THE ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 Snooper made earlier

announcement (5)

4 Live inside, cry about outside, and pull faces at opportunity to connect (9)

9 Ja, ewe is the solution

... (3)

10 ... I love - X! (3)

11 Put square in good

frame (7)

12 Male politician has

dagga (4)

13 A bar, a bar! O Manager, hold back the local game! (10)

15 Briefly finish sleeping

next to one’s kist (5) 16 Aziz and I milk nervous

chief (9)

17 Give in - manipulated, directed, manoeuvred (9)

21 Watching, for example,

over Yang’s partner (5) 23 Ado or Zen? Regularly avoid the Roman version (4,1,5) 24 Inspects central

technical detail (4) 27 Drills in way I lost, oddly

(7)

28 So that’s the way it is; a

half-half outcome (3) 29 Draw Final Testament

that’s ... (3)

30 ... a natural way for uninitiated beginners bravely entering law training (9)

31 Report about small

heart (5)

Down

1 Discipline tipsy children’s

bears (5)

2 Wild beast seizes shredded mash of religious clothing (7) 3 Daily grinds rust off (4) 4 Follow the crowd about, performing for millions (7)

5 Graduate’s mother cooks

it as rice (7) 6 Formalised it in residual

negotiations (10)

7 Ail about Abba arrangements by 41st thief? (3,4)

8 Impression that England

is having a huge party (9) 14 Object to a panic about relation

(10)

15 Relative importance of crew in

section (9)

18 Madly love ski-car (7) 19 Check out Left - nothing good

to learn (4-3) 20 Pass on to players molten metal

in moulds (3-4)

22 Force American to follow

favourite (I am first) (7)

25 Cold? Then about morning is

best (5)

26 Preserve breadth of side-post

(4)