| ACROSS | DOWN |
|---|---|
| 1 Swarm killed top civil servant (4,7) | 1 Iranian leaders all turn to mush! (7) |
| 9 Secret (lie) about Covid hotspot (9) | 2 Their old BBC leader (5) |
| 10 Tory leader in hot ‘poo’ over picture (5) | 3 His original rocket was seven tons (9) |
| 11 Newcastle boss off the leash? Yes! (6) | 4 Tax on Democratic Unionist and Tory leaders? Yes! (4) |
| 12 A tension develops about cabinet composition (8) | 5 Annoyingly rare, I get tit! (8) |
| 13 Has Queen’s head in a crush (6) | 6 Putin confuses Tory and Labour leaders – what a plant! (5) |
| 15 It’s Gore for Democrat! That’s too much to swallow! (8) | 7 Liverpool scores in U.S. (7) |
| 18 Eastern dog goes for monk through door (8) | 8 CIA applies volts to make her ‘sing’ (8) |
| 19,18&28 Boris’s offer to Hong Kong: Untie pint-sized Chi and make Dom king! (6,7,11) | 14 Royal Kate has jiggling rump! (2-6) |
| 21 So Tehran is positioned between the UK and Europe (5,3) | 16 Dung spread by nationalist leader (anon) in Tyrone (9) |
| 23 China builds a yacht (6) | 17 Morse was set in English county (8) |
| 26 Armed fantasy! (5) | 18 ..see 19 |
| 27 Christen using front of Pope’s ‘ring’ (9) | 20 Take a short vacation in a dry pit (3,4) |
| 28 ..see 19 | 22 Chum and I get soiled! (5) |
| 24 Coupling leads to hot itch! (5) | |
| 25 Swiss joins Arizona to create BLM homeland (4) |
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Last week’s winner. 124 jgm2 ( I really will get the mugs sent out this week).
Answers with next week’s crossword.
Solution to Crossword No. 124
Across
7 474143254 8 20500 10 19487171 11 111107 12 1000 13 10000000 15 1906624 17 1331000 20 38693589 22 9933 25 164404 26 66622255 27 42025 28 220008855
Down
1 67097 2 510800 3 73817082 4 4561111 5 10010001 6 101010101 9 5180 14 697886121 16 62984828 18 39916800 19 1906624 21 5040 23 362880 24 15252
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