THE ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 Grilled steak includes a custom

slap chips, for example (9) 6 Managed business before

deputy returned (5)

9 Growth of Post Office leads to lawfulness — yes, perfection (5)

10 Screen for role one time, then

no one has to come back (9) 11 Group converge at City Hall, for

instance (9,6)

13 Second athlete with beaker

that doesn’t get cold (6-2) 14 Tahiti that I developed, one

concludes (6)

16 Cold year grips girl with

elegance (6)

18 I follow river with an inhabitant

of Ibadan (8)

21 Threat of cross words from

same cold phoney (5,2,8) 23 Joker and bright, but she

cheats with hands (4,5) 25 Composer ends off in B# set?

No (5)

26 Small rodent clipped hawker

(5)

27 Revolutionary air to help one’s

judgment (9) Down

1 Point to image (5)

2 Mount half a kilogram about

one-person vessel (11) 3 Force a mole up container (7) 4 Granny Smith harbours one question concerning handcraft (8)

5 Wanders but remains about

right (6)

6 Part cockroach, I’m eradicated

by fire-breathing monster (7) 7 Starts to pen heartfelt, intimate

letter (3)

8 Plant fine cat, reportedly (9) 12 Belittles 3 X 6 crumpled sail

(English, small) (11)

13 Bags rifles after meeting of

rugby players (9)

15 Come here and maybe zap A1

hay (4,4)

17 They beat others but are

miserable winners (7)

19 Wash over No 1’s ore (7) 20 Scared of a tattered state (6) 22 Cavity develops from fault over

America (5)

24 Jumper for limited stable boy

(3)