3 June 2021

Crossword by Boffles

No.282

Across

    1  Top paddy field protection (4,3)

    5  Add game for early visitor (5)

    8  Poor defence against the virus (5,4)

    9  Plaything and what China does with Taiwan (3)

  10  A Mao jacket, for example (5)

  13  Food for the silly brigade (7)

  14  Was only the Emperor allowed to enter its gates? (9,4)

  16  ‘.. … … Babe’  Sonny and Cher (1,3,3)

  18  Sort of light for the those anxious during it (5)

  20  Non-controlling interest in short of little appeal to Xi (3)

  21  What naughty girls and boys do (9)

  23  German place to take a meal (5)

  24  Footwear that can be made of spare tyres (7)

 

Down

    1  Might is in Xi’s opinion (5)

    2  The artistic world took their’s from Madame Mao (3)

    3  Attain a success (3)

    4  What Florence Nightingale did and the result (7,6)

    5  Very musical (5)

    6  What stories gain in (9)

    7  Used to be such a journey to get there (7)

  11  Pain killers some take recreationally (9)

  12  Uncle Ho’s Greek letter (3)

  14  China but not made there (7)

  15  Material Grandma interested in (7)

  17  Mandarin residence, you chaps (5)

  19  Willows are the standard ones on it (5)

  22  Exclamation when US city loses honour (3)