17 January 2019

Crossword by Boffles

No.185

Across

    1  Sleep-friendly coffee (6)

    5  Mild exclamation addressed to oneself (4,2)

    8  Inform on sales outlet (4)

    9  Helps keep your head above water (4,4)

  10  A crazy shell (7)

  11  Does it have no B grade players? (1-4)

  12  The original cat and mouse story? (3,3,5)

  16  Gray wrote one in a churchyard (5)

  18  Salopettes and bobble hats, for example (7)

  21  Country boundary (8)

  22  She vanishes in a Hitchcock film (4)

  23  Dangerous fly created by T S Eliot twice initially (6)

  24  Let’s hope they exceed your liabilities (6)

 

Down

    2  Wear out car part (7)

    3  Jelly like photo (5)

    4  Community music (4,4)

    5  A figgy one is not necessarily second-rate (4)

    6  Judge of taste among other things (7)

    7  Med island base of knights (5)

  13  French politician behind an ineffective line (7)

  14  Populous Asian capital (7)

  15  365 days full stop is long ago? (4,3)

  17  High jinks in the sky? (5)

  19  ‘She …….. in beauty, like the night’  Byron (5)

  20  Immorality that has a firm grip (4)