Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 046
A Christmas Special by Prolixic
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Foreword
Welcome to the forty sixth in our series of weekly puzzles.
Prolixic has prepared a special Christmas puzzle – enjoy!
The puzzle
A Christmas Special 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 | |||
| 8 | Minister’s break down after drinking wine (6) | 1 | Festive fare – half-hearted mouse eats mushroom (5,3) | |
| 9 | Everyone’s appearing in Christmas show (8) | 2 | Robin maybe has time for good season (6) | |
| 10 | Recollected secret of no tax (4-4) | 3 | Order free spirit, not good for oxides (8) | |
| 11 | Repeatedly leading the French giving chilling evidence (6) | 4 | Member returns in heartless prank as a seasonal messenger (7) | |
| 12 | Your life’s meaning (6) | 5 | Win after a pub leaves room (6) | |
| 13 | Christ’s texting Spanish waiter (8) | 6 | Ex-soldier returns drug-free with daughter having intimate meal (2,6) | |
| 14 | Heifer’s therapy is the most effective (7) | 7 | Botanical structures found in teasel perhaps (6) | |
| 16 | Robin Goodfellow’s kind and beautiful – that is to say, special (7) | 15 | Lout’s a weed when being raised we are told (8) | |
| 20 | Ignatius perhaps called back about pilgrim (8) | 17 | Orchestra’s leader quits. Nice for him to get a chorus of praise (8) | |
| 23 | Sinister person’s story in English paper – on the contrary! (6) | 18 | Gift day (8) | |
| 25 | Tangy cheese included from an organic source (6) | 19 | Go near terribly old food additive (7) | |
| 26 | Marauder in west coast city shot first in place of execution (8) | 21 | Exceptional worker’s virus (6) | |
| 27 | African animal was nearly slaughtered (8) | 22 | Record of Van Morrison’s heard by shepherds? (6) | |
| 28 | Sing big-note regularly with me (6) | 24 | Snowman’s young embraces big teddy’s head (6) |
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