Not The Saturday Prize Puzzle

NTSPP - 038 by Chaz

Seven entries form part of a famous octet and lack further definition.


Eleven other clues contain an extra letter in the word-play which when removed
spell out, in order, an instrument associated with the group; all other clues are normal.


The absent member should be written below the completed grid (assuming that you have printed it out!).

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  •  7  Noble gas in French wine (5)

  •  8  Wall pictures make nooks absurd (9)

  • 10 Microsoft founder has gold for dessert (6)

  • 11 26's fragment holding right (8)

  • 12 Drive out princess's beavers' home (8)

  • 13 Clergyman without ‘A’, being short in manner (4)

  • 15 Ural mine shift for number of Romans (7)

  • 17 Second rate & lit. from Buddhist School (7)

  • 20 Work-shy detective backing limb (4)

  • 22 Books backups (8)

  • 25 Toll road gate hut pinker removed (8)

  • 26 Put an end to hesitation (6)

  • 27 Suspended Leeds in ID mix-up (9)

  • 28 Last month lad's lure (5)

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  •  1  Funny greeting, king's holding debt (9)

  •  2  Boisterously enjoy bad direction for wake-up call (8)

  •  3  Wailer outlaws sheep innards (7)

  •  4  Senseless tall crime regarding verse (8)

  •  5  Meal making digital exchange (6)

  •  6  Company bill? (5)

  •  9  Exciting dead kitty (4)

  • 14 Lee proved difficult to be regenerated (9)

  • 16 Outfit I repair is holding up pre-dinner drink (8)

  • 18 Trio captures quiet river shark (8)

  • 19 Given the low-down as Superman obviously has been (7)

  • 21 End car crash (6)

  • 23 Discover old penny in mass of bubbles (4)

  • 24 High among detectives (5)

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