Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 089
A Puzzle by Hieroglyph
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have a tastily themed puzzle by Hieroglyph.
The puzzle
An Puzzle by Hieroglyph
There is an interactive version of the puzzle here.
Across solutions are of a kind, and lack definition.
| Across | Down | |||
| 8 | Insect leaps around inside (3,5) | 1 | Exercise can start to strain nuts (6) | |
| 9 | Hypocrisy displayed by a Liberal (6) | 2 | Particulars of plaice dish served on board (8) | |
| 10 | Spaceman or alien? (10) | 3 | Listener’s font-head appears, at first, thus; setter is intimidating (8) | |
| 11 | Made out (4) | 4 | Dear, is nothing sacred at last? (8) | |
| 12 | Playing the villain? (6) | 5 | Sunday best is a riot (6) | |
| 13 | Setter’s turned crazy (8) | 6 | Jail fashionable bird (6) | |
| 14 | Before the Spanish game (7) | 7 | Seafood obtained by priest boarding vehicle on an island (8) | |
| 16 | Smell almost like a bear (7) | 15 | Linesman, reportedly, a medical 6 (8) | |
| 20 | Elf principally found in part of Ireland (8) | 17 | Affront her unknowingly, concealing outlaw’s position (2,3,3) | |
| 23 | Until sitting, to an extent (6) | 18 | Brushes up on King’s Knight Opening to succeed (8) | |
| 25 | Iron shirt at the beginning of April (4) | 19 | Bishops caught in action replay (7) | |
| 26 | Sweet coffee? (10) | 21 | Order new starter, having dined (6) | |
| 27 | Pointless example? (6) | 22 | Oddly, third Home Guard leader being carried away in the main (6) | |
| 28 | Turn over a hundred (8) | 24 | Italian nationalist’s to revive old songs, originally beginning with these? (6) |