Cape Argus

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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ACROSS CRYPTIC

1 Horrified one has tag the wrong way round (6)

4 Turn to use as evidence about tablet being oval (8)

10 Fancy all redheads at a distance (3)

11 Ridicule last land reform with all one’s might (5,3,3)

12 For ever a lofty newspaper (2,3,5)

13 Celebratio­n as a prisoner comes back (4)

15 Cut up after having gambled, with death perhaps? (5)

16 Countenanc­e plays a prominent part (8)

20 Become less dull in his fashion (8)

21 Warms up for preliminar­y races (5)

24 Inside, perhaps, ecclesiast­ical part of the church (4)

26 Random pile made level, for example (10)

28 Company left site in the usual grouping (11)

29 Droop as vapour returns (3)

30 Dragged one’s feet as imposter ran (8)

31 Break from school though hole in a wall (6)

DOWN

1 A fool’s cap to become threadbare scrap (6)

2 Collection of plants and hospital meal she owns? (9)

3 Officers in underwater vessel change directions (10)

5 Took heed and told stories about gun (8)

6 Taverns where northern Europeans lost their head (4)

7 Sailor accepting one with a crown (5)

8 Fall and rise of everything in a small wood (8)

9 Spiritual masters beyond stripping down enlisted men (5)

14 Crowd present between nine and eleven move to music (10)

17 Turned up to somehow restore us (9)

18 Moves up and down payment (8)

19 Prank ceased being funny when father intruded (8)

22 Drip into cover when boiling (5)

23 Stable sounds of unstable hinges (6)

25 Relish contents of colossal sandwich (5)

27 Search for company doctor (4)

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