Cape Argus

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Desire building to make one’s home (6)

4 Girl returning Don’s swimming suit (8)

10 Random shelling of unhappy bunker (9) 11 Wandering holy man unhappy shut inside (5) 12 Small duty performed in reading room (5)

13 The empty headed restricted by learning disability, as a rule (2,7) 14 Caught by supple vine (7) 16 Fair game to ring play centre (4-2)

20 Turbocharg­er ends under the bonnet of a fast car (3,3)

21 Nothing at breakfast but porridge (7)

24 Plug from taproom is covered in parasites (9) 26 Frauds and kidders epitomise such first timers (5)

27 Mount a foreign shore (5) 28 Marvellous devotee redressed static (9) 29 Discipline­d wordplay (of sorts) laid before editor (8) 30 Run down here as late transporta­tion? (6)

DOWN

1 Hear rumblings over empty stomach during make-over (6)

2 How may pup settle dispute with a litter-mate? (9)

3 One runs into 24 hour journal (5)

5 Skin dive endlessly and turn blue (6)

6 Headmaster is in class to deceive (9)

7 Depths of foul drain (5)

8 Pull cask out of headgear (8)

9 Be in party held together by whip and ministers (7)

15 Cow eats second, in low spirits (9)

17 Foolishly ask partner to drop a troublemak­er (9)

18 Two cuts of meat, and quickly! (4,4)

19 Pepper plants itch in sugar plants (7)

22 Fast forward through heap of garbage (6)

23 Trained spy on the revolution­ary mind (6)

25 Peer round inside farm building (5)

26 Fluorine crippled sweetheart (5)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Disengage, unfasten (6)

4 Wailing harbingers of death in Irish folklore (8)

10 Athletic supporter (9)

11 Trench (5)

12 Roman goddess of love (5)

13 Packaging material (9)

14 Star sign (7)

16 Wild canine of Africa and Asia (6)

20 Spittle (6)

21 Clay oven used in Indian cookery (7)

24 Shoulder piece on military uniforms (9)

26 Tag at the end of a shoelace (5)

27 Follower of an Iranian religion stressing the unity of mankind (5)

28 Banditry (9)

29 Imperil (8)

30 Shooting star (6)

DOWN

1 Feeling of already having experience­d the present situation (4,2)

2 Practical, industrial (9) 3 Expenses (5)

5 Measure of electric current (6)

6 Dresser (9)

7 Actor in a crowd scene (5) 8 Timetable (8)

9 Sharp fragments embedded in a rock matrix (7)

15 Abhorrence (9) 17 Wisdom, understand­ing (9)

18 Congregate (8)

19 Small baking dish (7) 22 Steady, fixed (6)

23 Horse in endurance races (6)

25 Sap-sucking insect (5) 26 Cognisant (5)

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