THE ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across
1 Get hard old ship, provided by
unknown (6)
4 Touch up broadcast with book hurry! (8)
9 Main sucker gets right into
mashed potato (7)
11 Back positive hour - nothing lost
- getting brimstone (7)
12 Get cellar to regularly show
distinction (5)
13 Confuse with stern six deliveries
first (9)
14 I am making initial openings and
allowances for newcomers (10) 16 Tooth and nail, half backwards,
in fighting case (4)
19 Weapon has terminal black
sticky residue (4)
20 Learner gets easy paper with
nice protection of time (10) 22 Poncho to indicate end of
peninsular (4,5)
23 Joke about shells (5)
25 Cutting wordplay about
resistance in government (7) 26 Stoke upset about fat ultimately
left in braai pan (7)
27 Small tiny tape around bloomer
(8)
28 Firm puts money into research
(6)
Down
1 In debt about new article being up
in the air (2,3,4)
2 Leaps about blooming part (5) 3 Street view makes van to get
on (8)
5 Examining bodies of insects - or
a pet - is moving (13)
6 Local rules in relation to large saw
mill (6)
7 Sir will hesitate at hotel the
French think a Zimbabwean accommodation (9)
8 Wives or slaves? Ha, rattle
vacuous male! (5)
10 Father of SA English poetry describes moth fluttering at a water source at heart of vlei (6,7)
15 Mysteriously open a muse in this
stage of life (9)
17 Feel up in donga with much
pleasure (9)
18 Sensation arises, OK! (8) 21 Support for fractured members
in break-up over name (6) 22 Manages energy bottled up in
policemen (5)
24 Table change of speaker (5)