Crossword by Boffles

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No.287

Across

1 Plain or of Solomon, perhaps (4)

3 Sort of non-believer (8)

9 Playthings you would be silly if you lost (7)

10 Make a hole in army routine (5)

11 Organ plus orchestra section can be tugged (12)

14 Consent given when asleep? (3)

16 4dn forms a protective layer (5)

17 Parisian street sounds like Robin’s friend (3)

18 Calculated by counting protons (6,6)

21 Something to bring up with the boss? (5)

22 Standard college class (7)

23 Old misdemeanours or worse (4,4)

24 Southern relations you have in the game? (4)

Down

1 The Italian or Leningrad, for example (8)

2 Opera found when French type loses direction (5)

4 Very amusing gossip (3)

5 Prehistoric rock? (3,4,5)

6 Armed man is dangerous when so happy (7)

7 Confined space is an instrument with nothing added (4)

8 State conductors and trains do not want to be in (12)

12 Tips receptacle the French pack (5)

13 Charon the last one to be paid (8)

15 Short songs are tidiest (7)

19 ‘I come from haunts of coot and hern’ Tennyson (5)

20 Cut harvest (4)

22 Keats wrote about one (3)

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