THE ORIGINAL SOUTH AFRICAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 Fright as skirt even gets one

kwacha (5)

4 Put glove in reach, close to bed

(9)

9 Praise one working after X takes

over area (9)

10 Demon carry-back over - hotel

gets nothing (5)

11 Ray eats river fish (5)

12 Drill in until Ecca shale (9)

13 A very quiet death, and a very

long time in addition (10) 15 W.A.S.P. into Foreign Exchange

(4)

18 Drug details (4)

19 Overlooks depth with strange

rise, and drags around (10) 21 Retreats into greeting ‘Die Man’

oddly with silly sway (9)

22 I, at fifty-one, get promotion

that is epic (5)

24 “Born in outskirts of Soekmekaar” produces funny grin (5)

25 Travelling, one can net nothing in

after time (9)

26 Appearance comes to doctor

left in meeting with the dead (9) 27 Cover very first firm (5)

Down

1 Vermin get up on table right out

at sea (9)

2 Make up or return to gigantic

husband no more (5)

3 An A1 mask floating in river (8) 4 Making ‘illegal people’ protect

Ali’s cold edge and vicious heart first (15)

5 Patient chap in charge to fall over

English media (5-10)

6 Arm in good opening action,

see (6)

7 Walked endless month with Green

raising old conflict (6,3) 8 Examine model Vereeniging

accommodation (5)

14 Carried papers in fantasy (4,5) 16 Timed later mail to take

daughter out (9)

17 They fire one resting about (8) 20 “Right, get in naked at last” - girl

in tub (6)

21 Looks after detainees when time

is up (5)

23 Finally stripped altogether (2,3)