12 Terrible coward caught the tail end of superpower conflict (4,3)

13 Spent in leafy alternativ­e bazaar (6)

15 Individual to absorb and forego education without any revision (8) 18 Degenerate nightspot is vacant after 10 years (8) 19 Trouble inspiring a maths problem (6)

22 Free port allegedly reduced charge (7) 24 Attacks as wrong brat waves guns (7)

26 Canvas support in use as elastic band (5)

27 Vagrant winkled out tinier insect (9)

28 Verge on character’s journey (6,5)

DOWN

1 Chinese leader kept account in a Chinese province (5)

2 Abused innocent child on play dates (9)

3 Untouched by internatio­nal law (6)

4 Clone six versions of dictionari­es (8)

5 Reverse angle ironically converged on window (5) 6 Device for timing chain holding up past two movements (9)

7 Spot the French going after the prostitute’s boss (6) 8 Cross between heartless harpy and flighty bird (6) 14 Reckons with certainty or error (7,2)

16 A dip’s bewitched fruit fly (9)

17 Reason the middle of fiord was lower (8)

18 Smart drugs originatin­g with liquid paper (6) 20 Means to take the lead from hounds (6)

21 Fats Domino’s outside after backchat with one (6) 23 Great success in setting up environmen­tal centre (5) 25 Catch one’s breath and catch on to the right to catch on (5)

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