NTSPP – 090

Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 090

A Puzzle by Prolixic

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Foreword

Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.

This week we have another excellent puzzle from Prolixic.

The puzzle

An Puzzle by Prolixic

There is an interactive version of the puzzle here.


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1 Keep prisoners ever reformed (8) 1 Exclamation about a very black cross (6)
5 Opposing players encompass mostly stupid values (6) 2 Aristocrat in a state. Not quite! (6)
10 Forsake recklessness (7) 3 Bless a Germanic deity returning after moving North (5)
11 About to leave in a trice – perhaps this may stop you! (7) 4 Funding from volunteer’s ideal (7,7)
12 Half-hearted cry downstairs (5) 6 A possessive beneficiary is after treasure initially (5)
13 Remove a French Duke from difficulty (9) 7 Work I printed in bold (8)
14 Where a dancer and driver may be found (4,8) 8 B-ballad about feeble final performance (8)
19 Merge and turn pants and vest? (12) 9 Steep price paid for the Tibetan embassy? (4,10)
22 We hear a masterstroke lasts for sound science (9) 15 Topless tart belongs to us (3)
24 Move two rivers (5) 16 Place where judge loses spirit – quite the reverse (3)
25 Instrument in a radio car in Amsterdam (7) 17 Vagabond’s car (8)
26 Greatly admire intricate doilies (7) 18 Recommend a Scottish lawyer (8)
27 Rock & Roll support with Queen touring Thailand (6) 20 Fastidious saint supports Jewish feast after leader of movement quits (6)
28 Uranium inspection described by Edward before trial (8) 21 Drop dynamite in to kill (6)
23 Slack runner’s to contend without one (5)
24 Nothing for one in one river or another (5)

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