Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 051
A puzzle by Qix
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Foreword
Welcome to the fifty first in our series of weekly puzzles.
Qix makes a quick return to the NTSPP fold with this new puzzle. He’s promised not to use triple unches in future!
The puzzle
A puzzle by Qix
There is an interactive version of the puzzle here.
If you prefer your puzzles on paper, a pdf of the puzzle an be downloaded from the interactive version.
| Across | Down | |||
| 1 & 18a | Thrashing inept scholar on rump? (8,10) | 1 | Greens house? (7) | |
| 4 | Cook gets tea made centrally (5) | 2 | Two blokes following Greek character and historic African (9) | |
| 8 | Sounded bullish about initial tryst, and proposed (6) | 3 | Port explodes; sangria – to some extent (6) | |
| 9 | Editor’s first documentary inside nuclear facility (8) | 4 | Begin to be celebrity solicitor (5,3) | |
| 11 | Second husband having ball in public went too far (8) | 5 | Very English vote to retain aristocratic leaders (5) | |
| 12 | Associate diplomat (not English) (6) | 6 | Distribute spoils with hard gangster (7) | |
| 14 | Starts to set wheels in motion for exercise (4) | 7 | Soldiers from central Armenia (3) | |
| 15 | Disheartened academics’ studying involves university, normally (2,3,5) | 10 | Overwhelm cheat with some arithmetic and English (7) | |
| 18 | See 1a | 13 | Inclined to remove last slipcover from study (7) | |
| 19 | A female Wimbledon winner? (4) | 16 | Incompetent initial scribblings rubbed out after letter to the Corinthians turned up (9) | |
| 22 | Exercises painful? That’s OK (6) | 17 | Surgery primarily considered after drug is rejected (8) | |
| 24 | Wanting to understand “The Return of the King” in French (8) | 18 | Celebrated for all to see in tree (7) | |
| 26 | In retrospect, a pillar of her community (4,4) | 20 | Volatile traitor captured by Clapton? (7) | |
| 27 | Quarter note (6) | 21 | Naysayer used to describe hosiery (6) | |
| 28 | Competed with expert getting in the way (5) | 23 | Truck from the north unloading 20% of cargo (5) | |
| 29 | Unpredictable woman gets into whips from the east (8) | 25 | Under way, having left ducks behind (3) |
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