31 October 2019

Crossword by Boffles

No.221

Across

    1  Top Roman official has diplomatic duties (6)

    4  Nellie the elephant said goodbye to it (6)

    9  It all started with such an explosion, some say (3,4)

  10  Slacker lazier then others (5)

  11  Mecca is a mecca for its adherents (5)

  12  Classical king with a classic complex (7)

  13  Opening this container only leads to trouble (8,3)

  18  Georgian city (7)

  20  You hit rock-bottom at this point (5)

  22  Kind of lover more interested in the ladies than a language (5)

  23  Has more sides to it than the US Department of Defense (7)

  24  Over-long piece of writing mostly composed of loose stones (6)

  25  Kind of wife rich old men want to carry off (6)

 

Down

    1  Driver with the knowledge (6)

    2  Molesworth or Farage? (5)

    3  Defenceless like the Venus de Milo (7)

    5  Epic story of an Anatolian conflict (5)

    6  Nymph who held Odysseus captive – with a song? (7)

    7  Pressure of modern life can cause it (6)

    8  Time of life when you behave rationally? (3,2,6)

  14  No duds in this cast (3-4)

  15  Politician at home in both Rome and Washington (7)

  16  Famous for pizza and criminality (6)

  17  ‘ ……. for the Parson, ‘Baccy for the Clerk’  Kipling (6)

  19  Such a word is only used once for the most part (5)

  21  Discover information, possibly to discredit sombody (3,2)