Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 041
A puzzle by Gazza
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Foreword
Welcome to the forty first in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have a special treat – a debut puzzle from our very own Gazza. After a string of wins in the DIY COW clue writing competition, Gazza has been persuaded to set a whole puzzle – and it’s a cracker!
The puzzle
A puzzle by Gazza
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 | Consignment to Scottish island involves end of pier introduction for organised traveller (7,7) | 2 | Boldly soliciting vice round Greek island (9) | |
| 10 | Again select front-runner after set-back (5) | 3 | Small car park is out of order (5) | |
| 11 | Many a drug smuggler embraced bird, you’d heard (9) | 4 | Extravagant musing may result in building with lots of bars (9) | |
| 12 | Old president starts to eschew all drink (4,3) | 5 | Plant built afresh after head of oil company is replaced by its no. 2 (5) | |
| 13 | Full of colour, young female friend? (7) | 6 | One-dimensional international body leads to Ireland adopting original scheme (9) | |
| 14 | Middle America is rocked by wrongdoing (5) | 7 | Nice night follows a cold-weather race (5) | |
| 16 | Most exquisite stone inset loses nothing in translation (9) | 8 | Milk deliverer imprisons lady at that place (7) | |
| 19 | Good, good late answer for old ham producer (3,6) | 9 | Language of a top-drawer writer (6) | |
| 20 | Extra insurance covers periods of bad weather (5) | 15 | Shoulder decoration Pyrenean town permitted in Summer there (9) | |
| 22 | Latte drunk in silence and secrecy (7) | 17 | Deep-rooted reform without an end to malpractice is dead in the water (9) | |
| 25 | Is somebody talking about you in the vicinity? (7) | 18 | French singer who was in no way sorry? (5,4) | |
| 27 | Drawn out nervous tension consumes former partner (2,7) | 19 | Temporary bypass in gridlock is only partial solution (7) | |
| 28 | Pandemonium when English poet is announced (5) | 21 | You can’t miss this model (6) | |
| 29 | Forbidding measure of drink to key workers at night (9,5) | 23 | Pipe cleaner? (5) | |
| 24 | Hair colouring taken up to some extent by Anne Hathaway (5) | |||
| 26 | Non-British outpost where cowboys operate (5) |
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