16 July 2020

Crossword by Boffles

No.242

Across

    1  Such food or remarks lack the right flavour (9)

    6  Odd spirit (3)

    8  A slaver carried a human one (5)

    9  Sneaky plants? (7)

  10  Posh sounding wager?  Certainly! (3,3)

  12  Author good for at least more than one book? (5)

  13  Clever trick that leaves you breathless? (6)

  14  Past student (3,3)

  17  Outlet for brains (5)

  19  Deceptive face incorporating commercial (6)

  21  Motivate to breathe (7)

  22  Fear created when battleship loses nothing (5)

  23  Kind of weird game (3)

  24  Friends who get together over a meal? (9)

 

Down

    1  Sailing manoeuvre that can be hard? (4)

    2  Dickensian character had a bleak house? (7)

    3  Self-esteem I get from Latin? (3)

    4  Days it took P Fogg to go around (6)

    5  Classmate of clever Dick? (5,4)

    6  Artists thank you for Haile Selassie fan (5)

    7  Stonework found in lodges (7)

  11  ‘ I have sailed the seas and come To the holy city of …….’ Yeats (9)

  13  Where to get married in Berlin? (7)

  15  Unpaid obligation (3,4)

  16  Follows the main course (6)

  18  Fire churchman without piano (5)

  20  March day to beware of (4)

  22  Monk’s title the end of liberty (3)