SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 993

Entries must reach Contest Editor SuperQuick 993, 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 A pithy “A little honey” (5,3,5)

8 It’s quite disgusting, but Simone is really getting upset about nothing (7) 9 That is later to be converted into a studio (7)

11 Why you shift it back inside (6)

13 Chuck the peg back in: it’s very short (8)

15 Not a leader, anyhow, though he arrived before the others (5) 16 Possibly the A6. Brown took the MI in (7)

18 The wave that engulfed the house was a real misfortune (7)

19 Sounds and flashes (5)

21 A drawing test (3,5)

23 The man composed the poem in N.Italy (6)

25 The wrong people are in anguish (7)

26 I get a cut on making the sale (7)

28 No demand for ice-cream (that’s very neat!) (5-3,5)

DOWN

2 “Was the compere, “I interjected, “given a lift?” (7)

3 Doris, heartbroken, is abroad (3)

4 It could be the means of making money, which would help (4)

5 One that’s passed over in the sorting? (4,6)

6 The question is, do we capture the woman? (5)

7 Had I done wrong including it in the publication? (7)

8 Brown poured the gin out. One more than that is too much! (6,5) 10 OK once the drought is over? (5,2,4)

12 Forgive and, with a change of heart, sign (5)

14 It’s clear he will surpass the others, though past his best (4,3,3) 17 Saw the cat going up to (5)

18 The twit took a wrong turn, going into a very hot spot (7)

20 A crack about the man: an Indian (7)

22 A very good answer to “What do you do when you’ve shuffled?” (5) 24 On the lake, one will tie up (4)

27 About three-quarters of an acre in the park? (3)