1 November 2018
Crossword by Boffles
No.176
Across
1 Sage quality (6)
4 A dope asks for speed (4)
9 Keep your head out of it if you want to hang on (5)
10 Names used to avoid detection (7)
11 Modern Illyria (7)
12 Interrogate in the kitchen (5)
13 Mind-stretching clue? (5-6)
17 Rodent with an internal degree found in Morocco (5)
19 Cattle thief who makes little noise (7)
21 Communist form of address (7)
22 Ponders with the help of artistic ladies (5)
23 Author without an ending was one (4)
24 Suez or the Abdication, for example (6)
Down
1 Dosh, moolah (5)
2 Drool you do not want over you (7)
3 ‘A life on the ……. wave, A home on the rolling deep’ (5)
5 Raw fish dish (5)
6 Used with mortar but not for brickwork (6)
7 Anti-aircraft guns found in a torch? (2,9)
8 Tongue that is common if franca (6)
14 Contains your to-do pile (2-4)
15 Joins up (7)
16 Do you need to give their wearer a belt? (6)
18 Attractive girl but not the brightest (5)
20 Flowers that caused a war (5)
22 Shorten month to impair (3)
