Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 050
Old Timers by Radler
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Foreword
Welcome to the fiftieth in our series of weekly puzzles.
The title of this puzzle by Radler is a cryptic reference to its theme.
The puzzle
Old Timers by Radler
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 | |||
| 6,18 | How? Either 28, 19+16, 8+10, 30+27, 4+27, 24Ă·15 or 22 perhaps (6,3) | 1 | Sad? Yes and no, kind of like a crusade (8) | |
| 7 | Spotted more of winter traveller clutching breast (8) | 2 | 3? (1,5) | |
| 11 | Charge nothing in trade (5) | 3 | 2? (7) | |
| 12 | Women’s defence group tracks fighters (3,6) | 4 | Spike characteristically provides cake (6) | |
| 13 | They threaten death, outrage and American casualties (11) | 5 | Resounding refusal in a treatment plant (8) | |
| 15 | No-one but Auntie’s mother? (3) | 8 | A traveller returns (3) | |
| 16 | Gwyn’s over from Llangollen (4) | 9 | It’s nothing to the French holding start of schedule up (5) | |
| 18 | See 6 | 10 | Having little to follow, time’s precious (4) | |
| 19 | Beast of a husband’s deceit (4) | 14 | Self assembly kit missing top (3) | |
| 22 | Blubber helps to make fatties obese (3) | 17 | Flirt having no boundaries, snares young lady for wrong publisher (8) | |
| 23 | Film cast presented with peerage in new production (5,6) | 18 | Shouted, STOP or there’ll be trouble (3) | |
| 26 | Dirty pot can’t keep quiet during telling off (3-6) | 20 | Start off quest breaking your divine rule (8) | |
| 28 | Pastry supplier’s second chef’s first to leave (5) | 21 | Watering holes covered by unit thereby providing pressure indicators (7) | |
| 29 | Parties showed no corruption (8) | 22 | Hit broadcast in support of kinky sex worker (5) | |
| 30 | Invested right during grim depression (6) | 23 | Pass mark upset a very large number (6) | |
| 24 | Nut having race round camp (4) | |||
| 25 | Request date and time to quit work abroad (3,3) | |||
| 27 | A lot like compass points? (3) |
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