Crossword by Boffles

No.307

Across

1 Creed of Russians viewing things negatively (8)

7 Wartime German (5)

8 Came across a poem for an alternative world (9)

9 Tease young Billy (3)

10 Author good with curry (4)

11 Parties that are hits? (6)

13 Customary time for duelling with pistols (2,4)

14 Race on the slopes (6)

17 Someone lacking options, we are told (6)

18 Picture game (4)

20 A turn back? (1,2)

22 Street made famous by the Fab Four (5,4)

23 Loaded but not necessarily rich (5)

24 Lock up a learner inside (8)

Down

1 Number crazy wanderer? (5)

2 Married with a problem beginning (7)

3 ‘If yet, I have not all thy …., Dear, I shall never have it all.’ Donne (4)

4 Ranch lavish meal (6)

5 Guys who are real cards (5)

6 Venue admits us (7)

7 Used by surgeons to peep through? (7)

12 Billabong billy boiler incorporates loot (7)

13 A story including female is so genial (7)

15 Abe had a car? (7)

16 Sort of emissions generating hot air (6)

17 Chains can attract interest (5)

19 The power of cyclists (5)

21 Kind but perhaps not your’s (4)

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