Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 115
“Lonely, Single & Broke” by Nina
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Foreword
Welcome to the latest in our series of weekly puzzles.
This special puzzle has been prepared for those attending the Northern S&B meeting and it has kindly been made available to us. In order to successfully complete the puzzle the instructions must be followed to the letter after entering all of the answers – but, be warned, a certain amount of “local knowledge” is required for this step.
The puzzle
“Lonely, Single & Broke” by Nina
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.
On April 21st, Nina dumped her 10 of a husband, checked her diary, compiled a crossword, got 2 and made her lonely — and expensive — way from South London to her first Sloggers & Betters get-together, taking with her this commemorative puzzle to test out on those present. There she informed them that after completing the puzzle, (i) eighteen (15 + 3) squares (including the two shown) had to be highlighted, and (ii) twenty-eight further squares (30 minus the two shown), appropriately treated, so as to leave one answer suitably isolated from the others.
| Across | Down | |||
| 7 | Take in, at one time or another, stuff Angel’s served by me (3,8,4) | 1 | Thursday in bed for the audience clapping producers? (7,6) | |
| 9 | Well done to a hooligan with tins making a collection for the library (15) | 2 | Work ethic? Ban passenger on board (2,3,3) | |
| 10 | Charged overweight old cow with old pledge to introduce old tax (6,7) | 3 | So Will’s in power? I’m hanging about! (7) | |
| 11 | Protection for weapon that 3 woman may reveal to men looking back? (5) | 4 | Like Scarborough Fair’s parsley portent? (7) | |
| 13 | Mineral/earth? (3) | 5 | Offensive for Edmund Blackadder (parts 1&2) at function time (8) | |
| 15 | Disparate mass leaving Yorkshire town (5) | 6 | “Bolt from the blue” is awfully feeble reason University put forward (13) | |
| 16 | Sickly looking, here the host is all clear for probing instrument (7) | 8 | Part of leg initially obscured by not completely naked gymnast’s gear (4,3) | |
| 19 | Terribly blasé about drugs being open to inspection? (7) | 12 | Vestment donated by local bishop (3) | |
| 21 | Song follows incongruous rap about independent broadcasting (7) | 13 | “I drink” — a joke! (3) | |
| 24 | Disorganised cruising (2,3) | 14 | Being told to phone home, write a letter (3) | |
| 25 | Hats off to old Dr Fox! (3) | 15 | Poseurs making regular contributions to poets higher up (3) | |
| 26 | Air passage? I’ll say! (5) | 17 | Eventually, you will require a rubber (3) | |
| 29 | 14 or 27? Some like noticing full measures of G&T? (5,6) | 18 | Metal’s obtained from it up North (3) | |
| 20 | Crack beat, short of acid (6) | |||
| 22 | Metallic-sounding output from author interrupting work steadily (6) | |||
| 23 | Right to be upwardly-mobile in new area of the capital (6) | |||
| 27 | 50% departin’ the country… (3) | |||
| 28 | …and, for the rest, champagne?! (3) |