CROSSWORD 4498

WE OFFER a R100 prize for the first correct entry drawn. Entries, on a postcard please, with your name, address and a contact number, should be addressed to Crossword 4498, Mercury Good Life, Box 47161, Greyville, 4023. ACROSS 1.Figure he was crazy: a nut (6) 4.Show an official-looking document (8) 10.Doles out, to a number, food (7) 11.Find to be disparaging (3,4) 12.Promise to ring at the hospital (4) 13.Called on with the money? (4,1,5) 16.The twit returned with a hard, fibrous object

(6) 17.The dogs they incite to attack (7) 20.When the report rings out, I will be

entertaining (7) 21.Decoding the code I left in is easily managed

(6) 24.When, eventually, we’ll manage to have that

picnic? (3,4,3) 25.Drives out of the nest (4) 27.Wrap up. The couple of days in Wales will be

rough (7) 29.She was in a crooked deal previously (7) 30.A drop-out at first who’s become a writer (8) 31.Remain attached, though had come loose before (6) DOWN 1.Cold pasta and, stuck in it, a spoon (8) 2.“Halt,” for instance, and it doesn’t give you much time

(5,6) 3.She’s backward: that’s the whole point (4) 5.Cuts down the work (8) 6.Giving a local a hand with something new (10) 7.The I in “Latin” (3) 8.The opinions of a number of creatures from outer

space? (6) 9.Try to get quarters, for instance (5) 14.When the food’s dished out when one’s in jail? (7,4) 15.Just thinking? (4-6) 18.The jellied eel in shops, anyhow, is no good (8) 19.Induce, with a super ploy, to take the man back (8) 22.Disposes of what’s left of the wets? (4,2) 23.Is a man unhappy about getting it to eat? (5) 26.The star guide (4) 28.A breeze and fine rain (3)