Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 108
A Puzzle by Bufo
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
It’s been nearly a year since Bufo’s last NTSPP puzzle – but it was worth the wait!
The puzzle
A Puzzle by Bufo
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 | Looking after military position (11,4) | 1 | Rings husband. That’s nice! (3) | |
| 9 | What causes locks to become stiff? (4,3) | 2 | See stars and end up with black eyes (7) | |
| 10 | Where the Hoosiers can be found working on a Paul Anka number (7) | 3 | Former England cricket captain takes part in very brief sporting event (7) | |
| 11 | State capital not on a river (5) | 4 | Portslade turns out to be somewhere that inspired a poet (9) | |
| 12 | Pensioners smothered in brownish-grey form of talc (9) | 5 | Current Internet domain name for companies on a holiday island (5) | |
| 13 | Lost all hope of French head of state having made an agreement to abstain (9) | 6 | Crazy about pretty girls, he’s going for those with no clothes on (7) | |
| 16 | Tasty selection from Tsushima or Yatsushiro? (5) | 7 | They speak of men eaten by animals (7) | |
| 18 | Large architectural feature made of wood (5) | 8 | Actress in great need is suffering (11) | |
| 21 | “Teletubby with pension irregularity” reveals writer showing malice (6,3) | 11 | Game in which king plays a part in tight victories (11) | |
| 24 | Recalled no law restricting Kathleen’s charity event (9) | 14 | Announcement of the best film (3) | |
| 26 | What bullfighting fans do in a Yorkshire town (5) | 15 | Purified water is indeed nothing new (9) | |
| 27 | Well-known entertaining centre-half scored (7) | 17 | Sub shelled by Royal Navy vessel (3) | |
| 28 | Capital city where silly season is around the beginning of July (3,4) | 19 | Like a desk where Internet user, with head lowered, gets on top of work (7) | |
| 30 | Splendid managers such as provide no resistance (15) | 20 | How might you get this girl warmed up? (7) | |
| 22 | Like some food that’s rotted in cargo (7) | |||
| 23 | In favour of rock star working for nothing? (3,4) | |||
| 25 | Electricity generated using a mixture of dry hydrogen and oxygen (5) | |||
| 29 | Golfer getting legless every now and then (3) |