Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 087
A Puzzle by Alchemi
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have a new setter.  Alchemi was recommended by Jetdoc (Mrs Elgar) so you know it is going to be an excellent puzzle.
The puzzle
A Puzzle by Alchemi
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 | Clumsy egghead with tiny wrists – not an unknown but a close relation (4,6) | 1 | Race held in Wyatt Earp’s town (4) | |
| 6/25 | The middle people carrier is very fine (8) | 2 | Clever American soldier no use in melee (9) | |
| 10 | Odd bits dropping off mangy gorgon cause conflict (5) | 3/9 | Leonard Nimoy beckons his master, strangely responsible for 1d 22 21 (6,8,3,3,8) | |
| 11 | It’s improving to decapitate and chop up dancing hen (9) | 4 | Saturate the French church tower (7) | |
| 12 | Crime agency gets first note about small textual additions (14) | 5 | Former prince cleans out empties and breathes out (7) | |
| 14 | Chiefs of Sussex Constabulary officially press for punishment (7) | 7 | I moan about essential acid (5) | |
| 15 | Member of mugging gang will stare me out (7) | 8 | Doctor rigs arrest of doctors (10) | |
| 17 | In radio interview, you say what this footballer’s personal problem is (7) | 9 | See 3 | |
| 19 | Rabble-rouser ties basic teaching in a knot (7) | 13 | Find nothing abnormal when reading about beginning of uprising (2,3,5) | |
| 20 | Cannot get round Tory son and heir perhaps, not to be countenanced (14) | 16 | Memory returning, dotty earl is predisposed to lecture about behaviour (9) | |
| 23 | Worsening gout foils alien hunter (9) | 18 | Sauron’s footsoldiers concealed inside flowers (7) | |
| 24 | Almost last, therefore catch with rope (5) | 19 | Dog’s Glaswegian neckwear (7) | |
| 25 | See 6 | 21 | Old coin changes hands for comic (5) | |
| 26 | Give me those gaspers or I am hiding the holy water basins! (10) | 22 | Furniture typical of sporting body (4) |