Crossword by Boffles

No.309

Across

1 Fab Easter egg producer (7)

5 Fine fashionista (5)

8 Lose liking for decay (2,3)

9 Very small large part of variant (7)

10 Change seeker not necessarily Ottoman (5,4)

12 Life saver West (3)

13 Rider is funny about 100 (6)

14 Shorts favoured by Chinese revolutionaries? (6)

17 The road 13dn lived on? (3)

18 Not easily understood game some people play with the opposite sex (4,2,3)

20 Veil and life of those who take it (7)

21 Crooked request for directions (5)

23 Metal deposits sound like a large quantity (5)

24 Did Hanover’s vote for himself? (7)

Down

1 Difficult to see when world traveller meets unknown (5)

2 The stingy host adds B to this (3)

3 Person fleeing country almost entirely what they are looking for (7)

4 Mass exit the subject of a book (6)

5 Symposia dry without it (5)

6 German rallying point (9)

7 Americans form a famous NY team (7)

11 Released – from prisoner work party? (9)

13 Satirical poet almost sounds young (7)

15 Scottish food recommended by Marie Antoinette? (7)

16 Mesopotamia said to be civilisation’s (6)

18 Goals you do not want to jump through (5)

19 Child Roland came to the dark one, we are told (5)

22 Young mink gets taken off (3)

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