14 November 2019

Crossword by Boffles

No.223

Across

    7  Playwright lacking bravery (6)

    8  Their advice likely to be Delphic (6)

    9  Bloody buffoon? (4)

  10  Colourful way to describe indebtedness (2,3,3)

  11  What you make to get out of things you should do (7)

  13  Sort of stories the Greeks went in for (5)

  15  Jones the architect (5)

  16  Hannibal got across them (3,4)

  18  Responsible for the junk mail in your inbox (8)

  19  The Camerons are one and the Campbells another (4)

  21  Badgers dogs (6)

  22  Supplement begins with what sounds like a exclamation of alarm (3,3)

 

Down

    1  Sweet idiot (4)

    2  Trumpeted decision of the Supreme Court? (4,9)

    3  Good for a girl’s ego to have such a fan (7)

    4  Brag reformed as water transport (5)

    5  Marriages contracted for security? (6,7)

    6  Kind of shares you want in your portfolio (4,4)

  12  Mercenary Greek historian (8)

  14  Irish Scotch (7)

  17  Aggressive animal or badly-behaved man (5)

  20  Drink of teetotal Romans (4)