SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 989

Entries must reach Contest Editor SuperQuick 989, 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 In other words, the same again (10)

6 You’re greatly mistaken, friend (4)

10 Outline a little of the venture, to make things more exciting (7) 11 Clings to, at this stage, in sad disarray (7)

12 Go to pieces and rub out all the notes? (9)

13 Not playing the game, dropping me in the Pacific? (5)

14 Pop right in for a little something to eat (5)

15 Monarch for about a second, is abdicating (9)

17 Has a bigger spread than? (9)

20 Separated for a bit (5)

21 Part of an old variety programme, right? (5)

23 Watch out! When in the mood, can get blazing! (9)

25 Leaky oil a dope packed for an Italian holiday (7)

26 Speaks about the way to smuggle in marijuana (7)

27 Looks back to see the enclosed yard (4)

28 Seeps through the cat, Leo’s, got loose (10)

DOWN

1 Implore the page to usher one in (5)

2 Not willing to let a cult develop in it (9)

3 A drawer of low-down pictures (8,6)

4 For spite, managed to get the dog to catch the ball (7) 5 Giving Dorothy time to enter the runners in The National? (7) 7 Whereupon we up and left the bird (5)

8 Ensured there’d be a haze over anything studied at school?(9) 9 Have a good image (10,4)

14 A sign the padre could be out front (9)

16 Soon the girl is joined by a second (2,1,6)

18 Though yellow, egg a mob into a frenzy (7)

19 It’s ironic a broken-down car is holding it up (7)

22 Knowing there will be a fight before the end (5)

24 Cooks about a quarter the quantities (5)