SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 957

Entries must reach Contest Editor SuperQuick 957, 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 Cancelling the passage (8)

5 To a degree creating a boom in certain furniture (6)

9 Poisoning the cat a tree had provided protection for (8)

10 Shame on you! The interior can undergo conversion as intended! (6) 12 Brown, I note. plain and simple (6)

13 Stated a couple of fellows, one carrying a gun, came out (8)

15 Can you see yourself sleeping on it? (5,2,5)

18 How, when you think about it, “esnes” makes sense (2,10) 23 Rewards, we’re told, with sweets (8)

24 Catch, first, the returned love bird (6)

26 Enjoy seeing the heirs wrangle about the figure (6)

27 With a spoon I stir it in, but it’s a job (8)

28 The day is a month after, which does daunt one (6)

29 Are there claps when one speaks so? (8)

DOWN

1 Figure the stewed pears taste sour (6) 2 Boo off, at first, the instrumentalist (6) 3 His playing at bridge is Continental (7) 4 A number ran amok in Vienna (4)

6 Mounting an insurrection (7)

7 The one Mabel’s scattered about is a fertiliser (4-4)

8 Be too generous in your treatment of someone (8) 11 Because there are newts about, tries (7)

14 Getting me to take the fellows in a souvenir (7) 16 Speculated as to whether the word need be altered (8) 17 Though a bit less upset about the redhead, is annoyed (8) 19 I see, turning round, a far different flower (7)

20 What I think is owing (7)

21 A member of the team is jailed (6)

22 Pays for with rises (6)

25 Heavens, try, mum! (4)