Crossword by Boffles

No.365

Across

1 Mother’s dear Italian cosmetic (7)

5 Young reporter and his boss multiplied three times (5)

8 Western dish? (9)

9 ‘There is some …. a-brewing towards my rest. For I did dream of money-bags tonight’. Shakespeare (3)

10 Armed Services tuckshop unfashionable, we hear (5)

12 Protection for Labour’s heartland? (3,4)

13 Roman inspired victory monument (9,4)

15 French bottler of cat’s piss? (7)

17 Artist who brought it home (5)

19 Eastern philosophical concept – thanks for nothing! (3)

20 Hateful Tehran bro (9)

22 Rope maker formed from sails (5)

23 Merchants sounding like underground storage (7)

Down

1 Was Perry one? (5)

2 Dead or Black, perhaps (3)

3 Practised by non-believers (7)

4 Later ideas (13)

5 Unrepentant, Liberace did all the way to the bank (5)

6 Curios begun by Brazil, Russia, India and China (4-1-4)

7 Treacherous scissors wielder (7)

11 Political stirrers (9)

13 Unspoken America historian (7)

14 According to Gilbert, everyone born is a little one or a little conservative (7)

16 Computerised communication (5)

18 Our denial (3,2)

21 Woman led astray the day before (3)

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