13 May 2021

Crossword by Boffles

No.279

Across

    7  Fair election? (6,7)

    8  Sewn with conviction? (8)

    9  Nasty smell if in National Front (4)

  10  Shortage sounds like deprived urban area (7)

  12  Take power like Napoleon or Franco (5)

  14  Very small part of the picture films the Spanish (5)

  16  John Major’s pants (1-6)

  19  Is each one born under a lucky one? (4)

  20  Yangtze or Fashoda perhaps (8)

  22  Students of cross makers (13)

 

Down

    1  Cheese making fate (4)

    2  General population in open view (6)

    3  Ruling house has considerable unpleasant element (7)

    4  Bird has a gander (5)

    5  What an MP does before he sits (6)

    6  Trouble can result from such request (3,3,2)

  11  Crucial chemical trial (4,4)

  13  Can an unknown quality be influential? (1,6)

  15  Olympian continental eponym (6)

  17  ‘Dulce et decorum est pro Patria mori’ as per Wilfred Owen (3,3 )

  18  Small and elegant jewel in Paris (5)

  21  Crazy bananas (4)