Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 030
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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Foreword
Welcome to the thirtieth 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 | |||
| 1/10 | Brittle antagonist organised wannabes’ show (8,3,6) | 1 | Reputedly Friar Tuck’s show house? (3,7) | |
| 5 | Greek character ran back before finding site of temple (6) | 2 | Keen on cornering, racer initially makes a start (5) | |
| 10 | See 1 | 3 | A service returned in the distance (4) | |
| 11 | Bonus disclosed by Wessex trains (5) | 4 | New man heading off to see relative (5) | |
| 12 | Nothing in memory box perhaps (4) | 6 | Crock sheep-hand (4) | |
| 13 | Man in pub returns for therapy (5) | 7 | Byzantine Prior up to get jumble (9) | |
| 14 | Theatre warehouse wants to spoil mafioso (3) | 8 | Address publicity for computer (4) | |
| 18 | Great to understand that negative produces film (8,7) | 9 | Angry crime (8) | |
| 21 | Queasier single I re-recorded for singer (7,8) | 15 | Middle Eastern force supports terrorists (5) | |
| 22 | Servant quietly departs in time (3) | 16 | Swore that Iron Duke supported serfs evenly (5) | |
| 23 | Barchester chaplain’s a rake (5) | 17 | Western drug production (5,5) | |
| 25 | Graduate returns second rounds (4) | 19 | Cable’s measure, “I urge wage review” (4,5) | |
| 30 | Group East End bird calls on the phone (1-4) | 20 | Provokes society to luxury (8) | |
| 31 | Star has box containing article for Sarkozy in conservatory (3,6) | 24 | Bear’s father and father follows… (5) | |
| 32 | Ford’s range (6) | 26 | …mother touring a province for excitement (5) | |
| 33 | Young boy with yen to stifle a singer (4,4) | 27 | Working, not working it’s a liability (4) | |
| 28 | Drivers return to collect final character for Bulgarian leader (4) | |||
| 29 | Inquisitive inventor losing head is upset (4) |
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