Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 077
Rivals by Radler
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have a themed puzzle from Radler. If, having revealed the theme, you need help then look here.
The puzzle
Rivals by Radler
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| Across | Down | |||
| 7 | Mob TV presenter and racing driver (3,4) | 1 | He could be a tad sly hogging road (9) | |
| 9 | Pat takes his lead at the finish (7) | 2 | Rain’s not advanced east to cause washout (5) | |
| 11 | Stepped over us before with strides (9) | 3 | Hymn replacing original’s not popular (6) | |
| 12 | Office workers largely appeal to head of Sales (5) | 4 | Charlotte possibly not half so sweet (4) | |
| 15 | Inversion of time or space (4) | 5 | Problem that isn’t talked about (4) | |
| 16 | What’s too complicated for Rufus’s companion? (8) | 6 | Gets on as image somehow shows (4) | |
| 19 | Rally champion’s low ebb after losing finals (4) | 8 | Gruesome possibility, 26 with one lopped off (7) | |
| 21 | People’s careers (5) | 10 | System equals mass (3) | |
| 22 | Slip away after the Spanish left for recess (4) | 13 | Former leader of RBS in thanks for bonus (5) | |
| 24 | Jazz fan’s tastes may indicate middle of the road (4,4) | 14 | Shows off foremost of ships in fleet (6) | |
| 26 | Do they sing treble? (4) | 16 | Result of starting to strain after rest’s ordered (6) | |
| 28 | H for honours? (5) | 17 | Wife’s lacking good taste being topless and wild (5) | |
| 31 | Film re alcohol abuse (5,4) | 18 | Muscular individual romps home after training (9) | |
| 32 | Scavenger exposes romp after defamatory allegations (7) | 20 | Sergeant’s report (5) | |
| 33 | Miss competing with worst and best (7) | 23 | Good schoolboy swaps RE to become boy racer (7) | |
| 25 | Wherein a smidgeon of solitude and peace can be found (6) | |||
| 27 | Letters, the last of them offensive (5) | |||
| 28 | 20 and Mob’s car (4) | |||
| 29 | Like Max, oddly lacking friends (3) | |||
| 30 | Brothers driving girls around (4) | |||
| 31 | Book lazy driver (4) |