Cape Times

SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 1150

Entries must reach Contest Editor SuperQuick 1150, 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

1. Be over-presumptuo­us, but be totally altruistic (6,7)

8. He’s starting (at fifty to become a breadwinne­r?) (7)

9. Leave it be, child: it’s a hat (7)

11. Change quarters long after (6)

13. And take it with you outside for marking (8)

15. She and Al prepared the food in ‘18 Across’ (5)

16. And fish about at the top of the stairs (7)

18. The way in which gas cooked pasta (7)

19. Isn’t a crinkly material (5)

21. Give the sailors tea and plenty of it (8)

23. Shut up about the man being a first-class player (6)

25. To return or not to move from Canada (7)

26. Indecisive, I got the unsweet out (7)

28. Not joking at the Pearly Gates? (2,4,7)

DOWN

2. After a trio, turned on a discourse (7)

3. The seventh letter in ‘intoxicant’ (3)

4. Unable to decide if it’s damaged (4)

5. It’s not any odder than ‘an habitue’ (2,8)

6. Back at sea (5)

7. Tying up: it’s really bad weather (7)

8. The stab that ended it all? (4,7)

10. Air for twenty-four hours (5,3,3)

12. A lot of over-seas luggage (5)

14. Fair give one a wigging about a minor complaint! (6,4)

17. Put out the children (5)

18. Taking the dead man to, afterwards (5,2)

20. Are bank orders given by them? (7)

22. Make an opening for him (5)

24. Turn and point at the woman (4)

27. It may contain food or money (3)

SOLUTIONS TO PUZZLE

No 1149

ACROSS: 1 Right back. 8 Incisor. 9 Tea time. 10 Spartan. 13 Resolute. 14 Note. 16 Discharged. 20 Ashy. 22 Vera. 24 Maintained. 28 Undo. 29 Strangle. 31 Sonnets. 34 Loiters. 35 Obscure. 36 Presented.

1 Retired. 2 Grasses. 3 Twill. 4 Abettor. 5 Kids. 6 Liar. 7 Grandly. 11 Pundit. 12 Ties. 15 Taxi. 17 Ice. 18 Clan. 19 Almost. 21 Hie. 22 Version. 23 Ruin. 25 Natalie. 26 Neglect .27 Dressed. 30 Alive. 32 Nick. 33 Step.

DOWN:

WINNERS TO CROSSWORD 1149

R100 – Tania van Niekerk

R50 – Marilyn Siebörger; Marianne Reichardt; Peter Krige