SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 958
Entries must reach Contest Editor SuperQuick 958, 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 The different races are included in her new study (8)
5 Spends the time getting tickets (6)
10 “You’re wearing a wig!” when you’re not? (5,10)
11 I don’t know who, therefore, will get me to the unit (7)
12 Then disposing of the vast quantities of food (7)
13 Aimed to repair the dent in one end, anyhow (8)
15 When the sun is out in midweek, succeed (5)
18 Talk about a pianoforte finale (5)
20 Just a mass of nerves! (8)
23 Write “Child, I am in a boarding-house” (7)
25 Not one of those ever-flighty birds! (7)
26 Happily, it does reveal something (10,5)
27 Squeals when it breaks (6)
28 In the coloured sleeve is the tune I composed: Together Again (8)
1 Say “No! Rubbish! The accent is on the first syllable!” (6)
2 City a fellow got caught in, unfortunately, returning (9)
3 The girl’s taken about a quarter second to identify the flower (7) 4 The key you long to get, to the store (5) 6 He’s building a lean-to (7)
7 Calm even then (5)
8 In relation to the outside, ominous (8)
9 Undercut in money, retired (6,2)
14 That drink certainly smells! (4-4)
16 From which the candidate will be chosen for the electrician’s job? (5-4) 17 Make little of the indication that you’ve sprained something (8) 19 Making it clear if there were something happening I’d step in (7) 21 Visits, all right, the wild lions caged (5,2)
22 Fell the tree at the bottom, chum (6)
24 Land the aircraft, somehow (5)
25 Always a turn in a show making a come-back (5)
SOLUTION TO 957:
Across: 1 Crossing. 5 Bamboo. 9 Ptomaine. 10 Fiance. 12 Rustic. 13 Affirmed. 15 Sheet of glass. 18 On reflection. 23 Desserts. 24 Linnet. 26 Relish. 27 Position. 28 Dismay. 29 Thunders.
Down: 1 Capers. 2 Oboist. 3 Spanish. 4 Nine. 6 Arising. 7 Bone-meal. 8 Overdose. 11 Efforts. 14 Memento. 16 Wondered. 17 Bristles. 19 Freesia. 20 Opinion. 21 Inside. 22 Stands. 25 Gosh.
SOLUTIONS 957
Winners: R100 – Tania Metelerkamp R50 – Irma Chait; Ruth Hart; Alan J. Wilkinson