Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 012
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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Foreword
Welcome to the twelfth in our series of weekly puzzles.
Prolixic reaches his fourth on this site – and don’t forget he has a further puzzle on DIY COW (see the main Crosswords page for a link).
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 | Confuse – a dance album to be remastered (14) | 2 | Increase in turgidity of style (9) |
| 10 | Chef typically consumes stout (5) | 3 | Weep over empty papist’s tomb? (5) |
| 11 | Fruit display area sailor finds in Spain (9) | 4 | Public workers’ union comes back to large company over wage cut and start of lay-offs (9) |
| 12 | Mad French caper (7) | 5 | Philosopher’s only child found by river (5) |
| 13 | Moving aimlessly a large number get closer to rioting after some blood’s spilt (7) | 6 | Such pleasure is pure (9) |
| 14 | Basic instincts get one to back a fool (5) | 7 | Broken bail, one excuse for not being there (5) |
| 16 | The origin of the opium trade? (5,4) | 8 | Revealed undergraduate’s aim is to rise about noon (7) |
| 19 | The exact observance of etiquette’s strangely unpolitic (9) | 9 | Look as quiet civilian’s decapitated (6) |
| 20 | Old divine describes a heartless article (5) | 15 | Part played by Elliot dancing around Queen after end of ballet (5,4) |
| 22 | Way-out sometimes found at the end of the bar? (7) | 17 | Confirmed the German for animal food (9) |
| 25 | Take in East End trial of a stud? (7) | 18 | Such evidence perhaps excited inner vices (9) |
| 27 | Laughed at poodle man groomed (9) | 19 | Relief for needy indigent policeman? (4,3) |
| 28 | Looking back some verses omitted Old Testament prophet (5) | 21 | Mull over an abstract (6) |
| 29 | Form of dressing we rectors confused with impudence (9,5) | 23 | Father squeezes bird inside thigh! (5) |
| 24 | Principle sustained over borders of Egypt (5) | ||
| 26 | Artist grabs drunken bum for dance (5) |