31 March 2022

Crossword by Boffles

No.318

Across

    7  Such wit is sharp and pointed (6)

    8  Airborne guides? (6)

    9  Attempt run through (4)

  10  Dogs and children not necessarily so compliant (8)

  11  Car Italians forge? (7)

  13  What the barman serves you if you are a regular (5)

  15  Unemancipated Russian (5)

  17  Next to embraces day for manner docs need (7)

  20  Rank result of material plus insect (8)

  21  Point left when fish loses the Spanish (4)

  23  Aircraft is French illusion (6)

  24  ‘There are no …..  of amaranth on this side of the grave’  Landor (6)

Down

    1  Pointed pub projectile (4)

    2  Flexible part of gun carriage (6)

    3  Arsenal magazine (7)

    4  Belgian site of three battles (5)

    5  To think the Russians were our’s once! (6)

    6  Normal level (8)

  12  Drink needed to say adieu, eve? (3,2,3)

  14  What bad sports get (4,3)

  16  What you get your rear, crudely speaking, to prepare (2,4)

  18  Flashed by the Light Brigade in Tennyson’s words (6)

  19  Slow-moving caravan component (5)

  22  What anti-communists see under the couch (4)