Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 084
A Puzzle by Hieroglyph
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have another delightful puzzle from Hieroglyph.
The puzzle
A Puzzle by Hieroglyph
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 | |||
| 5 | Early 21s finding American nonsense on the internet (5) | 1 | Snatched a second-rate tape for editor (8) | |
| 6 | See 9 across | 2 | Was the man dropping three points out of condition? (6) | |
| 9/6 | Composer’s verse on a month with country singer, not the king (7,8) | 3 | Obscure band? (4) | |
| 10 | Elizabethan bicycle? (7) | 4 | Embryonic element of Minoan civilization? (6) | |
| 11 | N, E, G, A, indeed? (3,4) | 5 | Indicating acceleration and velocity in flight? (6) | |
| 12 | Remain a stranger in Eastern Europe (7) | 6 | Fruitful strokes of luck (9) | |
| 13 | XX? (6-5) | 7 | Lately, stuck? (2,5) | |
| 18 | A b-bum’s liabilities? (7) | 8 | Revolutionary at 13 (5) | |
| 20 | Get lost when rubbish is rotten (4,3) | 12 | See 22 across | |
| 22/12d | 9/6’s work could be lacking adherents (3,4,9) | 14 | We run around a couple of acres in the dark (7) | |
| 24 | Setter’s just in, say, giving up drug to get drunk? (7) | 15 | Cold war missile? (8) | |
| 25 | In shock loss? (8) | 16 | Ray’s at the National Army Museum, initially 12d … (5) | |
| 26 | Metal found in Rockall oysters? (5) | 17 | …and following a very loud disturbance (6) | |
| 19 | Grass jacket? (6) | |||
| 21 | Socialist’s great man? (6) | |||
| 23 | Spill ink on table-top and tie (4) |