SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 750

Entries must reach Contest Editor SUPERQUICK 750, 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. 5. 8.

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30. 31. Gave the man a shout and a wave (6) Look! There’s a sea fish in it! (6) It flows over her, swimming round (5) For the dog, I get expensive food (6) As you write, fool about in the wood (6) Flashes that are signs (5) Be dictated to and demolish it (4,4) “A sweetmeat we eat” is not quite a tongue-twister (6) Really good, as teetotal drinks go? (2,3,5,5) One did the wrong thing in backing him (6) Fed up about the fight when one used someone else’s (8) Clear, thanks to her (5) Running, pop back into the wood (6) Caught in their web how often? (6) The big-end is in a real mess. That’s just great! (5) To use corporal punishment won’t work (6) After the point should come a zero (6)

DOWN 1. The animal you stake outside, with the dog (6) 2. A guiding star? (4) 3. Send away for, but it’s a dead loss (5-3) 4. Furnished by others; there’s nothing personal about it (3-12) Work it out about the drunken sea-man (6) Say firmly “When the right girl turns up” (4) Strand - with a lot of sand (6) Change your mind about melting the ice round it (7) The animal list goes back to the keeper (7) He’ll be back if there’s drink about .... (5) .... and she’s a little devil when there’s drink 5. 6. 7. 12.

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20. 21. 23. 24. 26. about! (5) Give a warning that’s earth-shattering at the time (8) Is boring the medicos about the sick (6) Nigel’s out for one (6) Manage to get straight (6) Says briskly “Stand up and fight” (4) Are about to call (4) Across: 1 Negotiator; 6 Calf; 10 Convert; 11 Precise; 12 Silesians; 13 Ice up; 14 Homer; 15 Tadcaster; 17 Running in; 20 Sally; 21 Basil; 23 Low Church; 25 Cayenne; 26 Adopted; 27 Shem; 28 Undersides. Down: 1 Nicks; 2 Gentleman; 3 Treasure Island; 4 Attract; 5 Opposed 7 Alive; 8 Fred Perry; 9 Medical schools; 14 Hardbacks; 16 Tolerated; 18 Galleon; 19 Newgate; 22 Style; 24 Hides. SUPERQUICK 749 Winners: R100 J Taylor R50: E Jacobson, M Ehlers, E Tennant