Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 079
A Puzzle by Gazza
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week Gazza returns with a puzzle that has a theme – but be careful as not all is what it seems to be!
The puzzle
A Puzzle by Gazza
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 | |||
| 7 | 9 raids repulsed (5) | 1 | Repair to stove door’s postponed (5,4) | |
| 8 | How obnoxious roofer goes about making killing (9) | 2 | Are these wild dogs? – hide! (8) | |
| 10 | Determined vampire slayer introduced in scary writer’s 9 (6) | 3 | Film philosopher at work (7) | |
| 11 | Sober quality evident in Attlee and Mitterand (8) | 4 | 9’s works out at 3 (4,4) | |
| 12 | Robin, say, takes over, hugging a foreign bird (8) | 5 | 9’s reportedly confused (6) | |
| 13 | Public appeal for the old to be housed in Australia (4) | 6 | Free really odd savage (5) | |
| 15 | 9 land on head (7) | 9 | Estate car (4) | |
| 17 | Revolutionary military group adopting French word for 9 (7) | 14 | Go hot then cold, getting queasy in desert (9) | |
| 20 | 9 characters featured in works of Asimov (4) | 16 | Marginal deviation can be ominous (8) | |
| 22 | 9 jolly children in a song (8) | 18 | Python, for example, took cover in dilapidated piano (8) | |
| 25 | Rubbish golfer? A danger to kids (8) | 19 | English composer being imprisoned by French is serious (7) | |
| 26 | Inflict on 9 (6) | 21 | Exaggerate celebration after a few balls (6) | |
| 27 | Stern’s bid is floundering in the soup (5,4) | 23 | Obligatory cover-up hurts umpire (4) | |
| 28 | Ill-natured like Mrs Norris? (5) | 24 | Mounting 9 in bed could be dangerous (5) |