14 January 2021

Crossword by Boffles

No.262

Across

    1  Footballer can be something unexpected (6)

    4  Untouchable as we hope to be after the jab (6)

    9  Head honcho (7)

  10  Low life crawler (5)

  11  Supplementary spear carrier (5)

  12  ‘Those two  main ….. of human kind, wine and women’  Burton (7)

  13  A hospital for avian flu sufferers? (11)

  18  A doubter without cold makes germ-free (7)

  20  Room linked with hands and face (5)

  22  Said to the EU on 31 December? (5)

  23  Partly poetic series part (7)

  24  What Macmillan is said to have feared, dear boy (6)

  25  Settled old round about (6)

 

Down

    1  Crosses we are happy to bear (6)

    2  Roman head sounds useless (5)

    3  Optical lotion nonsense (7)

    5  Place that attracts people, particularly pilgrims (5)

    6  Unbalanced international organisation fair (7)

    7  What investigative journalists do (6)

    8  Provides free nourishment to those in it (4,7)

  14  Sweet drink that’s cool? (3,4)

  15  Covid can leave one doing so for air (7)

  16  Artist goes into bar for wine flask (6)

  17  Very famous foot? (6)

  19  Have confidence in way property is held (5)

  21  Became conscious socially? (5)