Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 014
A Puzzle by Prolixic & Tilsit
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Foreword
Welcome to the fourteenth in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have a timely puzzle jointly compiled by Prolixic and Tilsit.
The puzzle
A Puzzle by Prolixic & Tilsit
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| Across | Down | ||
| 1 | Part of lyre became able to raise a tune in the Middle Ages (5) | 1 | Improve picture of outreach working without one (7) |
| 4 | Extraordinary romance with 27 created 17 24 (7) | 2 | African workers support prohibition (5) |
| 9 | Endlessly exploit and shock (4) | 3 | Double line stroke, one frequently found in tennis? (7) |
| 10 | One relies on these investments? (4,6) | 5 | Demanding old flame leaves stand-in (6) |
| 11/12 | Malcontents need Ulster Unionists’ instability for the essence of 17 24 (6,7) | 6 | Once and for all, disturbing banter’s fulsome (9) |
| 13 | I’m the sort that changed reduced working conditions (5,4) | 7 | From first to last, solicitors unfortunately remain too long. (7) |
| 15 | Service worker lost heart (4) | 8 | High fliers’ song by Lionel Richie’s band (3,10) |
| 16 | See record return for run (4) | 14 | Ape men try swinging for satisfaction (9) |
| 17/24 | Voting in Roman election rigged to achieve this? (9,10) | 16 | Brake fails to start, it’s confidential information. (3-4) |
| 21 | Informal praise for the road to success? (3,2,2) | 18 | Unethical he isn’t, deranged maybe (7) |
| 22 | Biblical widow describes park cleaner (6) | 19 | I’m thinking, due to fix for wife (7) |
| 24 | See 17 | 20 | Part of iliac or nearby membrane that can be transplanted (6) |
| 25 | Jump over container (4) | 23 | It’s not right disrupting exercise on this? (5) |
| 26 | Remove clothing, for example, and in return find parts nudists have hidden! (7) | ||
| 27 | Starts to Conservative – Liberal electoral gerrymandering given support for 4 in 17 24 (5) |