Crossword No. 137

26th September 2020 Going Postal Hobbies, Puzzles 3758 Comments

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ACROSS	DOWN
7 “Blacks out” is latest Marxist movement! (9)	1 Fifth royal to go on stage? (5)
8 ..see 15	2 Let Hamilton lead in tragic Danish event (6)
10 Roll served with dish is quite dry (8)	3 Direst performance as Priti Patel starts to get her kit off! (8)
11 Rave on about Italian city (6)	4 ..see 15
12 Mounted on a pot? (4)	5 Scrapping VAT, Boris starts to show English leadership (8)
13 I push it up colon of bat (8)	6 Danes quit! It’s all in pieces! (9)
15,8&4 Shakespearean commentary on coronavirus? (4,3,5,7)	9 Joined French in cave (4)
17 On the menu, but minced deer’s off (7)	14 Diane Abbott is usually ushering in Tory leader (9)
20 Resent that I gained victory over reggae (8)	16 Boxers gets off with ‘ho’ – they’re animals on the road (5,3)
22 Teachers reveal their inner pain (4)	18 French leader on top of camel, dancing! (8)
25 ..see 27	19 African, Othello, almost Shakespeare’s first? (7)
26 ..see 28	21 Consumes food in sweatshirt? (4)
27&25 Is Italy OK in EU? It’s preferred! (2,3,4,2)	23 Knocking shop shame is the end of Starmer (6)
28&26 Boris’s farcical Covid performance? (3,6,2,6)	24 ‘Ripe’ Diane started gay carnival (5)

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Solution to Crossword No. 136

Across

1 Is there life on 10 In chief 11 Novella 12 Apex 13 Relic 14 Dieu 17 Fade out 18 Grows on 19 Orbiter 22 Voyager 24 Tsar 25 Stars 26 Otic 29 Entrain 30 Invoice 31 Crash landings

Down

2 Succeed 3 Hair 4 Reflect 5 Lending 6 Five 7 Oil rigs 8 Final frontier 9 Saturn V rocket 15 Lofty 16 Polyp 20 Blaster 21 Retinal 22 Version 23 G-string 27 Mars 28 XVII

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