Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 095
A Puzzle by Hieroglyph
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have a puzzle from Hieroglyph. There is a theme running through the across clues, but the clues are all independently solvable.
The puzzle
A Puzzle by Hieroglyph
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 | Actor’s an old clubber? (6) | 2 | Popular government is inherently slow (5) | |
| 5 | Actor with panties strewn around his head (8) | 3 | Brewing agent, when in still (5) | |
| 9/10 | Act, and do Bard’s theatre whilst drunk (5,3,6) | 4 | Soldiers to pay for retirement (7) | |
| 11 | Actors’ masked production said to lack operation? (3,7) | 5 | Networker’s quaint time cut short? (7) | |
| 12 | As an actor might emerge from the wings and continue? (2,2) | 6 | Allegories’ memorableness, recollected without possible reason (7) | |
| 13 | Actor’s instructor distressingly cried “Out!” – Not the done thing, right? (8) | 7 | Audience’s drive-in 1s (4-5) | |
| 16 | Actor’s time on stage makes sense, snorting cocaine (6) | 8 | Stars additional city-father (9) | |
| 17 | Actors’ tetchier extremes before publisher’s direction? (6) | 14 | Strangely prescient and showing due deference (2,7) | |
| 19/25 | Actors’ holy grail possibly revives wife with art (4-4,6) | 15 | Fitting – he’s half-joking (9) | |
| 21 | Actor ultimately starts to sing very poorly in response (4) | 18 | Enable European parliamentarian to contract debt-restructuring, to begin with (7) | |
| 22 | Actors’ run to cast in the Lords? (10) | 19 | Pelt one with donuts, oddly missed, getting angry (7) | |
| 25 | See 19a | 20 | Bloomers when Labour leader’s entertained by Soviet revolutionary (7) | |
| 26 | Actors, after work, enrolled nurse in mine? (4-4) | 23 | A short time for tea and coffee? (5) | |
| 27 | Actor at last in dubious Early English stage displays (8) | 24 | Watch repeat performances on the waves, say? (5) | |
| 28 | Acted badly in good Yeats production (6) |