Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 094
A Puzzle by Chaz
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have a puzzle from old friend Chaz, back again after a three-month break. There is a bit of a theme running through this one. It was new to me but I managed to work it out.
The puzzle
A Puzzle by Chaz
There is an interactive version of the puzzle here.
If you prefer your puzzles on paper, a pdf of the puzzle can be downloaded from the interactive version.
| Across | Down | |||
| 1 | Striking event (8) | 1 | Small Japanese box to plug encroachment (6) | |
| 5 | Instruction to leave ship by internet provider’s twitter (6) | 2 | Sausage-flavoured drink smothers trendy volunteers (9) | |
| 10 | Sun god drinks a martini as side dish? (5) | 3/6 | Haphazard research operations ceded odd film book by 20a, 23 (2,8,5,2,8,5) | |
| 11 | Distinctive quality of absurd non-violent environmentalism (9) | 4 | Pit in no way put him forward? (7) | |
| 12 | Act of side-stepping a vacancy in a benefice (9) | 6 | See 3 down | |
| 13 | Even left fielder recalled old computer game (5) | 7 | 20a, 23’s genre has origins in social change in foreign institutions (3-2) | |
| 14 | The French lady of the night loses direction in Pakistan (6) | 8 | Randomly emit pion from red pepper (8) | |
| 15 | Steady increment of fantasy author’s insides (7) | 9 | Bring closer to final feature (6) | |
| 18 | Crawler follows old car manufacturer and football’s inner sphere (7) | 16 | Hard two-bit choice twice encapsulating vote of the masses (3,6) | |
| 20/23d | 7 author, Prince Consort and Little Richard holding knight (6,1,4) | 17 | Possibly what to use when declining a rabid live bat (8) | |
| 22 | Questioned when board’s man met paper’s boss (5) | 19 | Formally annul law about sound of bells (6) | |
| 24 | Poet’s organ for detecting smell of bird’s tailpiece (5,4) | 20 | Sailor man died staring with amazement (3-4) | |
| 25 | Schedule sex appeal in age-lines (9) | 21 | Type of chips found in price condition (6) | |
| 26 | Splendid success in reversal of mental cessation (5) | 23 | See 20 across | |
| 27 | FiancĂ©e’s kimono ensnares Yupik? (6) | |||
| 28 | Tending to embrace a pick entering low place (8) |