Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 081
A Puzzle by Chaz
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have a puzzle at the easier end of the NTSPP spectrum from Chaz.
Please note that part of the wordplay for 28 across is not in Chambers or the ODE – but it is in the SOED!
The puzzle
A Puzzle by Chaz
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.
Enjoy working out which books form the theme!
| Across | Down | |||
| 1 | Emotional art of MGM book? (6,8) | 2 | Helper-out for Bond villain on isle (3-3,3) | |
| 10 | United Nations prosecuted and ruined (5) | 3 | Hindi caste embraces language group (5) | |
| 11 | Book heartfelt songs (4,5) | 4 | Chat to healthier engineer (3,6) | |
| 12 | Coarse breathing from a pair of Greek characters inhaling nitrogen (7) | 5 | Become used to things in lesser university uprising (5) | |
| 13 | Erode each dictator holding point (3,4) | 6 | Tamil tool used to create fruit (9) | |
| 14 | A rhus or total bill (5) | 7 | To err again with, say, raw opium (5) | |
| 16 | Note pulses with average flow (much more than average flow) (5,4) | 8 | Copper’s lifting up flower, sweet stuff! (7) | |
| 19 | Book 9 or 21 for example (3,2,4) | 9/21 | Book response to “quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” (6,6) | |
| 20 | Ape short fruit (5) | 15 | Manifestation of Christ as a purgation (9) | |
| 22 | Advertising lines from film’s runner in ship (7) | 17 | Very high flier in dreadful way to lose a wicket (9) | |
| 25 | State “Henry Jones’ dog” (7) | 18 | Clan have a problem with sudden onset of snow (9) | |
| 27 | CIA scouts about for sound quality (9) | 19 | Wrongly name scam I’ll set to rights (7) | |
| 28 | Mary-Jane enthrals University College heads with clear speech (5) | 21 | See 9 | |
| 29 | Peers’ plant’s book (5,3,6) | 23 | No sullen smell (5) | |
| 24 | Capital of Valais shelters catholic heir (5) | |||
| 26 | Dished out grief to daughter (5) |