4 April 2019

Crossword by Boffles

No.196

Across

    7  Messy stables Hercules had to clean (6)

    8  Cicero or Demosthenes, for example (6)

    9  What girls put on the face when they have had one in it? (4)

  10  Doctors who work from home? (8)

  11  What employees do when they are sick (5,2)

  13  Good for you if you have your’s in the trough (5)

  15  Three can be one (5)

  16  When your wheels get examined (3,4)

  18  Terrorist found in a full waste receptacle (3,5)

  19  Used for surfing by the temporary homeless? (4)

  21  Home to two gents and a love-sick girl (6)

  22  Calculation  of a company’s earnings before deductions (6)

 

Down

    1  Animal you do not want a load of (4)

    2  What has a tree got to be sad about? (7,6)

    3  ‘……… my heart’ sung by Ray Charles and others (7)

    4  Short-lived sort of restaurant (3-2)

    5  What putative fathers wear to court? (9,4)

    6  ‘Gather ye …….. while you may, Old Time is still a-flying’  Herrick (8)

  12  Leading characters of one kind (8)

  14  May get you out or prevent you getting in (7)

  17  I hand out the  cards –   perfect (5)

  20  Faithful hound (4)