Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 056
A Puzzle by Prolixic
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
A speedy return for Prolixic – one or two tricky clues but a puzzle that’s well worth the effort.
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 | |||
| 9 | Architect’s car is dismantled for indicators (15) | 1 | Aircrews regularly provide desserts (4) | |
| 10 | Run on the way, way out (7) | 2 | Shock finding sloth in personnel department (4) | |
| 12 | First sign (7) | 3 | Charismatic glamour grips the web (8) | |
| 13 | Nice boyfriend is able to return by the middle of July (9) | 4 | I support sex appeal – the very thing (6) | |
| 14 | Loveless couple having first dance? (5) | 5 | Items in the press may be definite (8) | |
| 15 | Devalued communist accommodates dictator (7) | 6 | Help maintain one’s in the Queen’s place (6) | |
| 18 | Amazed by the return of some golden nutshells (7) | 7 | A branch may be long? (8) | |
| 21 | Guinea-pigs lack one somewhere underground (5) | 8 | One barracked about love may be maligned (8) | |
| 23 | A brick carrier? (9) | 11 | At that point you once drank a drop of rum (5) | |
| 25 | Deans lines on Virginia (7) | 15 | Icy perversion – too exotic for this position? (8) | |
| 26 | Take part in and finish up left out (7) | 16 | Produces photographs and enlarges (8) | |
| 29 | Unorthodox priests venerate archetypes (15) | 17 | Some land is astern! Reverse. (8) | |
| 19 | The best a crew member supported last month (8) | |||
| 20 | Level on time in heat (5) | |||
| 22 | Country reports describe some French returning (6) | |||
| 24 | Speak of city in ceremony (6) | |||
| 27 | Resent hearing short new version (4) | |||
| 28 | Without question, green and simple (4) |
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