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THE ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

- JDE 273 by George Euvrard

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)

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