Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 039
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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Foreword
Welcome to the thirty ninth in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week Prolixic entertains us again.
The puzzle
A Puzzle by Prolixic
There is an interactive version of the puzzle here.
If you prefer your puzzles on paper, a pdf of the puzzle an be downloaded from the interactive version.
| Across | Down | |||
| 1 | Dry ice cadets supply (9) | 1 | Small robot gives ancient priest a change of heart (5) | |
| 6 | Important exams are unfinished (5) | 2 | Comedy hits, correct? (9) | |
| 9 | Careless girl quits broadcasting (2,3) | 3 | Transporter for one infectious old lady? (7,3) | |
| 10 | Governor returns a gun to head of regiment (9) | 4 | Fool gets to annoy one in vacuous greeting (3,4) | |
| 11 | Different underworld god holds two edged sword (10) | 5 | Geordie returns to work hard and join… (7) | |
| 12 | Mere water obtained from Quatar nightclub (4) | 6 | … overseas winger for swindle (4) | |
| 14 | Settlers from corrupt regimes (7) | 7 | Old art returns dividend? (5) | |
| 15 | Endlessly cautious about steel drum or drums (7) | 8 | Satyr, 9, dissected cow (9) | |
| 17 | Remove end before firing? (4,3) | 13 | Awful ape-men I act to free (10) | |
| 19 | Thoughtful dear old husband leaves (7) | 14 | Suddenly without secretary men start to err (9) | |
| 20 | Imitate regular email to setter (4) | 16 | Young girl’s head drops having joints somewhere on board (9) | |
| 22 | Ramesses in desperate attempts, falling just short of the mark? (4,6) | 18 | Masters flogging timeshare he vacated (7) | |
| 25 | Oscar managed corporation with a new primate (9) | 19 | Dad allegedly cut vegetable (7) | |
| 26 | Order a railway announced (5) | 21 | Complains one is in battlefield (5) | |
| 27 | Take action on measure and succeed (5) | 23 | Giovanni’s come back over unknown council (5) | |
| 28 | Declaration of one in a hurry made its mark (9) | 24 | Essentially feel good returning stare! (4) |
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