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Geeker, it was D.B.'s birthday today, so very appropriate.

Well spotted MPRS

It got me wondering if maybe there were a few other DB gems hidden it the crossword to mark his birthday, and when I saw 24a and the first part of 3d I thought - yes! But, alas - no 😢 If Pan was going to that he/she/non-binary could easily have altered 22a into ......😉

Unless they are there and I just haven't spotted them.

Dear oh dear, how can that be considered a Prize Crossword? My coffee was only half drunk when I'd finished. Very disappointing.

Pan has done a few weekday puzzles, but she (I think) started as a regular Quiptic compiler.

Not sure where the first 5 letters of 9a come from.

I wasted some time trying to parse a rather more distant parliament @13a!

Chris, 9a look up the first five letters as a word on its own. I was thinking the same til I did that.
I’m left wondering if that was intended as Monday’s Quiptic and they’ve printed it on the working day. Pan hasn’t done a prize before.

Morning all,
I too managed to finish it during breakfast today, was hoping for a theme, or a nina given the grid style but seems just to be a straightforward simple puzzle.
FOI was 14a, no idea why I started there, just caught my eye first. LOI was 13a, which I can't parse so might be wrong.
A few terms I didn't know, 1a, 16d, 18d and 25a but all getable from the wordplay.
Hard to pick a favourite when they are all fairly mediocre, maybe 22a.
Re the parsing of 1a, (male) could probably have been omitted, and I assumed it was the doctor doing the keeping, then the lady's back so the first 5 letters for attractive rather than the 5th letter being at the end.
Guess I have lots of time to work on the listener now. Or tidy the house after having the kids at home all week trying to work and homeschool simultaneously.

Thanks jono

I had 6d as favourite - good surface

Well, that was a stroll. Only two hold-ups were 26a and 25a, which I hadn't heard of. With all the crossers in place, the wordplay wasn't too hard to get, and google confirmed the definitions.

I hope someone can help me . I can’t get the Prize crossword on my digital app today. Please can someone send the link to download the puzzle and print it?
Thanks

https://crosswords-static.guim.co.uk/gdn.cryptic.20210109.pdf