THE ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 Guide business (international

body) to market gold (10)

6 No time to hammer bulge (4) 8 Small child with spectacles went

first and taught (8)

9 Sudden urge attached to dash (6) 10 Utter “foul”! (4)

11 He gets high, this astronaut

trainee (5,5)

12 First tribunal court cold and sane about traditional Cape event (3,6)

14 Discovers that depth splits parts

of shark (5)

17 Red ant endeavours enthralled

old poet (5)

19 Sob about note on endless con

relating to childbirth (9) 22 Gossiper to relate wildly about

animal (10)

23 Skilful antelope hides its head

(4)

24 Good old male starts to pacify

overstressed uppity bustard (6) 25 Drought area – dress in

synthetic (8)

26 Retreat into third depression (4) 27 Move equipment a little right for

pet (10)

Down

1 No balls are valued by players? (9) 2 Love thou crazily, outside and

inside (7)

3 Recruited mad Len first, then

Edward (8)

4 Lay-about daughter mentions article shed on a road to writer and painter (4,4,7)

5 Small university town (6)

6 Healer makes a heel to support

Rosemary (9)

7 Delude one’s field in Introductory

Mathematics and Dynamics (7) 13 Nothing, then tops – amazingly

and immediately (2,3,4) 15 Victory for faceless heiress (9) 16 Bright as a celebrity? (8)

18 A book only on seafood (7) 20 Thief takes penultimate refuge in southern Cape promontory (7)

21 Make inactive mountain mummy

be regular (6)