Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 086
A Puzzle by Gazza
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have another fine puzzle from Gazza.
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 | |||
| 1 | Ousted skipper has time to curse (6) | 2 | Chicken course? (5) | |
| 5 | To scratch around for a warning in latin’s no good when engaged in coitus interruptus (8) | 3 | Queen has good look round pasture (5) | |
| 9 | Explosive – it may end unstable (8) | 4 | Ronnie Kray, for one, knitted women’s clothing (7) | |
| 10 | Hacked-off Scotsman and German make merry (6) | 5 | Celebrated with lager followed by runs (7) | |
| 11 | ‘Healthy food party’ unfortunately ends with daughter knocking out son (5,5) | 6 | Determine to be member of panel assessing commercials? (7) | |
| 12 | Old Welsh striker’s feeling of euphoria (4) | 7 | Tendon injury to leg after old copper’s trip (9) | |
| 13 | Fraud claiming authorship of blog? (8) | 8 | String ’em up brigade start to change, imprisoning street thugs (9) | |
| 16 | Went delirious when caught inside (6) | 14 | Working as a guide begin to make liquid nitrogen (9) | |
| 17 | After informant flipped journalist got stabbed (6) | 15 | Oceans keep sides apart outside normal playing times (3-6) | |
| 19 | “I agree with Nick” man’s not special assistant, surprisingly (8) | 18 | Faffs about, content to edit her script (7) | |
| 21 | In times past the old hoarded gold (4) | 19 | Drove forward with knight rather than trailing rook – got repulsed (7) | |
| 22 | When it’s around the claret’s kept out of sight (10) | 20 | Handy for parting shot later on (7) | |
| 25/23 | Pansy’s ungrammatical seaside appeal? (4-2-5) | 23 | See 25 Across | |
| 26 | Middle falls out of elegant foreign novel in flimsy cover (8) | 24 | Vote for the future (5) | |
| 27 | Wrestled with a dodgy old design (8) | |||
| 28 | Jump at sound of second shot on film set (4,2) |