Crossword by Boffles

No.302

Across

1 Bombastic Blackshirt (9)

6 Dolorosa or Appia, perhaps (3)

8 Series of events for bike (5)

9 Roman city (7)

10 Oxford is the place for dreaming ones (6)

12 To prosper, go to bed and rise thus, they say (5)

13 Sort of trip Cook took (6)

14 Fertile environment created by warm couch (6)

17 Start of an Italian artist and a frequent subject (5)

19 Social ones are shunned even if well (6)

21 Fine touch-down is such a good effort (4,3)

22 What an impost does (5)

23 Such agreeable men support their boss (3)

24 Bond villain handy about house and garden? (3-3,3)

Down

1 Is there a link between the brass and such filth? (4)

2 Macabre remuneration (4,3)

3 Bullring bravo (3)

4 Put money in popular undergarment (6)

5 Where to find the troubled diner? Of course! (2,3,4)

6 Christ’s is based in 9ac (5)

7 Irked result of anodyne mix-up (7)

11 Operatic jester (9)

13 Opening coming from lack of knowledge? (7)

15 Pub quiz? (3,4)

16 A part is by an actor (6)

18 Prisons for thieves (5)

20 ‘Unto us a child is given, unto us . …. is born’ Isaiah (1,3)

22 Add one for a crowd (3)

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