21 May 2020

Crossword by Boffles

No.234

Across

    1  Comic prison guard (4)

    3  Opposite of pros but not cons (8)

    9  Badly behaved backward lad with short prelate (7)

  10  Can a Welshman be a sweetie? (5)

  11  Weird what a dismissed batsman is about (5)

  12  Slippery customers (4)

  14  One-time Othello found in the South West? (6)

  16  Why Joseph went to Jerusalem (6)

  19  Draw southern boat (6)

  21  Colourful sister of Fauna (5)

  24  War holy to some (5)

  25  Ice cream treats -for the end of the week, one hears (7)

  26  Supporter of, say, Charles or Elizabeth (8)

  27  Tale you have to spin? (4)

 

Down

    1  Chap with something to learn useful for camping (3,5)

    2  The Earth’s takes a year (5)

    4  His job is jumbo (6)

    5  Name the undistinguished can have (5)

    6  Things become clearer as a story does (7)

    7  Bean which is meat and drink to vegans (4)

    8  Guide loses directions for Roman orator (6)

  13  Princip or Booth, for example (8)

  15  Use an opportunity to produce fodder (4,3)

  17  Often combined with blinding, I swear (6)

  18  Helps another write Ibsen play (6)

  20  The Thames is partly and the Med minimally (5)

  22  President with no degrees? (5)

  23  What the 40 thieves hid in (1,3)