Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 042
42 by Anax
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Foreword
Welcome to the forty second in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week, with puzzle #42, Anax delights us with a puzzle themed on 42.
The puzzle
42 by Anax
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 | Clean clothes here, untreated pants on line (10) | 2 | Old man revolted by his lice (5) | |
| 7 | Say nothing – the doctor’s an idiot (4) | 3 | Japanese drama accepting sci-fi writer’s help (7) | |
| 9 | See 5 | 4 | Given steel cross, church opens after check (10) | |
| 10 | Barney enters chorus, being a cheat (8) | 5/9/26 | 42 6 17 friendly interviewer hasn’t even cracked (3,6,2,4,3,8,3,10) | |
| 11/17 | Old DJ but, in part, deliverer of 42 (4,7) | 6 | Leisure centre for sizeable area of Kent (4) | |
| 13/25 | Hot houses badly hurt recipient of 42 (6,4) | 7 | Weather’s wrong for wash (5,2) | |
| 15 | We will admit ring is returned by accident (8) | 8 | Troublesome modern studio in China (9) | |
| 16 | Some clothing’s colour turned water filthy? (8) | 12 | Modest about present/past Internet service, clearly (10) | |
| 18 | Symbol of nationality some citizens ignore (6) | 14 | Get wild with old Frenchman in lift (9) | |
| 20 | Travel around Australian island (4) | 17 | See 11 | |
| 21 | A thing turns into something stiff here? (8) | 19 | Stay firm (7) | |
| 24 | Strange agility, ranting as a flatterer (14) | 22 | His appeal is part singing, part songwriting, part body language (5) | |
| 25 | See 13 | 23 | Stare at good mirror (4) | |
| 26 | See 5 |
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