Crossword by Boffles

No.353

Across

1 Author – pere ou fils and friends (4)

3 Kafkaesque legal proceeding (3,5)

9 Where each of the Frogs came from (7)

10 Wise selector of winners (5)

11 Foolish sounding person’s relative has stage presence (8,4)

14 Howard’s objective? (3)

16 Belgian city lord (5)

17 Where the owl and the pussycat went to (3)

18 Transylvanian blood sucker (5,7)

21 Girl enouraged musically to get tooled up (5)

22 USA eponym (7)

23 Much admred people can be put on one (8)

24 Stern-sounding bird (4)

Down

1 Things companies must have (8)

2 Destination of a passage (5)

4 Busybodies should be told to do this to their own row (3)

5 Pinteresque prudent person? (3,9)

6 Living ninety years considered a good one (7)

7 Look suggestive of nonsense writer (4)

8 Belgian girl with a chequered past? (4,8)

12 ‘The best way to get the better of temptation is just to …….. to it’ Graham (5)

13 Famous womaniser ran a Chinese restaurant on paper (8)

15 Fate of Shelley (7)

19 Name of humble Dickensian (5)

20 Umbrella carried by Dickensian lady (4)

22 Rifle A under another name (3)

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