Crossword by Boffles

Medium sized Boffles Sweats it Out

No.290

Across

7 Fall for an American (6)

8 Studios for comic artists? (6)

9 Sort of job slivovitz maker has? (4)

10 Is it your bag going on this roundabout? (8)

11 Aircraft lease authority (7)

13 Fish swallowing me discloses academic post (5)

15 Eddie Cochran had the 2dn time ones (5)

17 Cliff Richard went on a 2dn one (7)

20 The German embraces French young for continental meal (8)

21 Host feeling of attraction (4)

23 May have turned on, tuned in and dropped out (6)

24 Cheesy chips (6)

Down

1 Stock optimist nonsense (4)

2 One swallow does not make a mathematician? (6)

3 Nitpicker used to attract attention (7)

4 ‘O the month of May, the …. month of May’ Dekker (5)

5 Seven stars fail (6)

6 Girl cake decorator (8)

12 Switzerland version of Marianne (8)

14 Where a sailor gets tied up (7)

16 Obligation-free status (6)

18 Starting point for an odyssey (6)

19 Where the Incas climbed to the top (5)

22 Classic conservative city? (4)

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