SOWETAN CROSSWORD 2295

ACROSS

1 The capital of Eritrea (6) 4 An individual human being (6) 7 To be the owner of (6) 10 Morally corrupt (6) 11 Feeble (6) 13 A round juicy citrus fruit (6) 14 To confess, admit (3) 15 A Sharp bend (6) 17 Widespread protest (6) 20 American Revised Version (3) 21 Spread out (6) 22 To compel (6) 23 The five seas Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic (6) 24 Capital of Saudi Arabia (6) 27 Member of a people living chiefly around Mount Kenya (6) 28 A drinking vessel (6)

DOWN

1 Commotion (6) 2 Short for metropolitan (3) 3 All Concerned Notified (3) 4 The capital of Benin (5,4) 5 Supremely evil, diabolic (7) 6 Convent (7) 8 Type of stringed instrument (5) 9 Relating to an axis (5) 12 The capital of Somalia (9) 15 To remove a person from ecclesiastical office (7) 16 A deck aboard a ship used for mounting of cannon (3,4) 18 Total (5) 19 Unbending (5) 24 Falsify (3) 25 The entire (3) 26 Clobber (3)

Thursday’s solutions

ACROSS:

2 Low 4 Malabo 7 Sea 8 Autumn 9 Goal 10 Ray 11 Owe 12 Out 13 You 14 Slave 16 UKFF 18 Nose 20 Impi 22 Beef 23 Gray 24 Nab 26 Fog 27 SOS 28 His 29 Anti 30 Novena 31 Sea 32 Offers 32 YEA

DOWN:

1 Astray 2 Laayoune 3 Witness 4 Monrovia 5 Light up 6 Only if 15 Leggings 17 Kinshasa 19 Off line 21 Mystery 22 Bamako 25 Bissau