March 2024 Puzzle Solutions – Byline Times

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subscription options here. ACROSS: 8 Each (one after another) of ring old school and spy precede (on) MASTER (this teacher, 9 Anagram (‘s at sea) of UNLESSIT = UTENSILS (these are always

handy), 10 Amagram (managed to produce) of I AM GLAD + last letter (finally) of HozieR) = MADRIGAL (a song without accompaniment), 11 Skates (RAYS) surrounding (over) railway (EL, an

elevated railway) = RELAYS (races), 12 CD of PERIODIC, 13 Homophone (for the audience) of a guarantee (a cert) = ASSERT (insist on), 14 Competitor (ENTrANT) minus middle letter

(disheartened) next to (by) follows (after) international association (UN, ref Chambers ‘association of states’) + delegate (REP) = UNREPENTANT (not sorry), 19 Delighted (ecSTATIC) after

deleting (getting rid of) Euro Commission (EC)= STATIC (still)., 21 Main (ARCH) + roads (WAYS) = ARCHWAYS (they make passages beneath), 23 Approached (CAME) + golf club (RA, Royal &

Ancient) = CAMERA (legislative chamber), 24 Anagram (struggle with) the part of weekend that is last (END) + IF ILL = INFILLED (blocked up), 25 Exhausted (sPENT) minus 1st letter (head off)

+ before (AGO)+ last letter (end of) sessio(N) = PENTAGON (Dept of Defense), 26 Anybody generally (ONE, ie reference to no one in particular) with bIRD minus 1st letter (taking top off)

surrounding (boxes) = IRONED (flattened).  DOWN: 1 Time (AGE) + (D) next to (with) staff (MAN) = MANAGED (organised), 2 Much fêted character (STAR) + symptom (SIGN) = (indicated by) STAR

SIGN (Cancer, DBE, perhaps), 3 1st letter (sart to) of (F)eel + stiff (RIGID) = FRIGID (cold), 4 Outer letters (‘s case) of (P)rosecuto(R) = PR = PUBLIC RELATIONS (that should get broad

support, ie the function of PR), 5 Middle letters (essentially) of ba(NT)am with anagram (about) of AGREES going to the front (advancing) = SEGREANT (with raised wings, in heraldry), 6 Hands

(PALMS) surrounding (over) 1st letter (introduction to) of (S)several = PSALMS (songs), 7 (P) + beds (LAYERS) = PLAYERS (actors), 15 Old (EX) + pennies (dbe,?, CHANGE) = EXCHANGE (trade),

16 DD of NEW BLOOD, 17 Anagram (drifting) of MASTER containing (around) central letter (middle of) oc(E)an = STEAMER (ship), 18 Sorts (TYPES) + 1st letters (initially) of (E)xtra (T)emps =

TYPESET (prepare for printing), 20 Died (WENT) in the outer letters (the outskirts) of (T)enb(Y) = TWENTY (a number), 22 Homophone (caught) of hacking/coughing (but endlessly, so hackin’,

coughin’) = COFFIN (this box).