18 March 2021

Crossword by Boffles

No.271

Across

    7  Sounds like what to do when you get one in the ear (4)

    8  Fruitful conservatory (8)

    9  Counsel deputy president of this era (6)

  10  Ovid and Napoleon were both (6)

  11  Nonsense I make bread (4)

  12  Player with feet not yet planted on the ladder? (8)

  15  Someone with permission to be behind the bar (8)

  17  A fruit dismissive people do not care about (3)

  18  Bloomer incorporating American reptile (6)

  21  Things worse when added to injury (6)

  22  Flower girl (8)

  23  Has leaderless communities (4)

 

Down

    1  Perennials with happy start and I end (8)

    2  Paste with opening for sesame (6)

    3  Poet advises gathering them while ye may (8)

    4  Glory appears when starvation drops in (4)

    5  Set alight coal not left (6)

    6  Saintless street (4)

  13  Non-standard dishes on board (8)

  14  Fruit that doubles up as a colourful vegetable (8)

  16  Avoid El Salvador sweet (6)

  17  Sort of cuisine physicists get excited about? (6)

  19  The offside one can wrong-foot you (4)

  20  Place in garden where boots are taken off? (4)