6 April 2023

Crossword by Boffles

No.354

Across

    1  Big day for egg hunters (6)

    4  French maid takes time for something worn at 1ac (6)

    9  Disease almost entirely composed of old bile (7)

  10  Challenges the SAS expect to win (5)

  11  Kind of frutti Little Richard sang about (5)

  12  What you eat on a flight? (7)

  13  Spanish advocate fruit synonymous with millennials (7,4)

  18  Tactically delay or the sales? (3,4)

  20  Nautical-sounding body part can be contemplated (5)

  22  Spiritual teachers given to meditation (5)

  23  Base of the Capulets involves romance (7)

  24  I leave wishes for nice house, in short (3,3)

  25  A student sometimes tries a chatbot for his (6)

 

Down

    1  ‘The silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses …… my amorous propensities’ Johnson (6)

    2  Leave in a hurry – on two wheels? (5)

    3  Sort of poem Gray wrote in a churchyard (7)

    5  That of St M and St G is chivalrous (5)

    6  Ultimate freedom for Indian believers (7)

    7  Given a job Tom initially requested (6)

    8  Conflict and its antithesis are novel (3,3,5)

  14  Cook made a number of them (7)

  15  Old pimps sound like popular zoo exhibits (7)

  16  An officer confident his 5dn will be (6)

  17  Takes pleasure from last go (6)

  19  Provide with a problem (5)

  21  Has transgender role In Illyria (5)