Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 044
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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Foreword
Welcome to the forty fourth in our series of weekly puzzles.
Fresh from having his first puzzle published in the Church Times, Prolixic is back 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 | Confuse the Spanish for shellfish (6) | 1 | Service area killing (8) | |
| 4 | A state line’s not hostile (8) | 2 | Special vintage can finally repay study (8) | |
| 9 | Crisp range packaging released (6) | 3 | Indian messengers fail to start for ages (4) | |
| 10 | Overwrought if centre’s destroyed (8) | 5 | One wielding a stick perhaps scarred minor dreadfully (6,6) | |
| 12 | Tricks hospital after leader quits (4) | 6 | Against Georgia’s party line (5) | |
| 13 | Doctor nearly arrived with books for cure (10) | 7 | Stronger ale consumed by abstainer. Just the opposite (6) | |
| 15 | Have a tantrum over new cooker (5) | 8 | Mention supporting old charge (6) | |
| 16 | Country welcomes king and its former president (6) | 11 | I believed art represented thinking (12) | |
| 20 | Mother leaves curry for each new person in East Asia (6) | 14 | Setter’s second note (4) | |
| 21 | In imitation of stern queen (5) | 17 | Heartless leading cleric’s horse (4) | |
| 24 | Over-regulated secure investments (4-6) | 18 | Poison’s a complex protein (8) | |
| 26 | I leave capital seat (4) | 19 | Karma men take in for defence (8) | |
| 28 | Arcane Central American on broken toes (8) | 22 | m-material lifted to become visible (6) | |
| 29 | Superficial profile about the Italian (6) | 23 | Old man cracked nut (6) | |
| 30 | Avoid team’s reflective sulk (8) | 25 | The media may be regularly perverse over a hint of scandal (5) | |
| 31 | Engineers supplied ease (6) | 27 | Girl’s on-line transaction (4) |