THE ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Across
1 Dope owns hotel - his undoing (7) 5 Collect drink and put it in returned
dessert (4,2)
8 Bilingual message gets Gail
excited (9)
9 Misbehave and set accountant
back (3,2)
11 Poet who never left the house?
(5)
12 Screens dagga where I cannot
see (5,4)
13 Arrived with little bouncer and first nursemaids in the country (8)
15 Who heard right? Oh, yay! (6) 17 The sun one regularly learns to
guard against primarily (6) 19 Snorted about length of content
(8)
22 Tool to make it happen (9) 23 Some sporadic tantrums
become proclamations (5) 24 Happy to finally initiate clearing
(5)
25 Go mal over the endless
argument about Fiat (5,1,3) 26 Trader reportedly from
Thohoyandou? (6)
27 Get Lara out on the run (2,5)
Down
1 Encounter barrier while climbing
the wall and blow a fuse (3,3,7) 2 Relation met Poms for
reconciliation (7)
3 Bury section of Benin Terrace in
... (5)
4 ... Jozi suburb that is hard, bad,
and interminably toasted (8) 5 Bunkers down and starts to eat
(4,2)
6 Level is ironically this – variable
(2,3,4)
7 Put off work after rain starts? Is
that good enough? (2,2,3) 10 Vicious fight on field with wild
debate about odd talk (7,6) 14 Winding gold verge in Karoo
mountains (9)
16 Touchstones about practice with
upcoming song (8)
18 Relaxed professional follows
nervous tape (2,5)
20 The devil has fortune cut short
by uncontrollable fire (7) 21 Wept about Ermelo starting to
barter final alloy (6)
23 Pin makes party (well, almost)
(5)