6 July 2023

Crossword by Boffles

No.357

Across

    1  Celebratory drink (9)

    6  Gamely linked with scotch but not an ingredient (3)

    8  Something to eat when drinking such a 17ac (5)

    9  Freedom required to to sell 1ac and the like (7)

  10  Grape formed  by French department beside the sea (6)

  12  Dangerous when lively loses female from the start (5)

  13  Fashion not applicable in this Italian  motown? (6)

  14  Prestigious order given hard shell serves up French seafood (6)

  17  Once English wine producing area (5)

  19  Once German wine producing area (6)

  21  Badly damaged chinatown (7)

  22  Sort of sauce poets make up (5)

  23  Matter totally concluded if iudicata (3)

  24  River crossing place of learning (9)

Down

    1  Leaf part of popular drink but no longer an ingredient (4)

    2  Flavouring absinthe drinkers enjoy (7)

    3  American dad stands in for 1ac (3)

    4  Ice Italians are soft on (6)

    5  Garden pests French control by eating? (9)

    6  Chases like the Quorn (5)

    7  A dish gazed at how we get after too much 1ac (3-4)

  11  Wine producing area put together by French tongue medic (9)

  13  I join a Queen in a windy river (7)

  15  Look for him or her in the dock (7)

  16  Big Latin container for 1ac (6)

  18  ‘He is a great master of gibes and flouts and ……’ Disraeli on Lord Salisbury (5)

  20  The Pink ‘un (4)

  22  Golfers’ target sounds like British dad (3)