14 June 2018
Crossword by Boffles
No.158
Across
1 Make tea or beer (4)
3 United Gulf states (8)
9 Where you wait ages for transport and then three come along at once (3,4)
10 Possibly the food of love (5)
11 Nureyev or Bushell, for example (6,6)
13 The Cromwell not keen on fun (6)
15 Hopefully, a knight-errant will come along to rescue one in distress (6)
17 Does the absence of his wife allow him to make hay? (5,7)
20 Modern India architect (5)
21 Famous firearm designed at Brno (4,3)
22 The Lord God (8)
23 It is common to propose on bended …….. (4)
Down
1 Post-war population explosion (4,4)
2 Rest adds fifty for painting prop (5)
4 Mobile theft equipment (6)
5 Forum fireworks? (5,7)
6 Derogatory term for caber throwers? (7)
7 Hosiery the over-talkative are to told to put in it (4)
8 Site of Bolshevik revolution (2,10)
12 Medici capital (8)
14 Islamic Abraham (7)
16 Twenty-five cents equals worthless (3-3)
18 What you fall off when you start drinking again (5)
19 South American empire (4)