Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 026
A Puzzle by Anax
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Foreword
Welcome to the twenty sixth in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have yet another excellent puzzle from Anax.
The puzzle
A Puzzle by Anax
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| Across | Down | ||
| 1 | Very bad sort of art politician does not correct (10) | 1 | Security guards on duty (9) |
| 6 | Race winner breaks this record (4) | 2 | Cry about end of stay in Paris? (7) |
| 8 | Man rejected by couple with little room for parasite (8) | 3 | Sailing vessel loads produce before shipping (3,5) |
| 9 | Back down long after American retreat (6) | 4 | A percentage off, a great deal (9,6) |
| 10 | Cheat run over – thumbs-up to that (4) | 5 | Reindeer – extremely eager (6) |
| 11 | Negotiating payout when promoted? (2,3,3,2) | 6 | Chief to condemn a boycott for centre (3,6) |
| 12 | Issue tender as ladies manage to hold one back (9) | 7 | Bird shooter will bag one on polar hunt? (7) |
| 14 | Drop nothing in front of this (5) | 13 | Assumed what’s left out of solid isn’t a liquid? (3-6) |
| 17 | Wise seabird circling island (5) | 15 | Precious jade on monarch, young one (9) |
| 19 | Potentially being a lit substance (9) | 16 | Unreliably so, I dally? (8) |
| 22 | Where keystroke is appropriately used? (6,4) | 18 | Elizabeth I (5,2) |
| 23 | Cut beef, say (4) | 20 | Was dancing serviceman heckled outside? (7) |
| 24 | Base everything on one’s inner spirit (6) | 21 | But golf, I hear, regularly appears more like sin (6) |
| 25 | Engagement ends in defeat for army and pain (8) | ||
| 26 | After cross, a goal? (4) | ||
| 27 | Spokesperson giving evidence in fraud (10) |