4 June 2020

Crossword by Boffles

No.236

Across

    1  Dismiss contest (4,4)

    7  Position held by Trump but for how much longer? (5)

    8  Without planning I’m on time with last of you (9)

    9  Organ found in the heart (3)

  10  Gag loses start for engrave (4)

  11  ‘No ……. ever spar’d a brother’ Gay (6)

  13  What a loss-making business uses to draw up its accounts? (3,3)

  14  A Charlotte who wrote about a jane (6)

  17  Not good for a lady to be so described dressed as lamb (6)

  18  Colour added to such a top tech company is novel (4)

  20  Priceless amount of it in China (3)

  22  Femme fatale such as Calypso (9)

  23  Time in delayed produces coffee (5)

  24  Knife used by makers of ladies shoes? (8)

 

Down

    1  Shoot long range bird (5)

    2  Fishy landfall of the Mayflower (4,3)

    3  Money is of all evil, some say (4)

    4  Dodge policeman away from home (3,3)

    5  ‘All I ask is a tall ship and a star to ……. her by’ Masefield (5)

    6  Credit a writer (7)

    7  Drug dealers old style baby utensils (7)

  12  How monarchs lie (2,5)

  13  Is a lounge lizard one? (7)

  15  Closest – and most dear? (7)

  16  What a French Boffles seeks? (3,3)

  17  Beer ingredient a decorated island (5)

  19  Bit of wind adds nothing for relish (5)

  21  And others begin estimated time of arrival (2,2)