Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 110
A Puzzle by Isla
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
You all loved Isla’s debut puzzle, but that was over a year ago. I have persuaded him to have another go, and I’m sure you will enjoy this one just as much.
The puzzle
A Puzzle by Isla
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 | Hello sailor! With saucy opening, seizes ship (7) | 1 | Talk tediously of instrument (4) | |
| 5 | Elaborate, no longer simple (7) | 2 | Absorbed in music, one succumbs in the centre of hot tub (7) | |
| 9 | Unsure, I fit certain component backwards, a diode perhaps? (9) | 3 | Rise in chapter and branch (5) | |
| 10 | Carry around a good red pen (5) | 4 | Ignore workers to make clothing for moguls (3,5) | |
| 11 | Slyly break a trapeze – Aussie goes flying? (5,8) | 5 | Each river to increase muck in canal (6) | |
| 13 | Missiles shot inside temporary shelters (8) | 6 | Welcoming paradise at last, infidel shot in elaborate ceremony (9) | |
| 15 | Output from sewer starts to stink terribly and it makes you scratch (6) | 7 | I ran amok with mental illness (7) | |
| 17 | Heavy attack after end of shelling claims five (6) | 8 | Employees in the dark about close of plant, impending relocation (5,5) | |
| 19 | Ride in a Roller? Preposterous… (buys Ford) (8) | 12 | Coach gives support to players (5,5) | |
| 22 | He gets benefit, pocketing entire global float (6,7) | 14 | Polite behaviour and extraordinary quiet between back-to-back films (9) | |
| 25 | No score for musicians (5) | 16 | Coolly demolished question included for formal discussion (8) | |
| 26 | Used to be pretty without being absolutely gorgeous (9) | 18 | Wanton harlot lay back regularly in US city (7) | |
| 27 | Most sophisticated American rejected a singlet (7) | 20 | Takes out tack, for instance bread roll and escargots, though no starters (7) | |
| 28 | Left embraced by even Vice President of Russia (7) | 21 | Wretched sailor caught in stream (6) | |
| 23 | Oxford college that is replacing answer in exam (5) | |||
| 24 | Pale swallowing drug, try to break habit (4) |