Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 008
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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Foreword
Welcome to the eighth in our series of weekly puzzles.
Prolixic, or should that be Prolific, entertains us again.
Setter’s Notes
Setting these crosswords is an eye-opener to the intricacies of constructing a puzzle. I am grateful once again to Tilsit for reining in my more wayward tendencies – I had, of course, assumed all of you would be familiar with various internet programming languages and that making logical connections from Word A to Word C via Word B would cause you no inconvenience. It is a measure of Tilsit’s thoroughness that he even raised some more questionable points with other setters. When Elgar thinks that a clue is unfair you take notice!
I hope that you have as much fun solving the crossword as I have had compiling it.
The puzzle
A Puzzle by Prolixic
If you prefer your puzzles on paper, click on the grid to download a pdf of the puzzle.
Additionally there is an interactive version of the puzzle here
| Across | Down | ||
| 1 | Gross teashop served little slugs? (9) | 1 | Feel King’s work’s beginning to ease (5) |
| 6 | Post books back for estimate (3,2) | 2 | A duplicate edited edition is submitted (7) |
| 9 | Alternative to Swiss vegetable’s a growth area (7) | 3 | Confused manatee is to come out (7) |
| 10 | Let go of pawnbroker with no grasp of English when taking first of pledges (7) | 4 | Low border (5) |
| 11 | Strategy of aged men perhaps (7) | 5 | Blindly reproduce brush style (5-4) |
| 12 | Grass cutter’s rumoured by some to be commonplace (5-2) | 6 | Tenor’s performances describe one leading character’s wiles (7) |
| 13 | Dawn has seedy, seedy time (9) | 7 | Create hospital organisation for doctor (7) |
| 15 | Twig that old Bob’s a prude (5) | 8 | Playing this gives good exercise to the heart, perhaps (4,5) |
| 16 | Go on to find some havoc curiously (5) | 13 | Healthy in full measure (9) |
| 19 | Humble man’s wearing fur, perhaps this (9) | 14 | Free spirit small girl’s to symbolize (9) |
| 22 | Cad’s hesitation before and after mistake (7) | 17 | Essential run down upset mandolin owner (7) |
| 23 | Smashed plot involving revolutionary Iran (7) | 18 | Train receipt Archdeacon swapped for loaf of bread (7) |
| 25 | Prodigal son leaving swine behind resettled in Florida resort (7) | 20 | Gilding Roman found in Portugal (7) |
| 26 | Success when given free rein in carpentry (7) | 21 | Dreadful skit about nudie oddly is the most agreeable (7) |
| 27 | Priest some French cut off (5) | 23 | Small round sail’s erected on boat? (5) |
| 28 | Hear why sturgeon at sea produce offspring (9) | 24 | Doctor and philosopher lack one piece of equipment (5) |