10 March 2022

Crossword by Boffles

No.315

Across

    1  This Parliament had a stake in a King’s execution (4)

    3  Prussian hard case eventually sunk (8)

    8  Very small note beginning (7)

  10  Guys should not toy with them (5)

  11  Believer in princely realpolitik (11)

  13  Left thrilled minus a hundred (6)

  15  Song states go in for (6)

  17  Incalculable as the caverns through which Alph ran were to man (11)

  20  What cricketer passes to his replacement at the crease? (5)

  21  Hardy heroine period is a bit of  mosaic (7)

  22  Fukushima or Chernobyl, for example (8)

  23  Short river visit (4)

Down

    1  Don’t forget about MP (8)

    2  It’s just crazy! (5)

    4  How Shakespeare was pictured (2,4)

    5  Malicious people who hope that what they throw sticks (11)

    6  Explorer certainly no couch-potato (7)

    7  What those 4dn seal letters with (4)

    9  Older relatives with a girlish side (6,5)

  12  Messenger who is diplomatic (8)

  14  Popular friends found in gaol (7)

  16  Scurry about old fashioned undie (6)

  18  Happening when stop lacks PR (5)

  19  A resting place descriptive of those in it (4)