28 June 2018
Crossword by Boffles
No.160
Across
1 Shellfish that will stop talking if you add up (4)
3 Fish becomes exclamation of surprise if divine (8)
9 Little bites that go with drinks (7)
10 Instrument vital to Bach? (5)
11 Emasculate United Nations representative? (5)
12 You can take a gamble going here (6)
14 Weighing machine for fish? (6)
16 Said when a delicious meal is in prospect (3-3)
19 Staple food shop (6)
21 A man does so as he sows according to the saying (5)
24 Posh and deadly vessel (1-4)
25 Greedy motorist (7)
27 Down-under state capital with a royal connection (8)
28 Has the crust to cross picket lines (4)
Down
1 Britain has endured both a Roman and a Norman one (8)
2 Collection of, for example, songs or photographs (5)
4 Lorraine’s partner (6)
5 Sailors and Scouts teach how not to get tied up in them (5)
6 Time when a substitute exercises the monarch’s powers (7)
7 Fast period (4)
8 What you take when you commit to something contemplated with anxiety (6)
13 Festive season (4)
15 Seaman on his own for an edible mollusc (7)
17 Hubbub or hullabaloo (6)
18 Car that is not entirely one thing or the other (6)
20 Run made without the ball hitting the bat (5)
22 Makeshift Latin (2,3)
23 Nice salad ingredient (4)
26 Good conversationalists have the gift of it (3)
