Cape Times

SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 1148

Entries must reach Contest Editor SuperQuick 1148, Top of the Times PO Box 11, Cape Town 8000 or e-mail tott@inl.co.za by midday on Wednesday. The first correct entry drawn wins R100, the next three R50 each. Winners are announced next week.

NOTE: Please include your postal address and contact number with your entry.

ACROSS

3. You’ll give your seat to? Champion! (5,2,3)

8. Put ‘stand seat’ (6)

9. Caught the name: a girl’s name (4)

10. Catches in the room: it’s very slow (6,4)

11. Return the money, idiot! (3)

13. Sighs audibly at the magnitude of it (4)

14. Injured, the man goes hell for leather (7)

15. ‘Gin is made from it, stupid’ you say (4)

17. To turn off the piano music, goes outside (5)

20. Seem peeved by the seal (5)

22. Communicat­ion of a strange character (4)

24. The rifling is bad in the attendant siege (7)

25. Acknowledg­es one needs a rest (4)

27. Again having to cover the ball game (3)

28. Calling for a seizure (10)

29. Is it responsibl­e for noises in the ear? (4)

30. Make sure the dog is inside, safe (6)

31. Clean? You can say that again! (10)

DOWN

1. Plan to see how long it takes until then (8)

2. Do nothing to create an impact (6)

3. Fathered by Neptune, there are four of them (7)

4. A lot of maps showing mountains (5)

5. D ... good fish! (4)

6. Load a great many into ships (8)

7. Leading in the fight, one gathers (6,2)

12. I upset the master, miss (4)

14. Be told a woman came round (4)

16. The material shown in figure one (4)

17. Press again to have a drink (8)

18. Being reprimande­d stopped the goings-on (6,2)

19. Don’t work with the head (4)

21. ‘Only fricassee of cod,’ I interposed, ‘and that’s second-rate’ (8)

23. Get rid of, in a convulsive sip, the medicine put out (7)

25. The review says ‘Donít miss it’ (6)

26. Clean under and around the car chassis (5)

28. Forget, when the man turns, to duck (4)

SOLUTIONS TO PUZZLE

No 1147

ACROSS:

1 Passes. 5 Rattan. 8 Erode. 9 Nausea. 10 Carton. 11 Rifle. 14 Preacher. 16 Toledo. 18 Mother and father. 20 Asides. 22 Eye-tooth. 25 Inept. 27 Lap-dog. 28 In time. 29 Huron. 30 Result. 31 Gantry. DOWN: 1 Pent-up. 2 Stub. 3 Searcher. 4 Conference pears. 5 Recent. 6 Tots. 7 Nuncio. 12 Cathode. 13 Elation. 15 Riots. 17 Dwelt. 19 Fleeting. 20 Ambler. 21 Slight. 23 Homely. 24 Opus. 26 Tint.