Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 093
A Puzzle by Alchemi
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have our second puzzle from Alchemi (and there are more in the pipeline!).
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.
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| 1 | Writer to copy in Kent and Surrey (6) | 1 | Rewriting top hymns is not for this composer (10) | |
| 4 | Breaking toe in collapsed scrum, one will want attention (8) | 2 | Gather around mountain peak for second draft of chart (5) | |
| 9 | Bucolic West Country mother metres away (9) | 3 | Extra! Extra! Superman begins to sleep! (3-4) | |
| 11 | Curvy perch eats tuna guts (5) | 5 | Extremely foolish to say lip study is wrong (7,6) | |
| 12 | Tear up heavy paper then fret about the optimum result (5,4,5) | 6 | S4C traffic disrupted by import duties (7) | |
| 14 | Several sopranos slink on stage, holding back great Princess Turandot (7) | 7 | Cheese possibly first made at river mouth (9) | |
| 16 | Rooney’s complicated choice (3,2,2) | 8 | Naughty old Penny in a Marseille street (4) | |
| 17 | Quiet one has pointless answer quickly (7) | 10 | 560 old records (7-6) | |
| 19 | Public transport for each walker (7) | 13 | A recording to be edited (10) | |
| 21 | Tell all about mischievous naked chimp and make the man go away (4,3,7) | 15 | Omits what trees have in summer (6,3) | |
| 24 | Trail a line after opponent’s last dice-throw (5) | 18 | Fences restrain pair of monkeys needed for canoe trip (7) | |
| 25 | Taking on fluid in a hot dry waste (9) | 20 | Publicly praise a top cop going to US city to meet heads of international mafia (7) | |
| 26 | Stupidest touts get embroiled with Seb (8) | 22 | Freezing up, what ‘Oratio Nelson didn’t say about a ship on the horizon (5) | |
| 27 | Vow of silence may even form betrothal (6) | 23 | Contained in carrot tops and roses (4) |