SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 1087
Entries must reach Contest Editor SuperQuick 1087, 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 SCRATCH PATCH
1 Being rather on the dim side, it’s too much to put up with (1,3,5)
8 I’m taking the seed – it’s a sudden inclination (7)
9 Liqueur sloshing around in baths (7)
10 On return, the salesman picks a hundred out for the captain (7)
13 To everyone it’s obvious it means the danger’s over (3-5)
14 The kingdom detail is quite authentic (4)
16 High quality meat for a number at the Red Lion, anyhow (10)
20 Are too difficult for one to defeat (4)
22 Plenty of luggage (4)
24 It may involve using twice as many words, but it amounts to nothing (6-4) 28 The animals return to grass (4)
29 Horse article I included is highly thought of (8)
31 Bobby’s such a bright one (7)
34 One run by British Rail for churchgoers? (7)
35 Is at home, cooler, thanks to the princess (7)
36 Wrongly informed about there being anything beyond the fog (9) DOWN
1 It’s stubborn of mother, putting a worker out (7)
2 Slight reduction in the hormone (7)
3 Like the music of a quartet on a long-playing record? (5)
4 Biblical character contrived lies about the ham being cooked (7) 5 Deceives the children (4)
6 How to get water out of a shoe (4) 7 Where the man turned up with the new trio in the U.S. (7)
11 An officer, do we hear, to the core? (6)
12 Foreigner seen outside a barber’s shop (4)
15 Wrongly encourage the sailor to pick up the note (4)
17 Are turning up but taking an age (3)
18 A bout of illness, and you might be given it (4)
19 Is the puzzle why it’s got so many holes in it? (6)
21 A boring one, but it has its place in the Shaw library (3)
22 An undisguised victory for the PM (7)
23 The King George alphabet is familiar to Austrians (4)
25 In certain vehicles see women wearing them (7)
26 Lowering a silver-coated dish (7)
27 It would be most considerate were the tin desk to be shifted (7) 30 She stands, identifying herself as a man (5)
32 Hazel’s crazy, losing her head with such enthusiasm (4)
33 I leave the New Zealander about to go a-roving (4)
SOLUTION TO PUZZLE 1086
Across: 3 Metropolis. 8 Monica. 9 Even. 10 Highwayman. 11 Got. 13 Bass. 14 Stretch. 15 Shot. 17 Tepid. 20 Tapes. 22 Lows. 24 Instead. 25 Cute. 27 Vet. 28 Broad-sword. 29 Idle. 30 Earned. 31 Greensward.
Down: 1 Dominate. 2 Dishes. 3 Manages. 4 Tramp. 5 Open. 6 Long-stop. 7 Switches. 12 Trot. 14 Stew. 16 Hold. 17 Thieving. 18 Positive. 19 Drew. 21 Extorted. 23 Studied. 25 Coward. 26 Sonia. 28 Bees.