SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 1027

Entries must reach Contest Editor SuperQuick 1027, 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 Reduces - the quantity of trees? (4,4)

5 Must somehow return the dud (6)

9 Desolate, the man gets a gun out (8)

10 The Scotsman was to train the birds (6)

12 A dog is strange to find in a jumble sale (6) 13 ‘Not-a my own teeth,’ said in a strained voice? (8) 15 In the pause before the next sentence begins? (12) 18 Is it, to this day, an offence to use it? (7,5)

23 He puts down the instrument (8)

24 Calling ‘Run!’ (6)

26 One of the less solvent middlemen? (6) 27 Lengthens the story about the slow bowler? (5,3) 28 Dislike of French with an exam coming along (6) 29 Surprised to be let out, darts wildly about (8)

DOWN

1 One man of fifty in class (6)

2 The litter’s taken about an hour to pulverise (6) 3 Refuse to give one the cases (7)

4 A small, dead plant (4) 6 The passage leads across to it (7)

7 Plan to give it back to me in the interval (8)

8 Come back when the person’s out, with the key (8)

11 Let the dope stand outside with members of the family (7) 14 Teaser that gets one in a dither? (7)

16 How Doris prepared to go to bed? (8)

17 During the match want to leave people in the dark (5,3) 19 They may be shaggy dogs taken out driving! (7)

20 The slimmer redhead on the inside is a student (7) 21 Flinch from the kick (6)

22 ‘In particles’ didn’t sound good (6)

25 The dog bit (4)