Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 055
Hearsay by Radler
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
Radler entertains us again with a puzzle which has an interesting theme which is suggested by the sub-title.
Setters Notes
The crossword includes a phrase (related to 5 down) which has been split across a number of separately clued solutions, each of which holds one or more words from the phrase. Some of those solutions hold two or more words that would not normally constitute a phrase in themselves.
Thank you to Prolixic for test-solving this puzzle, and for suggesting a better and more suggestive 16d than I had originally clued.
The puzzle
Hearsay 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 | |||
| 1 | Universal Cinema production featured in cryptic clue (10) | 2 | Settle down on bedding to talk amorously (4,2) | |
| 7 | Turn on radio (4) | 3 | Parasite: use wrong name to point it out (9) | |
| 9 | Doctor arrested East German for careless talk (6) | 4 | Sweep up and down (3) | |
| 10 | Stuck heading for Pole? (8) | 5 | 9 apocryphally accredited with 7ac 14 20 12 23 (7,8) | |
| 11 | Most sylphlike: perhaps Pussy Galore? (10) | 6 | Bananas eaten in lust, producing number twos (11) | |
| 13 | Johnny’s ready (4) | 7 | Against invading, so resigned (5) | |
| 14 | Seven meandering hand-free during bicycle race (5,3,4) | 8 | Northbound station commuting time to go astray but not a problem (3-5) | |
| 17 | Given what was meant by 14 20, nerd gets irritated then goes inside (12) | 12 | Our goal is “Win or get drunk”, swallowing one’s pride (4,5,2) | |
| 19 | Stole and received sentence (4) | 15 | Sweet skirt and coat (5,4) | |
| 21 | On edge in figure 20, it’s said (2,8) | 16 | Fantasise when male gets end caught in steamroller (8) | |
| 22 | Product of a generic businessman (8) | 18 | Lover’s afterthought on unknown man giving cold embrace (6) | |
| 23 | Echo Zero Charlie Echo Foxtrot? (1,5) | 20 | 13 or one of the 13 states surrounded by water (5) | |
| 24 | Grant produced every piece (4) | 23 | Individual drive back (3) | |
| 25 | Work’s dreadfully tiresome, but instrumental in determining vision (10) |
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