THE ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

9 Personal ambition of finding

one’s net (3,4)

10 Sexy, racy Hun is wicked (7) 11 Link return of trouble to one

child (7)

12 Lively worker behind very

broken rib (7)

13 Sticks out like nonsense in

goody-goodies (9) 15 Jumped at field exercises (5) 16 He (or Sir, as it should be) gives me fearful sensations (7)

19 The devil loves revolutionary

songs (7)

20 Small and grated, fits through

sieves (5)

21 Saw clever humour with head

journo (9)

25 Time to dine on fish — and

service comes with it (3,4) 26 Develop true transformation

after race review (7)

28 Hides here to detour any

rent (7)

29 Academic gives rude awakening — it concludes with the end (7) Down

1 Blob to work under Barbie (6) 2 Place in opposition with

nothing (6)

3 The swine dominates (4) 4 Copied single found in

recording (6)

5 Conditions briefly show current

cry for help (8)

6 Brute uncle creates chaos (10) 7 Sotto voce — an automatic framework for deep-sea diver (8)

8 Top cistern at broken sty — it is causing a problem in the waterworks (8)

14 Again, put in check about

desert (10)

16 Think twice about site

overshadowed by enmity (8) 17 Stops the repeated phrases

(8)

18 Indlela yindlela (way is key) struggle veteran (8)

22 They are one behind the other: the sea rises after appearing brown (6)

23 Dust around; I close alfresco

workroom (6)

24 Engine driver passes East

London (6)

27 Slaughter right in the open (4)