Not The Saturday Prize Puzzle

NTSPP - 559 by Phibs
Social Distancing

The wordplays in eight clues lead to two distinct elements which are appropriately separated in the solution.

Revert
Check
Save
Reveal Letter
Pencil
Across
  •  1  Pilot boat putting out in the morning (5)

  •  4  Supporting King George before Edward's initial broadcast (9)

  •  9  Apprehensive about first of exams, college degree not guaranteed (9)

  • 10 Vet valued hints every so often (5)

  • 11 English cover put around American import of Catch-22 (7)

  • 12 Sink one before hosts start on Scotch (7)

  • 13 He's lived with unsettling disorder (8)

  • 15 Moderates are covering for Boris, inwardly worried (6)

  • 18 Does same job as Bob Savage, spending week aboard coach (6)

  • 19 Against Conservative twisting stuff (8)

  • 22 Root regrets missing half season (7)

  • 24 Left Italian international in goal after rotating reserves (7)

  • 26 One about to deliver bitter (5)

  • 27 Right returning old item of underwear famous duke's pinched (9)

  • 28 Nude wrestling stretched church's patience (9)

  • 29 Come after stolen suede skirts (5)

  • Down
  •  1  Seemed very much like a zombie, one conceded (7)

  •  2  Stand when stuffing fish (5)

  •  3  Suggest upturn hasn't got very close (9)

  •  4  Shared gin flips with one such as Branagh? (8)

  •  5  Order, alternatively someone who's desperate to receive one (6)

  •  6  Domain name and URL leaving beginners confused (5)

  •  7  I keep posters in order to dream about Dorothy Dandridge, essentially (9)

  •  8  Admires character at rear of firefighters holding bucket (7)

  • 14 Played his damaged reed badly (9)

  • 16 Jerk milked complaint, ultimately releasing PDF flier (9)

  • 17 He puts up with another friend of Pooh's, a turtle on vacation (8)

  • 18 Block newspaper editor's opening salvo (7)

  • 20 Time women go off rhubarb (7)

  • 21 Understanding about a 'male issue' (6)

  • 23 One sums up how to turn tips of bine into beer (5)

  • 25 Rents are staggering in street that's on the up (5)

  • Created with Raphaël 2.3.0
    1

    2

    3

    4

    5

    6

    7

    8

    9

    10

    11

    12

    13

    14

    15

    16

    17

    18

    19

    20

    21

    22

    23

    24

    25

    26

    27

    28

    29