SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 746

Entries must reach Contest Editor SUPERQUICK 746, 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. Enters to get and takes up (4,2,3) 6. Walk the way a policeman would (5) 9. That’s a laugh! The doctor is back in

America? (5) 10.A saint-to-be, perhaps, but

willed (9) 11.Supported and gave one’s seat to?

(5,2,3) 12. It’s only a note to myself (4) 14. Established, one said, a right to enter (7) 15. Asked one to do it again, but aim outside the

centre (7) 17. Leaves, wrapped up, the lady’s bird cages (7) 19. Having drawn out a dagger the day before (7) 20. Leave the end off of “15”, but keep the middle

part (4) 22. Funny play about a member of the family, it

would seem (10) 25. Lost at sea? (3,6) 26. Get better half to make speech (5) 27. Is obliged, by the time I’m leaving, to hurry (5) 28. After the five hundred and first, stopped,

bloated (9) self-

DOWN 1. So fat it’s indecent? (5) 2. Having returned the bundle to “26”, tell you

more (9) 3. Besides, that’s where a really bad summer is

awful (2,8) 4. Didn’t succeed - in keeping up? (7) 5. Give back the balance, or a quarter (7) 6. A greasy piece of paper? (4) 7. Realising, with fear, a river runs through it

(5) 8. Would have you think it had been looked

after before (9) 13. How did the phrase come about “Win by a

nose”? (6,4) 14. The looted material? (9) 16. Chiefly relied on - and that’s a hard thing to

change (5-4) 18. Narrowed down to a band, coloured (7) 19. They’re attractive and useful for storage (7) 21. Knocking back the hair, ourselves, of the dog

(5) 23. Give up and return (5) 24. There’s nothing it’s like in particular (4) Across: 1 Record; 4 Sixpence; 10 Cayenne; 11 Lunatic; 12 Send; 13 Breathless; 16 Assume; 17 Reproof; 20 Managed; 21 Intent; 24 Clementine; 25 Fair; 27 Realise; 29 Captive; 30 Desolate; 31 Trunks. Down: 1 Rickshaw; 2; Crying shame; 3 Ring; 5 Ill-fated; 6 Punch-drunk; 7 Nut; 8 Excess; 9 Heard; 14 Exoneration; 15 Immaterial; 18 Sentient; 19 Starters; 22 Scored; 23 Knock; 26 Spar; 28 Ass. SUPERQUICK 745 Winners: R100 B Solomon R50: N Hanekom, C Murison, D Rennie