Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 112
A Puzzle by Hieroglyph
+ – + – + – + – + – + – + – +
Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This week we have another puzzle from Hieroglyph. While there is no actual theme, a number of the clues are linked to other clues.
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 | 8s are found amongst crabs in the sea (9) | 1 | Love trouble – Romeo’s head over heels, at heart (5) | |
| 6 | Shop around for spice (4) | 2 | 6 ac. is into S&M – merciless character’s an exemplification (7) | |
| 8/9 | Cryptic crossword with 6 ac., 12, 20, 23, and 24 briefly in prison (8,6) | 3 | Snare 23, having picked up scent outside? (5) | |
| 10 | Characterise evidence of shark dwelling in river (6) | 4 | Scribbled the I.O.U. around the start of Dragon’s Den (7) | |
| 11 | Sin may be of 23’s vocation (8) | 5 | South American private investigator, caught one on the basis of investigation? (9) | |
| 12 | Told to serve food for mass (6) | 6 | Reads through applications (7) | |
| 15 | Arduous book about painting (8) | 7 | Payment before golfer drops one at the last – top of leader-board’s under par (9) | |
| 16 | Weapon made from fissile material (8) | 13 | Actress – new 6 ac. in play for old people (9) | |
| 19 | Starters of Northern Irish beurre blanc lobster, eaten in a bite (6) | 14 | Instructive ablution – it’s splashed when 20’s absconded (9) | |
| 21 | Putting on idiot to show hesitation in goal-mouth (8) | 17 | Separate, like a couple of foreign articles (7) | |
| 22 | Poet often seen with economist in Buckinghamshire (6) | 18 | Artist’s papers omitted from collection of Coleridge (2,5) | |
| 24 | Girl’s fellow catches fish (6) | 20 | Country tramp pockets marbles, dropping an unknown number (7) | |
| 25 | Headphone echo’s a recipe for disaster (8) | 22 | Revolutionary’s hurt having a bath, letting out an expression of contempt (5) | |
| 26 | Airhead touching Rudolf’s nose, following return of St. Nicholas? (4) | 23 | Monster truck award? (5) | |
| 27 | One who performs with pride (4-5) |