4 March 2021

Crossword by Boffles

No.269

Across

    1  Sort of things the Apostles did (4)

    3  Drink joins drunkard for a game (3,5)

    9  Start car without a key (3-4)

  10  Race meeting hosts a northerner (5)

  11  Celluloid Saturnalia (5,7)

  13  So so (3,3)

  15  Bikes and what one does on them (6)

  17  Over-keen to fire (7-5)

  20  God takes on a woman’s name (5)

  21  I back back for Italian course (7)

  22  Good for fish to be beaten? (8)

  23  Inspect southern Canada (4)

 

Down

    1  Clinging follower (8)

    2  Emblem composed from motet (5)

    4  What Americans raid when they have the munchies (6)

    5  Kind of TV inspection brings one down to earth (7,5)

    6  Angelic leader of the forces of Heaven (7)

    7  Still I believed to haunt the Himalayas (4)

    8  By hand communication (4,8)

  12  ‘The …….. came down like the wolf on the fold’  Byron (8)

  14  Eject those attending? (4,3)

  16  Tenant without ecstasy, we hear (6)

  18  Joke in charge of Roman wars (5)

  19  Knife try (4)