SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 879
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ACROSS
1 Show the job one used to hold (10)
6 Kick one gets at being right on target? (4) 10 As a chap is by a striking girl? (7)
11 Unties one: a bloomer (7)
12 Pen the note, perhaps, that goes inside (9) 13 See what came loose and got caught inside (5)
14 The nut-cracking, by the way, is a trick (5) 15 Kitchen equipment for the dentist? (9) 17 Two necessities for the picnic in the meadow (9)
20 Catches the fish and one hangs on to them (5)
21 Silly woman that is imprisoned (5)
23 The rope’s having got tangled into knots is better not mentioned (4,5)
25 I shoot back to California and it’s in the news (7)
26 Leave it to the boy with the hat (7) 27 Works as a char for and is good enough (4) 28 About state aid going up for a young person (10)
DOWN
SUPERQUICK 879,
1 Having seen hurtling round the bend, follow (5)
2 Tried to win, having handed over the fine money (4,5)
3 Doesn’t like scraps, as the bird does (4,2,3,5)
4 Not standing convinced cleric (7)
5 Eccentric when not on patrol (7)
7 Having since joined a group: a good thing (5)
8 Do they look after kids that don’t have nannies? (9)
9 Watch an action film “Leave Things To Fate”? (3,4,7)
14 Respectfully suggested it had been given to (9)
16 Didn’t leave the kids behind, one contended (4,5)
18 Rooked? (7)
19 Reading about a certain upstanding ally (7) 22 A fruit drink the pages brought in (5) 24 What I believe is the way into the marquee (5) it betokens the
SOLUTIONS TO 878: Across: 1 Madrigal; 5 Cherub; 10 You Never Can Tell; 11 Ecstasy; 12 Upriser; 13 Listless; 15 Ditto; 18 Wakes; 20 Underact; 23 Erasers; 25 Calling; 26 Press for payment; 27 Absent; 28 Tsarists.
Down: 1 Mayhem; 2 Drum-stick; 3 Inexact; 4 Apery; 6 Hundred; 7 Reeks; 8 Ballroom; 9 Accursed; 14 Emulsion; 16 Tackiness; 17 Sweet pea; 19 Step-son; 21 Relayer; 22 Agates; 24 Areas; 25 Capes.
SUPERQUICK 878
Winners: Neil Hanekom (R100), AJ Nunes (R50), S Morris (R50), R Naisby (R50)