20 June 2019

Crossword by Boffles

No.207

Across

    6  Pestiferous insect (8)

    8  Man in the morning makes attention-seeking noise (4)

    9  That of cats isn’t one of your holiday games, says T S Eliot (6)

  10  Memphis King (5)

  11  The buzzer’s joints are top quality even if nobbly (3,4,5)

  12  When Sigmund trod on a banana skin? (8,4)

  15  Clearly expressed top including upper case (5)

  16  Composer with a ring of admirers (6)

  18  In your DNA (4)

  19  Shrink but no analyst (8)

 

Down

    1  Unconscious state of corporate post-graduate? (4)

    2  Chirpy form of address for sir’s attendant (6)

    3  So determined only has room for one idea? (6-6)

    4  Church reformer with strong views about sin (6)

    5  Dream period in bed (3,5)

    7  Earl’s invention with no top slice (4,8)

  11  Crime novel that excites (8)

  13  Dutch ones make critical comments (6)

  14  Tugboat? (6)

  17  Women are hard to please in our hours of this, says Scott (4)