Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 069
Menagerie by Radler
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have a delightfully themed puzzle from Radler. Both Prolixic, who test solved it, and I agree that this one is at the easier end of the Radler spectrum, so why not give it a go?
The puzzle
Menagerie 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 | Potentially manage “la lingua” (of all other across solutions) (6,8) | 2 | Workout rule, gain with a pain (9) | |
| 10 | Harry and Henry’s circle excluding the Queen (5) | 3 | Female and two males (5) | |
| 11 | Charlie’s seat (3) | 4 | Find out roughly, nearly but not quite (5) | |
| 12 | Fool goes off over love (5) | 5 | Man shouted, perhaps making way for supermarket trolley (5) | |
| 13 | Fashion accessory, final item on agenda rejected (3) | 6 | Endless busy challenge (4) | |
| 14 | Devil’s back, you must follow religious man (6) | 7 | Farewell look inside… Eureka! (5) | |
| 16 | Quickly run miles away from women’s quarters (4) | 8 | Sheep and pet horse’s condition (3-4) | |
| 18 | One’s up late having illicit thing to sell (9) | 9 | Not any old block, one from Egypt (6) | |
| 22 | Island accommodating hotel for swindler (5) | 15 | Wow, Ringo’s hot! (3) | |
| 24 | Crook, chiefly narcotics, spikes alcoholic drink (6) | 17 | Land using quasi airfield strip (4) | |
| 25 | Jerks go out with anoraks (9) | 19 | Peter not keeping quiet about Araucaria? (4) | |
| 28 | Lead around shops (4) | 20 | Box ’ear (3) | |
| 30 | Be evasive with support for artist (6) | 21 | Perception of state (3) | |
| 34 | Exchanged notes on divine plague (3) | 23 | Since remaining ale, drunk a lot (1,4,4) | |
| 36 | Outwits by intercepting enemies (5) | 24 | Shot at, but stops flatulence returning? (7) | |
| 37 | Copy peanuts? (3) | 26 | Letter about drug, say (3) | |
| 38 | One predicting future, taking time to provide tip (5) | 27 | Romantic like Baron of Clapton? (6) | |
| 39 | Film act between pervert and minor (6,8) | 29 | Deadly beast trapped by nervous movement (5) | |
| 31 | Beast’s zeal departs (5) | |||
| 32 | Bomb stokes misery (5) | |||
| 33 | Composer’s wasted half (5) | |||
| 35 | Go slow, crossing borders for city (4) |
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