SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 725
Entries must reach Contest Editor SUPERQUICK 725, 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. Be reconciled to, as a rule, catching
the sun (6) 4. Fell out or were thrown out (8) 10. Don’t disturb the ram in it that’s
sleeping (7) 11. Poured soy on the
shellfish (7) 12. Gather he’s a no-good (4) 13. So called because he whips things? (3-7) 16. Still crackling (6) 17. To be accurate, about a hundred mince-pies
would cover it (7) 20. Observes the warnings (7) 21. The note to me, anyhow, is not friendly (6) 24. Generous - not grasping (4-6) 25. Be very keen to give it to the child (4) 27. Remains outside in the street, speaking
French (7) 29. Tears back inside in a tizzy to get medicine (7) 30. Runs and puts the coat back into the press,
folded (8) 31. “Different ones of a different sort,” he put in
(6)
rest: cooked
DOWN 1. Angry, thwart the organisation (3,5) 2. Give the feeling, when you start to play an
instrument (6,1,4) 3. Seize at when turning right and catch outside
(4) 5. They lift up and the birds can get a drink in
them (4-4) 6. Thinking it had been stolen (10) 7. Eaten, it’s half ripe, I find, inside (3) 8. It’s a waste of sand (6) 9. “Bet,” you say, “the vegetarian won’t
eat it” (5) 14. It’s after two and there are no more (4,2,5) 15. Had the last of it and was high by the end (8,2) 18. Said to give water to the pet animal (8) 19. Capturing the wild animals, I reckon (8) 22. Where one curries favour with tennis players?
(6) 23. For instance, the chap is going round with a
Welsh girl (5) 26. Said angrily “Signal back” (4) 28. It’s spring sun, dad (3) Across: 1 Uncanny 5 Glances 9 Harem 10 Addiction 11 Loomed 12 Twitters 14 Rondo 15 Powerless 18 Wholemeal 20 Purse 22 Cut-price 24 Stroll 26 Alleviate 27 Bring 28 Nonplus 29 Pierrot. Down: 1 Unholy row 2 Cartoon 3 Number one 4 Year 5 Go down well 6 Ascot 7 Chinese 8 Sinks 13 Upper-class 16 Reputable 17 Shed light 19 Ortolan 21 Roomier 22 Chain 23 Rival 25 Leap.
SUPERQUICK 724 Winners: R100 R O’Kane R50: C Klichowicz, M Ehlers, P Berthold