Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 027
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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Foreword
Welcome to the twenty seventh in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have yet another excellent puzzle from Prolixic.
The puzzle
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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| Across | Down | |||
| 1 | Awfully quaint insolence is of no value (15) | 1 | Arrangement of people in parade in one country (15) | |
| 9 | Ran over edge and fell (7) | 2 | Sonny’s partner catches one small horse flea (7) | |
| 10 | Ebenezer’s clerk has no right to receive a reprimand (5,2) | 3 | Terrible prince inherits kidney disease (9) | |
| 11 | I may be found back in posh car, OK? (5) | 4 | Burlesque fails to start and finish (3,2) | |
| 12 | A prior artist (9) | 5 | In principle, Heisenberg may have felt this (9) | |
| 13 | I am confused about speaker’s suspension of payments (9) | 6 | Two metals rejected in small explosive (5) | |
| 15 | Passage found through American alleyway (5) | 7 | Scotsman describes new smell as brutal (7) | |
| 16 | Approaches wild man-eaters wanting mate (5) | 8 | Taken a thrilling production for imaginative association (7,8) | |
| 18 | Sort of comb used for thin crown? (4-5) | 14 | Judge hears you are quiet about bisexual revamp (9) | |
| 20 | Plant breeder regularly follows program (5,4) | 15 | Agricultural machine – it cannot go astray without acceleration (6,3) | |
| 23 | Working repeatedly, I may be found in old rocket (5) | 17 | S-soldier is put in anti-tank unit for political ends (7) | |
| 24 | Dana International perhaps performing Salieri (7) | 19 | The art form in Maori gaming (7) | |
| 25 | Pashtan maybe found one on some hound? (7) | 21 | English lime propagated for fragrant resin (5) | |
| 26 | Nevertheless deny using your authority (15) | 22 | Particular old book’s unfinished (5) |
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