1 December 2022

Crossword by Boffles

No.349

Across

    1  Bird that can be tough when cold (6)

    4  Jim known for racist laws (4)

    8  To whom drinkers unbosom themselves (8)

    9  I play Latin game (4)

  11  Flower 1dn without rest and relaxation (3)

  12  Desolate piece of ground inspired a poet (9)

  13  Remove beds to show emptiness? (6)

  15  Staggering amount we all owe (2,4)

  18  Stanley and Livingstone were of Africa (9)

  19  Uncle with a notorious son (3)

  20  A wet doctor in person (4)

  21  What mendacious insomniacs do? (3,5)

  22  Naval bird (4)

  23  Bather big at fairs (6)

Down

    1  Delay test about Arkansas (5)

    2  Stern opening for thrilling film (4,6)

    3  Childish winner under primogeniture (6)

    5  Swiss roll is a sweet one (7)

    6  Courted, wed outside (5)

    7  Reduced Edward with something for cricketers (6)

  10  Shrewd Rebecca who leaps off the page (5,5)

  14  Perform initiation ceremony (7)

  16  Wood warning (6)

  17  Sea beginning for Italian dynasty (6)

  18  Provide all owned? (5)

  19  ‘Yesterday, upon the …….., I met a man who wasn’t there’  Mearns (5)