5 May 2022

Crossword by Boffles

No.323

Across

    1  Where the Titanic was laid down (7)

    5  Chekov or Bruckner? (5)

    8  Triumphalist monument like Titus’ (5,4)

    9  Prefix  – to centre, for example (3)

  10  Unknown consumes poet (5)

  12  Reduce a man to the status of a chattel (7)

  13  Noted programme identifier (9,4)

  15  Good for a quick spot and hand care? (4,3)

  17  Dangerous gift givers lose right to become techies (5)

  19  Tree and its burnt remains (3)

  20  Belgian city noble someone owed allegiance (5,4)

  22  Something to do with goods in wedding vows (5)

  23  Makes unhappy blue studies (7)

Down

    1  Crazy but sounds temperate (5)

    2  What to go on when the Feds are after you (3)

    3  Might cause you to forget the answer (7)

    4  Players who only give 75%? (5-8)

    5  Musketeer’s mount? (5)

    6  Blue European flower (3,6)

    7  Shown by the inexperienced (7)

  11  Tormented went on the decline without left (9)

  13  New Mexico railway terminus (5,2)

  14  Intellectual starts with bacon acccompaniment (7)

  16  ‘Licence my roving hands and let them go, Before, behind, between, above, ……’ Donne (5)

  18  The fair-minded see both of an argument (5)

  21  Schiller wrote one to joy (3)