17 June 2021

Crossword by Boffles

No.284

Across

    1  Fruit and nuts (7)

    5  ‘ ……… shelter’ The Rolling Stones (5)

    8  Unalterable fake identity (5)

    9  Celebrated by the bells of St Clement’s (7)

  10  Where pudding can be a starter (9)

  12  Republican group fired up by Latin anger? (3)

  13  What the lady did in a picture (6)

  14  Highest point a post office? wow! (6)

  17  When the impatient want it (3)

  18  Abducted like David Balfour (9)

  20  Consort and a province (7)

  21  Old joke Irishman lives abroad (5)

  23  World-famous city revealed when colour loses direction (5)

  24  Seven or three? Sibling rivalry still likely (7)

 

Down

    1  Chuck or blue, perhaps (5)

    2  Badger horse (3)

    3  Found in colonies with no dress code (7)

    4  Surefire candidate has a foot in the door? (4-2)

    5  One is advised not to mix it with grain (5)

    6  What students engage in largely street crime (7,2)

    7  The Romans tended to do so to those they defeated (7)

  11  Preferred energy capable of replacement (9)

  13  Germanic rather than Slav DNA in these thugs (7)

  15  All but one of such space orbiters are divine (7)

  16  High principles shown by ladies (6)

  18  Fate sounds more peaceful (5)

  19  Desert or dessert comestible (5)

  22  Part of piece that everybody wants a piece of (3)