3 March 2022

Crossword by Boffles

No.314

Across

    1  Most risqué xenophobe with English inside (7)

    5  What flowers do without water (5)

    8  Disastrous campaign instigated by Winston (9)

    9  Sticky stuff produced by son-less emperor (3)

  10  Religious leader nearly all animal (5)

  12  You may have to if your kite is damaged (4,3)

  13  Credits earned for chocolate squares? (7,6)

  15  Plucky act governs what you can kill (4,3)

  17  Sort of matches that can be trials (5)

  19  Indian postal system sounds shady (3)

  20  Demand issued when things reach crisis point (9)

  22  Hat favoured by the Epsom crowd? (5)

  23  Writer with links to big river and oarsmen (7)

Down

    1  Chap who with that acknowledges receipt of radio messages (5)

    2  Pass senior officer (3)

    3  Bibliophiles go for the first one (7)

    4  Paul and Art succeeded with a bridge over it (8,5)

    5  Instruct how to doctor sick? (5)

    6  Opposite of income (9)

    7  Of Penzance or the Caribbean, perhaps (7)

  11  Found at 22ac? You bet! (9)

  13  City incorporating Indian garden and pop (7)

  14  Empire victorious at 8ac (7)

  16  Very poor condition of the insect infected (5)

  18  Douglas’ disastrous offensive (5)

  21  Zero thanks for Chinese way of looking at things (3)