11 November 2021
Crossword by Boffles
No.300
Across
1 Bloody woman! (4)
3 Sherry you can trifle with (7)
8 Led astray as Rodolphe did Emma Bovary (7)
9 A flash of this once thought provocative (5)
10 A donated tequila source (5)
11 Gives distinctive taste to pastis (7)
13 Contains a knock-out mixture? (5,4)
17 Short robot joins Jason’s ship for fishy delicacy (7)
19 UnEnglish playful advertisement stuns you (5)
20 Prize somebody in the care of a guardian (5)
22 ‘Coldly, sadly descends the autumn ……’ Arnold (7)
23 Fitzgerald wrote about the last one (6)
24 Kind of against a drink? (4)
Down
1 Latin rodent and its hunter come together in grape (6)
2 Premiere access for stars (3,6)
3 Not up to date but still drunk (3,9)
4 Inhabitant of 1dn (5)
5 Navy ships are heart of it. so the song goes (3)
6 Go to excess even though party is finished? (6)
7 Test and a type of test for performers (6)
12 Joining up is sort of listening (9)
14 Stable inn employee? (6)
15 Mild expletive after exclamation form Russian admin area (6)
16 Fierce woman is mythical? (6)
18 Competition for cow folk (5)
21 De Triomphe, perhaps (3)