Across
1. What, in Madrid, follows a cocktail? 8 down! (10)
6. 8 down renews bail. (4)
10. All aboard that’s going aboard! (5)
11. Carl and I don’t get excited describing a guiding principle. (9)
12. A fragment of zinc is a lacking, with regard to a tooth’s cutting edge. (7)
13. Purification by washing …take the answer, cut just so, and briefly add energy. (7)
14. Kind of berry seen in church. (5)
15. Snore ridiculously around the Lord Lieutenant - and this registers! (7)
18. Use part - let foolish chatter result. (7)
19. Khan and I are, in a way, but need a shilling to get started. (5)
22. Gets endlessly obstinate and upset. (7)
24. Having knowledge of early Christianity is little good! No saint instructed Caesar, initially. (7)
25. As if a date can produce a foul-smelling gum resin! (9)
26. Ear hairs of a kind of rat and a soldier. (5)
27. 8 down may be partly to a hundred. (4)
28, 8 down. Sydney’s here and not too far from Glasgow - although that’s new. (10)
Down
1. 8 downs give the French sickness over disreputable bars. (8)
2. Diminished Mussolini when the German came back around. (7)
3. Given over to manufacturing. The correct answer? It’s in a riddle, with us getting worked up. (14)
4. Lenient and fashionable, though getting a thump in Glasgow about a broken leg. (9)
5. A cry of surrender? It’s all relative ... (5)
7. … and relatives unite in a way, as the outsider. (7)
8. See 28 across.
9. Problem solver and revolutionary, but loser with a big nose. (14)
16. Always arising and bottling anger, upset that it’s cut into again. (9)
17. 8 down was once a Christian haven, so to speak. (8)
18. Tribal celebration with Tom Lantos, briefly, and how one may cook an egg outside. (7)
20. Withdraw pamphlet after a sign of hesitation comes up. (7)
21. 8 down also is about a person’s vocation, slangily. (6)
23. Knife attached to a god of destruction. (5)
Notes
E-mail your solutions of The Very Logical Prize Puzzle No. 198 by the closing date of 4 p.m. (EST) on Wednesday, July 23 to stephaniepiro@verizon.net 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 consequently are not available as prizes.
Solutions can also be faxed, if you prefer, to USA code 1-603-755-2926, or 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 answer to 3 down is the British spelling. 18 down and 23 down are alternative spellings.
The solution to The Very Logical Prize Puzzle No. 198, along with the name of the winner, and everyone else submitting correct solutions, will be published on this site towards the end of July.
Latest winners and solvers
As a result of last month's e-mail troubles, two names were drawn this time ... one as the May winner, (No. 196) and one, after some slightly flawed entries for No. 197 were removed from the hat, as the June winner. The May T-shirt goes to Vidya Singh of Sidcup, Kent, England, who is somehow a thread in the Tunapuna/Rodez web.
The June winner, plucked from a group of only eight correct solvers, is Jim Sempsrott of Raleigh, North Carolina, whose prize should also be winging through the US mail on Monday. The other all-correct puzzlers in June were Barbara Bierweiler of Ossipee, NH; Nancy Mooney Hebert of Alton Bay, NH; Barbara Trow of Dover NH; Calfan Dary of Bali; Keith Williams of Winchester, England; James Horrigan of Portsmouth, NH; Randy Taylor of Rochester NH; and Chris Roger from Farmington, NH.
Terry Towle of Strafford, NH and Joan Bittrolff of Alford, Fla. hadn't read Alice Through the Looking Glass lately, and forgot about the poor oysters at 13 across.
Meanwhile, the Tunapuna/Rodez/Sidcup crowd, while getting "oyster" right, all plunged like lemmings over the crossword cliff at 1. across. Instead of "creance" (cree around ANC) they all had "cheynne," which is much too close to a certain vice president for comfort.
Recent winners
No. 115 - Andy Knap of London, SW20, England
No. 116 - Randy Taylor of Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 117 - Chris Rogers of Farmington, New Hampshire, USA
No. 118 - Don Parent of Hanover, Maine, USA
No. 119 - Karen Muller of Kohimarama, Auckland, New Zealand
No. 120 - Nancy Mooney Hebert of Palm Bay, Florida, USA
No. 121 - Carl E. Damuth of Wells, Maine, USA
No. 122 - Don Parent of Hanover, Maine, USA
No. 123 - Randy Taylor of Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 124 - Karen Muller of Kohimarama, Auckland, New Zealand
No. 125 - Carl E. Damuth of Wells, Maine, USA
No. 126 - Joan Bittrolff, Somersworth, New Hampshire, USA
No. 127 - Not posted due to the stress and pressure of vacation
No. 128 - Chris Rogers of Farmington, New Hampshire, USA
No. 129 - Nancy Mooney Hebert of Palm Bay, Florida, USA
No. 130 - Carl E. Damuth of Wells, Maine, USA
No. 131 - Joan Bittrolff, Alford, Florida, USA
No. 132 - Slipped through cracks due to computer crisis
No. 133 - Karen Muller of Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand
No. 134 - Randy Taylor of Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 135 - Don Parent of Hanover, Maine, USA
No. 136 - Paul Noack of West Broomfield, Michigan, USA
No. 137 - Carl E. Damuth of Wells, Maine, USA
No. 138 - Don Parent of Hanover, Maine, USA
No. 139 - Barbara Trow of Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No. 140 - Bonnie & Kevin Bergeron, Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 141 - Nancy Mooney Hebert of Palm Bay, Florida, USA
No. 142 - Karen Cleary of St. Johns Park, Auckland, New Zealand
No. 143 - Chris Rogers of Farmington, New Hampshire, USA
No. 144 - Veronique Bonnet, Rodez, France
No. 145 - Carl E. Damuth of Wells, Maine, USA
No. 146 - Huguette R.-M. Simmonds of Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago
No. 147 - Randy Taylor of Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 148 - Pierre Gaillard, Olemps, France
No. 149 - Reynir Axelsson, Mosfellsbaer, Iceland
No. 150 - Paul Noack of West Broomfield, Michigan, USA
No. 151 - Régine Privat, Naucelle, France
No. 152 - Don Parent of Hanover, Maine, USA
No. 153 - Barbara Winter, Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No. 154 - Joan Bittrolff, Alford, Florida, USA
No. 155 - Condell Lovell Simmons of Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago
No. 156 - Nancy Mooney Hebert of Palm Bay, Florida, USA
No. 157 - Karen Cleary of St. Johns Park, Auckland, New Zealand
No. 158 - Barbara Trow of Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No. 159 - Paul Noack of West Broomfield, Michigan, USA
No. 160 - Sylvie Chauchard of Belmont Sur Rance, Belmont, France
No. 161 - Carl E. Damuth of Wells, Maine, USA
No. 162 - Yvette Gaillard of Olemps, Rodez, France
No. 163 - Randy Taylor of Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 164 - Calfan Dary of Anggabaya, Bali, Indonesia
No. 165 - Keith Simmonds of Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago
No. 166 - Chris Rogers of Farmington, New Hampshire, USA
No. 167 - Joan Bittrolff of Alford, Florida, USA
No. 168 - Betty Bardy of Albi, France
No. 169 - Randy Taylor of Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 170 - Bonnie & Kevin Bergeron, Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 171 - Paul Noack of West Broomfield, Michigan, USA
No. 172 - Barbara Trow of Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No. 173 - Barbara Winter of Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No. 174 - Nancy Moony Hebert of Alton, New Hampshire, USA (in summer)
No. 175 - Jim Gaudet of Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No. 176 - Keith Williams of Kings Worthy, Winchester, Hampshire, England
No, 177 - Karen Cleary of St. Johns Park, Auckland, New Zealand
No. 178 - Calfan Dary of Anggabaya, Bali, Indonesia
No. 179 - James O. Horrigan, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
No. 180 - David Simmonds of Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago
No. 181 - Chris Rogers of Farmington, New Hampshire, USA
No. 182 - Madeleine Dupierre of Rodez, France.
No. 183 - Paul Noack of West Broomfield, Michigan, USA
No. 184 - Jim Siirola of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
No. 185 - James O. Horrigan, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
No. 186 - Randy Taylor of Rochester, New Hampshire, USA
No. 187 - Joan Bittrolff of Alford, Florida, USA
No. 188 - Natalie Ryder, Bremen, Georgia, USA
No. 189 - Barbara Trow of Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No. 190 - Héloïse Bonnet of Rodez, France
No. 191 - Jim Gaudet of Dover, New Hampshire, USA
No. 192 - Calfan Dary of Anggabaya, Bali, Indonesia
No. 193 - Keith Williams of Kings Worthy, Winchester, Hampshire, England
No. 194 - Huguette R.-M. Simmonds, Tunapuna, Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies
No. 195 - Terry Towle, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA
No. 196 - Vidya Singh of Sidcup, Kent, England
No. 197 - Jim Sempsrott, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA