Crossword by Boffles

No.254

Across

7 Favourite wear of traders who lack stock? (6)

8 Branch of law that determines property interest? (6)

9 Concert now a major event in school life (4)

10 Thrown at those misbehaving badly (4,4)

11 Have great confidence in that begins with promise (5,2)

13 What you need to be to drink or marry (2,3)

15 Showy Harry or Gordon? (5)

16 Herculean toils (7)

18 Unscrupulous womaniser (8)

19 Handsome, if old-fashioned, boyfriend (4)

21 Made his mark in Rome (6)

22 Flair revealed by New Testament story (6)

Down

1 Half of US duo dear to French (4)

2 Where to learn to speak proper? (7,6)

3 Credit a writer (7)

4 Quasimodo’s chosen instruments (5)

5 School game (5,8)

6 ‘……. by weakness, wiser men become as they draw near to their eternal home’ Waller (8)

12 Inhabitants of La Belgique (8)

14 Its parsonage housed literary ladies (7)

17 Pix of your insides (1,4)

20 Girl used to circulate in India (4)

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