Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 103
A Puzzle by Alchemi
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have another excellent puzzle by Alchemi.
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 can be downloaded from the interactive version.
| Across | Down | |||
| 1 | Cold meal encourages like the devil. Not bad! (3,5) | 2 | Dugong incongruous as hunter’s help (3,3) | |
| 6 | No going back with fighting dead ahead (6) | 3 | Show disrespect eating small square vegetable (9) | |
| 9 | Fail to learn lines, although she should? (10) | 4 | Influential guitarist got pause wrong between lines (3,4) | |
| 10 | Terribly loud contest on board (4) | 5 | Shaken, subdued, I leave Lockerbie for travel around London (6-6,3) | |
| 11 | Kicking game makes foal bolt (8) | 6 | Greek airline policy Macedonia’s first problem (7) | |
| 12 | Quantity of pressure in three states (6) | 7 | Home Counties statute turned over across the border (5) | |
| 13 | Bets whichever way the second half goes, it’s a ball game (4) | 8 | Poorly fed, ran round blushing (3-5) | |
| 14 | Princess going around the city, putting pressure on that woman to make out (8) | 15 | Jekyll’s alter ego gripped by terrible cramp sees a hippo or elephant (9) | |
| 17 | Extremely agitated as foreigner starts to collapse in Crete (8) | 16 | Cheeseplant ruins my career (8) | |
| 19 | Note about mineral (4) | 18 | Things are often compared to this of a 5, an 6d 27 13, a 11 22 or 7 (3,4) | |
| 21 | Scavenger ending up in blurred image (6) | 19 | Times are mostly dreadful for conductors (7) | |
| 23 | Five-year dye mixed – it’s quite normal (8) | 20 | Heard clergyman knocking billiard balls together (6) | |
| 24 | Phone message from insistent extortioner (4) | 22 | Dark hole with central heating (5) | |
| 25 | Little space in garbled newsbite for fence-sitters (2-8) | |||
| 26 | Smelly cheese’s trace of fruit (6) | |||
| 27 | Sole motion gives instruction to former Liberal leader thrown overboard (8) |