14 September 2017
Crossword by Boffles
Plain Vanilla 24
Across
7 1dn Geste ran away to join the Foreign one (6)
8 You need to be to access social media (6)
9 A papal one perhaps unlikely to be full of it (4)
10 Hard cheese! (8)
11 Very incompetent if you cannot organise a good party here (7)
13 Confused by being on board ship? (2,3)
15 Hammerstein award (5)
16 Wearer may lack underwear, so they say (3,4)
18 Decaying US industrial area (4,4)
19 Middle-Eastern country or, we hear. Usain’s response when asked what he did at the Rio Olympics (4)
21 Hydrocarbon extractor (3,3)
22 Small lump of, say, gold, information or 10ac (6)
Down
1 Every Southern belle needs one (4)
2 Popular china decorated with a Chinese landscape (6-7)
3 Those using bullets rather than sly words are the more deadly (7)
4 Reptile that can be charmed (5)
5 Hosiery favoured by studious females? (4,9)
6 Popular picture taker not accessible by the public? (2,6)
12 Academicians join Russian leader for sinister mystic (8)
14 Bird seen flapping at windy fetes (7)
17 ‘The …..is wither’d from the lake, and no birds sing’ Keats (5)
20 A wager to encourage crime? Only if combined (1,3)
