13 October 2022

Crossword by Boffles

No.342

Across

    1  Game girl (8)

    6  Powder used by mixed-up rascal? (5)

    8  ‘……. certainly gives one werry gentlemanly ideas’  Surtees (9)

    9  Latin thus sounds unwell (3)

  10  Inoffensive behaviour gets you out unharmed? (4-7)

  12  Also an Asian country (4)

  13  Badly-behaved youngster sometimes comes in a pack (4)

  16  Fine battle involving a form-full of participants? (5,6)

  18  Greek letter forms skin of endangered pachyderm (3)

  19  Candidates need to satisfy them (9)

  20  No marks for Japanese aircraft (5)

  21  They knock out with looks? (8)

Down

    1  Often cheeky kisses (5)

    2  Sad like Niobe (7)

    3  Spits out has speechify element (12)

    4  Plausible company man (6)

    5  Invitee is predicted , we hear (5)

    6  Religious revival (12)

    7  Almost entirely lucid mathematician (6)

  11  Varietal  not confined to Iran (6)

  14  Man-powered ancient battleship (7)

  15 Haunts island Napoleon’s last view of France (6)

  16 Government crisis committee, presumably now permanently in session (5)

  17 Get turned up at something unacceptable like a bad smell? (5)