11 April 2019

Crossword by Boffles

No.197

Across

    1  Game in which you try to crush your opponent? (6)

    5  Sounds like it is smoked by a lady of the night (6)

    8  Dynasty with a smell about it? (4)

    9  Frenchman (not Macron) with a little man complex (8)

  10  Proper name for the very silly (7)

  11  What a profiteer is greedy for (1,4)

  13  Water bomb feared by submariners (5,6)

  16  ‘An’ a-wastin Christian kisses on an ‘eathen …….. foot’  Kipling (5)

  18  Lawlessness favoured by the Sex Pistols (7)

  21  Excessive action but unlikely to be fatal (8)

  22  May be king but losing out to cards (4)

  23  Test for a part or a place in a side (3,3)

  24  Meal about history (6)

 

Down

    2  Abolished as an outhouse (7)

    3  Extreme irritation (5)

    4  Event celebrating the end of spinsterhood (3,5)

    5  Where what is once on the lips ends up forever (4)

    6  Someone with a legal duty to another (7)

    7  Garlic sauce (5)

  12  Thriller writer caters for sailors (8)

  14  Sunny island capital starts less tanned (7)

  15  Site of the wonderful Temple of Artemis (7)

  17  Celebrated for its white cliffs (5)

  19  Sum up (5)

  20  Slimming course prescribed by Japanese Parliament? (4)