SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 1078

Entries must reach Contest Editor SuperQuick 1078, 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 Crooks who take people in? (9)

8 Where Elizabeth the First took part in a riotous gala? (7)

9 Gee, lady, might that be a come-hither look? (4,3)

10 Will more brilliant performers make her pale into insignificance? (7)

13 By getting off, dispelling the gloom? (8)

14 The actors drop off (4)

16 Making a bucket of soot fall on you when you open the door? (5,5)

20 Let people know you count (4)

22 By having a plate of spaghetti, perhaps (4)

24 Studies the furniture and the paintings (10)

28 Look the other way, you maintain (4)

29 Become happier when the appropriate man is brought round (8)

31 Does well to get a shirt and half a vest made from it (7)

34 Talk of setting a trap at the outlet (7)

35 Accuse publicly, as a rule, for all to hear (7)

36 Sack? (9)

DOWN

1 Entertained by ‘There’s Wind In The Shade’ (7)

2 The bell is a mistake (7)

3 Foolish though it is to cover the enclosure up (5)

4 Having real trouble with one woman (7)

5 Cuts, one noticed, with a pointed end (4)

6 Rent for about a half season (4)

7 Someone has taken a pound and that’s not all (7)

11 It gets you into the theatre for the second half of the duet ... (6)

12 ... not in time for the funny story (4)

15 Go mad after retiring (4)

17 Paid off pop and a girl (3)

18 Carry until the time I’m leaving (4)

19 Nail half a mile on and grapple with (6)

21 A Chinese name, in general (3)

22 Describe the drink to the man (7)

23 To practise with a partner, one knocks up (4)

25 Fixes when one scratches (7)

26 Twice the girl backed it into a field (7)

27 Because, again, it is unfeigned (7)

30 The texture and weight of a seed? (5)

32 Possibly a red vehicle following one (4)

33 Second at the finishing post (4)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE 1077

Across: 3 Dismissing. 8 Better. 9 Oath. 10 Drinkwater. 11 Egg. 13 Paid. 14 Hauteur. 15 Sage. 17 Shred. 20 Batty. 22 Ever. 24 Allowed. 25 Mind. 27 Eat. 28 Two hundred. 29 Idea. 30 Erased. 31 High-minded.

Down 1 Reproach. 2 Stoned. 3 Drawers. 4 Spots. 5 Ivor. 6 Inherent. 7 Gingerly. 12 Dumb. 14 Here. 16 Awed. 17 Sea-perch. 18 Relating. 19 Down. 21 Tendered. 23 Refused. 25 Medlar. 26 Pound. 28 Taxi.