Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 052
A puzzle by Gazza
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Foreword
Welcome to the fifty second in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week our very own Gazza returns with a new puzzle.
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 | Part-time copper’s behind search for windfalls (6) | 1 | Cheekiest move causes it (8) | |
| 4 | Advocate staying out of the Euro? (8) | 2 | Desert giant spooked playwright (8) | |
| 9 | Scruffy peacekeepers get respectable (6) | 3 | Very early high-speed film (8,7) | |
| 10 | I had admitted being well in arrears and got cut off (8) | 5 | Hoax note takes in American (4) | |
| 12 | Skirt around a state of hostility (8) | 6 | I don’t believe it! You’re trying it on with the wrong girl! (4,3,5,3) | |
| 13 | Bar sandwiches? First round’s made fast (6) | 7 | Surprising result with bottom pair leading recovery (6) | |
| 15 | Welsh RU backs reselection of flamboyant dare-devil (12) | 8 | Bumpy ride in American car to opening of mall (6) | |
| 18 | A gnome’s irate at fault in asymmetrical arrangement (6,1,5) | 11 | Italian broadcaster coming under endless abuse after it styles Japanese mercenary (7) | |
| 21 | Makes an impression thanks to representative on board (6) | 14 | Bloodsucking American flier’s hesitation after pigeon shooting (7) | |
| 22 | Idle Hove get a terrible stuffing (8) | 16 | Lives with company procedures (8) | |
| 24 | Ready as I can be, supposedly (1,4,3) | 17 | Heat-resistant material is without equal in an emergency (8) | |
| 25 | Council challenge blocks boozer (6) | 19 | Jenny’s first to pitch in (6) | |
| 26 | Valuable collection jars are rusty (8) | 20 | Short holiday used up leave (6) | |
| 27 | Body count has us necessarily pulling back to some extent (6) | 23 | Just where 8d’s to be found (4) |
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