SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 697

Entries must reach Contest Editor SUPERQUICK 697, 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, or proof of banking details (if you would prefer an EFT) and contact number with your entry. ACROSS 1. Don’t care so much to be stupid (8) 5. Doctor’s milk supplier in the capital

(6) 9. These facial expressions are severe

ones (8) 10. Foster took me in the tool (6) 12. Maid is new, yet will have to be

replaced (6) 13. Gets mum to think about making an aromatic

mixture (8) 15. Soldier intends it to be unearned income (7,5) 18. Not an outgoing type, but gets a good

reception? (6,6) 23. Part of cart in poor state of repair (8) 24. Railwayman may be drunk (6) 26. Clergyman finishes off member of the board

(6) 27. Foreigner from

Channel? (8) 28. Ruins it, and gets hissed, possibly (6) 29. The inclination of the militants? (8)

health

resort

over

the DOWN 1. Powerful new myth about the ascendancy of

the soldier (6) 2. Fastened deal in the wrong way (6) 3. Is he only paid a pound until he passes his test?

(7) 4. Stop a letter getting under way (4) 6. Have an excess of weaponry with such

bowlers? (7) 7. Funny man will arrive with a desperate man, I

held (8) 8. Not mufti, it seems, for a prison employee

(8) 11. Sailors from a Greek island also featuring

prominently in the film? (2-5) 14. He flies the article through to the Romanian

capital (7) 16. Did not agree that it was dissimilar (8) 17. Goes on making amorous approaches (8) 19. The result-of a decision to go on strike? (7) 20. It’s curious, Don Read being decorated (7) 21. Race responsible for tension? (6) 22. When to get the girl to cook outside (6) 25. It’s a mistake appearing topless here in church

(4) Across: 1 Repentant. 6 Hello. 9 Parma. 10 Ventilate. 11 pronounced. 12 Taxi. 14 Avarice. 15 Screens. 17 Prevail. 19 Capture. 20 Rush. 22 Insobriety. 25 Gallivant. 26 Inane. 27 Stern. 28 Overspend. Down: 1 Rip up. 2 Parsonage. 3 Neapolitan. 4 Advance. 5 Tenders. 6 Hail. 7 Llama. 8 Overissue. 13 Properties. 14 Asparagus. 16 Enumerate. 18 Long-ago. 19 Chortle. 21 Salve. 23 Yield. 24 Lion.

SUPERQUICK 696 Winners: R100 G Hazell R50: A Wilkinson, J Gerstner, E Tennant