Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 036
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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Foreword
Welcome to the thirty sixth in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week the prolific Prolixic entertains us again.
The puzzle
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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| Across | Down | |||
| 9 | Pru’s cover girl? (9,6) | 1 | Dot adopts English regime (4) | |
| 10 | React badly to the French for sentimentality (7) | 2 | Key passage heard (4) | |
| 12 | Neighbourhood lumberjack stops troublemaker (7) | 3 | These spears when thrown slice poor crabs (8) | |
| 13 | Advocate litigant takes quiet drink (9) | 4 | Sun in dull place (6) | |
| 14 | Runs form of ID for 24 perhaps (5) | 5 | Hippocampus – a rose she cultivated (3,5) | |
| 15 | Take drug I have come by (7) | 6 | Mail arrives describing member of educational establishment (6) | |
| 18 | A source of evil returns to the French King’s helper (7) | 7 | Trained in America to cram head according to Spooner (8) | |
| 21 | Impromptu advantage for American liberal (2-3) | 8 | Reminder for politician to note rule (8) | |
| 23 | Repeat run about transport (9) | 11 | Forward libertine takes last of pot (5) | |
| 25 | Argue for all to see kitchen implement (7) | 15 | Judge again research about fools (8) | |
| 26 | Feather-like brooch, elaborate, but not gold (7) | 16 | At fault, gifted copper first arrests Lord Provost (8) | |
| 29 | Giraffes’ clinics arranged without regard to personal cost (4-11) | 17 | Polish, say, found in eastern spear (8) | |
| 19 | I vote to support one on behalf of final addition (8) | |||
| 20 | Alien eats endlessly old bird (5) | |||
| 22 | Boils we hear may be black and blue (6) | |||
| 24 | Restoration theatre character (6) | |||
| 27 | Critical account I read, finally (4) | |||
| 28 | Margin of a book, not the left or right (4) |
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