SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 1058

Entries must reach Contest Editor SuperQuick 1058, 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 Favouring various strata, to begin with (3,1,5)

8 Gets the certificates ready for posting when one arrives (5,2) 9 The obvious choice for the role of the illegitimate (7)

10 Now among us (7)

13 Still, I can’t move into 4E (8)

14 Said one understands there are seven of them (4)

16 Meant to turn over (10)

20 Tax sport (4)

22 Most advisable for the champion (4)

24 Persuade me to do a hand’s turn? (5,2,3)

28 Secure a whip (4)

29 Has a rest while the wild ones cavort about (4,4)

31 Beg one to take the policeman role, which is funny (7) 34 Join one in private, perhaps (7)

35 They’re watching the little girl with the jugs (7)

36 Won’t change the crew and it’s very heavy (3,6)

DOWN

1 Thought to be one of the favourites (7)

2 Lock the bar when a temperance advocate comes in (3-4) 3 Catch with a right during the fight (5)

4 Concluded it’s very widespread (3,4)

5 Possibly crossing out the final E in ‘nonsense’ (4) 6 A girl who’s not all there, sadly (4)

7 Sprinkle the fighter with? (7)

11 Points the tear out and you are affronted (6)

12 Stop when the cold goes, which does relieve one (4) 15 Off a road (4)

17 Watch going up and down (3)

18 Is it a cipher in the form of a letter? (4)

19 One in three, perhaps, or one in two (6)

21 The current look (3)

22 Think the insect will hide up inside (7)

23 Strike back at the members of the gang (4)

25 Gets into when the underwear has been got into (5,2) 26 Making up for having got drunk in ‘The Goat Inn’ (7) 27 Are in very good condition in the tower (7)

30 Only about five find the answer (5)

32 From which the cowman forecasts bad weather? (4) 33 Fifty above the minimum point (4)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE 1057

Across: 3 Man of parts. 8 Rosita. 9 Lawn. 10 Medium size. 11 Tod. 13 Pace. 14 Andorra. 15 Shot. 17 Meter. 20 Swede. 22 Lamp. 24 Created. 25 Rook. 27 Leo. 28 Mild rebuke. 29 Tome. 30 Struck. 31 Solemn oath.

Down: 1 Forename. 2 Divine. 3 Marmots. 4 Nadia. 5 File. 6 Rent-free. 7 Seed-cake. 12 Adds. 14 Atom. 16 Held. 17 Much less. 18 Teetotal. 19 Rota. 21 Drop-kick. 23 Poorish. 25 Robert. 26 Clara. 28 Mean.