SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 929

Entries must reach Contest Editor SuperQuick 929 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.

ACROSS

1 Principal opportunity for personal gain? (4,6)

6 Advertising account? (4)

10 An afternoon performance, although it’s name suggests a morning one (7) 11 Rose would never be the same again after getting into hot water (7)

12 One volunteering to help old Harry accommodate the husband from France (9)

13 Ran back with the first of the earthenware (5)

14 A bit of a bloomer in a popular film, a friend held (5)

15 Figure it’s an elm that’s diseased; pull it down (9)

17 Steam diverted by barrier in port (9)

20 Call for evening dress (5)

21 The pamphlet followed, in a manner of speaking (5)

23 Sneaky method of bowling (9)

25 Love story that shouldn’t be believed (7)

26 Godless type hates it to be different (7)

27 Time to go out with a girlfriend (4)

28 Is he bad-tempered because he has a religious emblem to repair (10)

DOWN

1 Complaint of the old lady’s about parking (5)

2 Makes it known it is meant to be varied (9)

3 But does it keep the extremities warm? (7,7)

4 Prevented it being turned away (7)

5 Customers’ right in the courts (7)

7 It would be perfect if I had each half left (5)

8 Its lack of weight enables curious thing to be loaded into the French ship (9) 9 Principal objective of a teaching career? (14)

14 Worked on a building site when drunk (9)

16 Equip Kingsley in the race to become a marital offender (9)

18 A bribe for the Frenchman (7)

19 The assistant officer is on the charts with “Hotheads” (7)

22 Acknowledge that it is under a decimetre (5)

24 A foreign wife (5)