3 August 2023

Crossword by Boffles

No.358

Across

    1  Crazy sort of military formation that follows the game (5)

    4  Club man batsman may have to deal with (7)

    8  Parade ground instruction to indent for munitions? (5,4)

    9  One side (3)

  10  The bird batsmen dread getting (4)

  11  Animal Elvis sang about pleonastically (5,3)

  13  Sensible headgear when facing pacemen (6)

  14  Draw them and the match is finished (6)

  17  His catcher too self- obsessed to play (8)

  19  Boundary spinners hope to catch (4)

  22  One side (3)

  23  Transformations are what bowlers do? (9)

  24  Distressed loses direction from the start and was nearly sick (7)

  25  There’s such a race each season to win it (5)

Down

    1  Wide bowler (5)

    2  Revolutionary unlikely in the pavilion at Lords (7)

    3  Spun and not just by cricketers (4)

    4  Town pilots do not want to go for a beer? (6)

    5  American institution on the Hill full of members over it (2,6)

    6  Match atmosphere helped by a good large number of people (5)

    7  Asylum seekers without English and what they seek (7)

  12  Unsung Calypso, for example (3,5)

  13  Pushy salesman probably making something on the side (7)

  15  ‘ Of all  the glad New-year, mother, the ……..merriest day’ Tennyson (7)

  16  Fresh child found on the block (3,3)

  18  Play will stop if it is bad (5)

  20  When one innings ends, another will probably (5)

  21  Money is of all evil, we are told (4)