Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 035
A Puzzle by Biddle
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Foreword
Welcome to the thirty fifth in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have a puzzle from Biddle that has a dig at my grumbles about certain answers that used to appear regularly in older Saturday Prize puzzles!
The puzzle
A Puzzle by Biddle
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Additionally there is an interactive version of the puzzle here
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1 | South American cowboy coming from part of Nazi Germany – chop chop! (6) | 2 | William IV’s consort, with fresh idea after new 9 (8) | |
5 | Types of water in Red River valleys (7) | 3 | Something long and brown in some ice cream – it smells attractive! (7) | |
9 | Timber trade (4) | 4 | Cocktail of port and gin on a layer of eggs (9) | |
10 | Originally pure rock operation producing salt (10) | 5 | George has chart with unknown message – it could tell us about the Downs (9,6) | |
11 | Carter runs after joker who’s departed (8) | 6 | Actress, who sounds like general on her side in famous movie (5) | |
12 | House by Arabian hills, where tourists might stay (6) | 7 | Lace egg held by former defence minister (7) | |
13 | Refer to notice (6) | 8 | Pay for a piece of furniture (6) | |
14 | Sausage Italian merchant brought to American City (6) | 15 | Cheesy-sounding jockey? Just the reverse! (9) | |
17 | Races around city with lots of people – unknown number (6) | 16 | She was seen just before bedtime on famous roundabout (8) | |
19 | Inspire trendy follower of Tottenham on the tube (6) | 18 | Twists, or kind of knot (7) | |
22 | Journeys with new beginning finding us familiar places (6) | 20 | Medic wearing period golf hat (7) | |
24 | The lady’s right again – for good! (8) | 21 | Sir is up for tweed (6) | |
25 | Soap actor with equipment on radio (7,3) | 23 | It’s Italian and white but contains nothing (5) | |
26 | Bone turned over in Italian lunch (4) | |||
27 | Theatre performer’s son, swallowing egg (7) | |||
28 | Mock pieces for cheap dealers (6) |
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