Mostly Harmless Crossword
25 May 2020
Skirwingle

WARNING: Do not even attempt this puzzle unless you are a dyed-in-the-wool Hitchhiker's Guide fan: otherwise only about 15% of the clues will make any sense whatsoever.

This is a slightly edited revision of a puzzle published in the October 2015 issue of Mostly Harmless (the magazine of ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha – the Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Appreciation Society).

Many of the clues pertain to characters and situations seen in the books, radio series and TV series. My clueing style has, I hope, improved since then, but I have only edited the clumsiest ones.


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  •  1  Vessel that’s a total failure: anarchists tip it up (8,7)

  •  9  Environment in which Labour brother, half-cut, approaches European Union (6)

  • 10 Ladies, I’m developing a dream of perfection (8)

  • 11 Trail slowly behind non-hitchhiker with broken leg (8)

  • 14 During particular Thursday, his home was demolished (6)

  • 17 Sad robot carped on – a long-term investment from Sirius Cybernetics, perhaps? (9,4)

  • 20 Old credit card booth near The Guide’s off switch (6,7)

  • 23 Surprisingly apt hue for what Disaster Area’s stunt-ship’s likely to do (4,2)

  • 25 Spiritual types 14 sought on Hawalius: access it with difficulty (8)

  • 28 Allowed back east and left behind 14’s least favourite mode of transport (8)

  • 29 Goes for tea ingredient (6)

  • 30 Unfortunate fact: head loather Agrajag built this (9,2,4)

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  •  2  A number wanting a drink (not small) (6)

  •  3  Side dish displayed in Candara Italic (5)

  •  4  Hard bit of ladder that disastrously collapsed on Betelgeuse (5)

  •  5  11 or 17 perhaps but pi? Erm, not really (5)

  •  6  Rough exit can be worked out (7)

  •  7  Share out everything between Genesis and Malachi (5)

  •  8  Strange magic bred in 18’s city (9)

  • 12 At parties, Ford wants to drink a lot and chase these soldiers around right and left! (5)

  • 13 Closed circuits left – oh dear, I seem to have made a mistake! (5)

  • 15 Bear up, you’re starting to describe a really together guy (5)

  • 16 A miserably inadequate word Jeltz used for us (9)

  • 17 Two companies with a hot drink (5)

  • 18 A manuscript follows a deadline initially, for him (5)

  • 19 Computer died unexpectedly above Earth (5)

  • 21 Nervously do a swoop – nothing less – and find part of a tree (7)

  • 22 British feature of Tricia that might have got her on US/AM etc, can change (6)

  • 24 Agrajag’s dangerous features sound like K9’s! (5)

  • 25 Alternative surname Trillian reckoned appealed initially? (5)

  • 26 Small room and round instrument favoured by Fenchurch (5)

  • 27 Vantrashell’s a bit rubbish (5)

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