Crossword by Boffles

No.237

Across

1 Original thinker (6)

4 Jazz singer found in cellar (4)

9 Famous designers of furniture – for professors? (5)

10 Sorry container reveals blunderer (3,4)

11 Chap meets celeb cook without me for great leader (7)

12 Scottish expression about colour (5)

13 Straw or Chuck? (5)

15 Island formed from coral or a tax (5)

19 Not harmed although international body is (5)

21 Nursing pioneer sounds like fuel found on shore (7)

24 Jesse Owens or Usain Bolt , for example (7)

25 Part French chum (5)

26 Simple to have a good time in the big one (4)

27 Like music played by Muddy Waters (6)

Down

1 Something a King had (5)

2 Court love story (7)

3 Problem children (5)

5 It is not just dogs that can be let off it (5)

6 Causes annoyance loses beginning to reveal joints (6)

7 Awarded to Sidney Poitier and others but not bravo (5)

8 Skilful abbreviation of French direction (6)

14 Cad but can be a club member (6)

16 Treat as a big beast? (7)

17 He took the vim out of Zim (6)

18 Bloomer found when girl’s saved from calamity (5)

20 Laughable barriers? (2-3)

22 Help – what nuns wear, we hear (5)

23 ‘……. and ivory live together in harmony’ McCartney/Wonder (5)

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