THE ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across
1 Hit back and attract daughter to
tree (8)
9 Fraud in a misrepresentation but
not scared (8)
10 Wanted Man dined out (2,6) 11 Sign of decay as group
confronts Frenchman (8)
12 I face boiling sun, left to roast terribly, needing protectors (10)
14 Thanks team for lift (4)
15 Fish is good swimmer to live
with top kingklip (7)
17 Glutton’s family provides cover
(7)
21 You ate first chokka in the old
days (4)
22 Lofty growth or return of danger
movement? (4,6)
23 Moaned about meal - noted
nothing was taken (8)
25 Amidst sane pile - psychiatric
disorder (8)
26 Watch black lines of visual
overhangs (8)
27 Rush to mark endless paradise
(8)
Down
2 Up on new smell, say, for twak (8) 3 Dog destroys robe on rubbish (8) 4 Friend after love stone (4)
5 Chap grabs first girl’s leg with
feeling of effrontery (7) 6 Resistance shown in disappearing from polishing (10)
7 Central cowboys bend ear to
second without a saddle (8) 8 Bond promotion - he’s one
performing (8)
13 Peculiarity of wild bear getting
food quota (10)
15 Ducks in two good stories,
delivered with a twist (8) 16 English cold creeps into crowd
to constrain (8)
18 Titivate small little dog
embodying mystery cure (6,2) 19 Detailed part of revolutionary
Lourdes 1m e-ticket (8) 20 Victoria raised corgi with
dresses, oddly (7)
24 Arrive at Grand Prix 1000
area (4)