SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 1012

Entries must reach Contest Editor SuperQuick 1012, 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 Proof, to the botanist, that vegetables communicate with each other (9)

8 For the deeply emotional, it’s great (7)

9 Naive at first, he became cold (7)

10 “Please”, you say afterwards, “come through the valley” (7)

13 The shoreline! (8)

14 Points the way home (4)

16 What you feel on seeing a dent in your new car? (10)

20 “Prune”, you say, “is a fruit” (4)

22 Give one the part thrown away (4)

24 Poorly, you repeat, or not at all educated (10)

28 Satisfied one had a home to go into (4)

29 You fill it too full for the bumpy road, love (8)

31 The foreigners again turned in the contents of the box (7)

34 Tips back into the river, notwithstanding (7)

35 Leaking, you notice, onto the paper (7)

36 Is not playing and hurts one (9)

DOWN

1 Blew the flaming whistle? (7)

2 Pat, cued wrongly, became temperamental (5,2)

3 About the time the joint’s taken to cook (5)

4 Guarantees the blockhead will take us round again (7)

5 Realising about now he’s someone very important (4)

6 Go ahead, boy: put the key in (4)

7 Myself and herself, as the Cockney said, can amble about (7)

11 Figure on getting the love bird back (6)

12 Be mad about and bring up as an Englishman (4)

15 Fight one’s triggering off with “5” (4) 17 Not Lily of the valley! (3)

18 A hill climber’s list (4)

19 Pride’s been it’s downfall (6)

21 He’s made a name for himself in painting (3)

22 There’s a reduction, miss, on the weapon (7)

23 One of those dogs that act as seeing-eyes? (4)

25 Red Ivan could be the aggressor (7)

26 I throw it back into the wood to get rid of it (7)

27 Going on and on about the man getting a send-off (7)

30 Teresa doesn’t go all out to renovate the jewellery (5)

32 Help with the correspondence? That’s kind (4)

33 Looks upstanding, too