24 March 2022

Crossword by Boffles

No.317

Across

    5  Abandoned Duke found when America abandons well-off (8)

    7  Unscientific skills (4)

    9  Where 300 famously died fighting a vastly superior invading army (11)

  10  Poet and playwright has thirsty start and kind of end (6)

  12  Spectator and what has caught their eye (6)

  13  Mocks common eats (6)

  15  Compulsion can be a defence (6)

  16  Role is to test things in court (5,6)

  18  Composer productive at work and in bed (4)

  19  Tribe to be found on the Floss? (4,4)

Down

    1  A radical is hot to? (4)

    2  Famous one given on a mount (6)

    3  Book containing the truth? (6)

    4  Minaret summons (4,2,6)

    6  According to Einstein, the fastest a signal can travel through space (5,2,5)

    8  Emerged from the Labyrinth to found Athens (7)

  11  Lavish meal sort of biscuit (4,3)

  14  Battle with end sliced off for sausage (6)

  15  According to Kipling, the female of the species is more so than the male (6)

  17  Punk or heavy metal, perhaps (4)