SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 678

Entries must reach Contest Editor SUPERQUICK 678, Top of the Times PO Box 11, Cape Town 8000 or e-mail tott@inl.co.za by midday on Wednesday. The first correct entry drawn wins R100, the next three R50 each. Winners are announced next week. NOTE: Please include your postal address and contact number with your entry. 1. The dog I gave the roll to is a boxer

(8) 5. Run through the new acts again. (6) 10. They’re not still living near to you

(5,10) 11. I examine the lining of the shade:

it’s fastened on (7) 12. A handicap that will puzzle you? (7) 13. Isn’t wrong about the woman one gets the

bequest from (8) 15. Take your time preparing the meal (breakfast)

in it (5) 18. Past it when I left: that’s clear (5) 20. Think the sea got it and swallowed it up (8) 23. Punish you when you keep it up (7) 25. Came back with material that misled one (7) 26. Explained what the de-mister did (4,6,5) 27. This time one has a match (6) 28. Understood to be a true side-splitter (8) DOWN 1. Have the utensil go where the provisions go.

(6) 2. Be really sorry about the bad can of beef (9) 3. The former contains, still, clothes you’ll never

wear again (7) 4. While away, get through your money (5) 6. For the bird, I get a plant (7) 7. Row it takes a second to pick (5) 8. Helped the twit get the diets sorted out (8) 9. Getting on, is among the old and suffering (8) 14. Before one has finished singing “Up, Up and

Away”? (2,3-3) 16. The lunacy it requires to become a night

flier? (9) 17. Does order me soup (8) 19. A flow or letters giving support (7) 21. About now! (7) 22. Loved a stick-up man (6) 24. The left inside edge (5) 25. Be sorry and drive back in to get Scamp (5) Across: 1 Revoking. 5 Scotch. 9 Divinity. 10 Keen on. 12 Sucker. 13 Colossal. 15 Churchwarden. 18 Alliteration. 23 Growling. 24 Senior. 26 Abides. 27 Mahogany. 28 Digest. 29 Grasmere. Down: 1 Radish. 2 Vivace. 3 Kenneth. 4 Note. 6 Cremona. 7 Tyneside. 8 Handling. 11 Top hats. 14 Dry runs. 16 Vanguard. 17 Blooming. 19 Tellers. 20 Onerous. 21 Pirate. 22 Groyne. 25 Hair.

SUPERQUICK 677 Winners: R100 P Hicks R50: S Llewelyn, B Shear, N Woodward