Not the Saturday Prize Puzzle – 440
An Alphabetical Puzzle by Knut
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Solves the clues and enter the answers in the grid.
Each letter of the alphabet features at least once at the beginning of the grid entries
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| A | Went off to get ready to ride in The Oaks- missed the start (6) | N | Gas lighting up "Go" sign? Quite the opposite! (2,5) | ||
| B | Pat on head for naming tree (9) | O | Formerly punctual service finally pulled in (3-4) | ||
| C | Shirt-cum-tunic hem is embroidered, partly lined (7) | P | Featured every now and again by Pascal: lute (early instrument) (8) | ||
| D | Rover's early sports utility vehicles? (8) | Q | It's French silk, having regularly useable lining (6) | ||
| E | Canal dredging might help to ease this (7) | R | Scamp cut fringes off women's underwear range (6) | ||
| F | To get natural light, switch web browser components (7) | R | Denying United can seduce match official (German) (8) | ||
| G | Fitzgerald's hero, leaving America for Europe, just manages to survive (4,2) | S | Well-dressed Poles have a yen to snatch forty winks (6) | ||
| H | It impels doctor to cure Henry, patriotic old chap (11,4) | T | In which drunken gent struggles with treble notes? (3,5,7) | ||
| I | WWII Major stripped off for battle (3,4) | U | The specialist field of original gooly treatment? (7) | ||
| J | A danger to bathers in Skopje? Tsk! Illegal! (3-3) | V | 6-0! Leeds wingers: "take a bow for them" (5) | ||
| K | Lucky people who find help in Regent's Park? (7) | W | General Electric cut up about compensation (5) | ||
| K | Chinese vessel going east to west, bow very low (6) | X | Spaniard forced taxi driver to dish dirt (6) | ||
| L | Rocket starter Mike refused to eat in Bel Air apartment (6,3) | Y | Ball player, although not a Union fan, makes sporting wager (6) | ||
| M | Tiny, tiny person penning letter to Plato (6) | Z | Having focussed on Australian turn, silly mid-on catches England opener (6,2) |
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