Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 062
… and nonsense by Radler
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have a new themed puzzle from Radler.
Setter’s Notes
The solutions include a lot of words or phrases for absurd or foolish talk or nonsense.
The puzzle
… and nonsense 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 | Shoddy workers quantified stuff (1,4,2,8) | 1 | Keenness with Rio’s parting would be a strange thing (6) | |
| 9 | Instrument on the radio – you listen, characteristically moved (7) | 2 | Hence link following in the Sky broadcast (9) | |
| 10 | In need, requiring backing of the Northern fixer? (7) | 3 | Crash right out of 12’s first (4) | |
| 11 | Grand time for quiet stuff (4) | 4 | Discover how to defy gravity with no lifting! (4,4) | |
| 12 | Refuse place to work in, a mistake getting back (7,3) | 5 | Horny creature squandered Euro on ambiguous sexual identity (6) | |
| 13 | See 25 across | 6 | See 28 Across | |
| 15 | Shock about most of outrageous stuff (3,3) | 7 | Play time, stick around (5) | |
| 19 | Unnamed fool gets it in exception (6) | 8 | Distinguish top class over average at end of test (3,5) | |
| 20 | Take over, ringing round for lift (4,2) | 14 | Greek Lotus Eaters loiter around photo shot on island (9) | |
| 23 | Not initially romantic, sweeten with hot love round model’s back passage (10) | 16 | Paper boat folded back (9) | |
| 25/13 | Stuff down – not last – in posing pouch – not half! (4-6) | 17 | Enter house first and run into picture (8) | |
| 27 | Stalks for sweet stuff (7) | 18 | Boil balls, cruel fun! (8) | |
| 28/6d | Stuff mate in addition to optimist’s con (4,3,4,5) | 21 | Get to get mixture (6) | |
| 29 | Stuff from salesmen sensing trouble (15) | 22 | Record faces making remarks to audience (6) | |
| 24 | Continent united with another hot place (5) | |||
| 26 | Provides padding for choicest coats (4) |
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