Crossword by Boffles

No.258

Across

6 Futuristic clocks? (4,8)

7 No longer trouble and strife (2-4)

8 Breezy offer of entertainment (6)

9 Order limiting social life? (4)

10 Gives Americans a lift (8)

12 Inactive agents found on the track (8)

16 Rocks hit when funny cigarette loses queen (4)

18 Military body RAF pilots need to account for? (1-5)

20 Sense of reassurance experienced by Mafeking (6)

21 What the emperor wore in the fairy tale? (8,4)

Down

1 Not a picky eater (8)

2 French father of electromagnetism (6)

3 Phishing is one type (1-5)

4 Chicken city (4)

5 ‘ The Owl and the Pussy-Cat ….. .. sea ‘ Lear (4,2)

6 One of life’s certainties (5)

11 Meditative Marcus (8)

13 Side that is radical (6)

14 Corrects them abbreviated objectives (6)

15 Street lights often linked with waifs (6)

17 Athletics meeting and something that happens there (5)

19 Damn rodents (4)

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