Across
1. Brutally killed by hit-man from New Mexico. (5,3,3)
7. Coach knocks back sandwich. (3)
9. No New England state has tea-maker or time for prayer. (7)
10. Nice wall in Asia,
somehow depicts warriors. (7)
11. It’s bad on wings
but good on cakes. (5)
12. Stock market maneuver
makes Elena grim. (9)
13. This month, without
delay! (7)
14. See 6 down.
18. Temperament of the
cosmos? (6)
20. Pens, for example,
sound like they may correct wrongs. (7)
24. Passing on of disease
by prisoner with little thanks to soldier and with no backing. (9)
26. Two states I use to
make prickly pear and peyote. (5)
27. Tee to green
measurement, for instance, using day gear. (7)
28. Talk to ref about
Swedish training method. (7)
29. Belmont’s tree. (3)
30. Mob’s accountant
needs me and your nonstandard, penniless plan to get communications company.
(5,6)
Down
1,16. Cannily odd? Been very odd couple – infamously so! (6,3,5)
2. Reading of text shows democratic process is missing the point. (7)
3. Kid Cole (no saint he) embraces saint. (9)
4. Barbaric tribe members encircling a nervous, disturbed German, at
first, and they can certainly blow one away. (8)
5. Saki’s meticulous in revealing destiny. (6)
6,
14 across. Writer and newspaperman, on Monday, gets runaround. (5,6)
7. English market town holds African country to give a college
scholarship. (7)
8. See 23 down.
15. Hives injure cockney
-- and I go to corner of Asia Minor. (9)
16. See 1 down.
17. Move what may be used
on T-shirts. (8)
19. Time worker has booze
and causes angry outburst. (7)
21. Brings back to mind
that auto makers may have them. (7)
22. Punish railway for
ostentatious decoration. (6)
23, 8 down. Author,
wrestler and Irish-American mobster. (6,8)
25. Capone weapon causes
sudden fear and terror. (5)
Notes
E-mail
your solutions of The Very Logical Prize Puzzle No. 308 by the closing date of 4
p.m. (EST) on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017 to johnnolan755@gmail.com
and include your name, postal address and your choice of a Strip T’s shirt***,
should you be the drawn winner. Please include a second choice (design number
and size) just in case we are out of stock of your favorite T-shirt. The items
on Café Press are not in our stock and thus are not available as prizes.
Solutions
can also be mailed to John Nolan, 27 River Road, Farmington, NH, 03835.
All
answers, except proper names, appear in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate
Dictionary tenth edition and/or The Chamber’s Dictionary. In this
"British-style" crossword, punctuation marks in clues are best
ignored, as a rule. The solution to The Very Logical Prize Puzzle No. 308, along
with the name of the winner, and everyone else submitting correct solutions,
will be published on this site towards the end of September.
***P.S.
The cost of mailing one T-shirt overseas has quadrupled in recent years and is
now almost $23 a pop, effectively killing the trade of small businesses like
Strip T’s. Thus, the prize now offered to winning puzzlers from outside the
U.S. will be a signed Stephanie cartoon rather than a T-shirt.
And
the drawn winner of TVLPP 307 is ... Keith Williams of Kingsworthy, England, who
was last plucked from the Hat over two years ago. We'll get a cartoon (by
Stephanie) off to you, possibly with another gardening theme, in the next few
days, Keith.
Congratulations,
also, to the other solvers of the Arthurian-themed puzzle including John Gecik
of Sheffield Lake, Ohio (welcome aboard, John); Trudy Metzger & Laura
Bradford, staying cool in Maine; Nancy Hebert, Chris Rogers, Jim & Joanne
Gray, Julie Lindsay, Larry Reynolds, Randy Taylor, Jane Carville, Barbara
Bierweiler and Anne & Bruce Smith, all living in or 25 miles around
Rochester, NH; Gron Roberts, flying the flag for Wales; Eddie Looby, David Nash
and Mark Nichols, scattered around England; Calfan Dary of Bali; and Pat Miga
and Rich Pardoe, baking in summertime Texas.
Thank
you all for the puzzles, and I hope you enjoy TVLPP 308, above.
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No. 213 - Barbara Trow of Dover, New Hampshire, USA
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or Florida, USA
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No. 261 - Mark Nichols of Rugby, Warwickshire,
England
No. 262 - Jim Siirola of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (technically a
non-competitor)
No. 263 - Mark Nichols of Rugby, Warwickshire,
England
No. 264 - Jeanine Bonnet of Limoges, France
No. 265 - Chris Rogers of Farmington, New
Hampshire, USA
No. 266 - Calfan Dary of Anggabaya, Bali, Indonesia
No. 267 - Joan Bittrolff of Alford, Florida, USA
No. 268 - David Nash, Coleford,
Gloucestershire, England
No. 269 - David Simmonds of Crayford, Dartford,
England
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Hampshire, USA
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England
No. 274 - Barbara Bierweiler of Ossipee, New Hampshire, USA
No. 275 - Huguette R.-M. Simmonds, Rodez,
France
No. 276 - Keith Williams, Kings Worthy,
Winchester, England
No. 277 - Veronique Bonnet, Rodez, France
No. 278 - Mark Nichols of Rugby, Warwickshire,
England
No.
279 - Nancy Mooney Hebert, Palm Bay, Florida, USA
No.
280 - Calfan Dary of Anggabaya, Bali, Indonesia
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England
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Indonesia
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Winchester, England
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