21 April 2022

Crossword by Boffles

No.321

                                                       

Across

    1  Island found when short officer teams up with whale (7)

    5  Ski resort famous for hot air (5)

    8  Unsatisfactory melon (5)

    9  Southern European area to which many taken against their will (7)

  10  Cycladic island produced by volcanic explosion (9)

  12  Island with its own iphone operating system? (3)

  13  Anne Bronte wrote about one such occupant (6)

  14  Dramatic Italian city (6)

  17  Old French coin required for solvency? (3)

  18  Mountain home of nine inspirational ladies (9)

  20  Brought up past problems to cause embarrassment (5,2)

  21  Designate designer brand (5)

  23  Nutty Dorothy (5)

  24  Henry I allegedly died from eating one of lampreys (7)

 

Down

    1  Where a statuesque armless lady was found (5)

    2  Preserve famously never available today (3)

    3  Exhausted analysis (3-4)

    4  US motown? (6)

    5  Call first rate tourist destination (5)

    6  Describes the lousy (9)

    7  Bird water city (7)

  11  Gran opens island for A list vacationers (9)

  13  Dearest confused when this (7)

  15  Someone who achieves results but not always good ones (7)

  16  Firmly holds English to produce complaints (6)

  18  Irish field? (5)

  19  Divided coastal city (5)

  22  ‘Where the ….. sucks, there suck I’  Shakespeare (3)