| ACROSS | DOWN |
|---|---|
| 1 Blogs for short muslims? (6) | 1&25 Last night’s shenanigans! (8,6) |
| 4 ..see 2 | 2&4 Air rifle aimed at Coldplay, need to improve stop and search (8,8) |
| 9 Small and racy actor is good! (2-4) | 3 Phil’s favourite singer – not! (9) |
| 10 Boris and Carrie? (2,3,3) | 5 Republican leader gets a new URL when he’s out of town (5) |
| 12 African ‘animal’ jostles short Pakistani with tip of ‘organ’ (5) | 6 Starmer’s sitting on cuts to defence (5) |
| 13 Illinois prefers shoplifters (9) | 7 Impel Tory leader to cling on… (6) |
| 15 One day on Mars… (3) | 8 …but Diane’s shortly set on stopping him! (6) |
| 16 Labour leader is sure to create laws (5) | 11 Poised to show palm to Boris’s leadership (6) |
| 17 To roar like Churchill (6) | 14 Healthy, but fail to get it! (3) |
| 22 Yes, Yes, turn ‘beeb’ off! (3,3) | 18 Images used to discriminate against elderly (6) |
| 24 Tory leader Boris starts to get head from Hancock – that hurts! (5) | 19 Unrobe to display tum in swamp (9) |
| 27 Three lots of Uranium found in left and right of Australian rock (5) | 20 Conservatives on tour? They’re toast! (8) |
| 28 Tiredness overcomes GP regulars (9) | 21 Quickly achieve the end of EU, Boris’s leadership and Labour party? (8) |
| 31 “No” to getting in pub (3) | 23 Hislop’s or Japanese organ? (3) |
| 32 Shock! Abbott gets laid on tarmac! (8) | 25 ..see 1 |
| 33 ..see 29 | 26 An ape’s arrived in Spain (6) |
| 34 Danes eat rye on 31st December… (4,4) | 29&33 FFRC (5,6) |
| 35 … then curtsy if the edge is too hard! (6) | 30 Water nymph comes from India (5) |
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Solution to Crossword No. 172
Across
1 Hijacking 9 Orange 10 Henry Ford 11 Bigots 12 Camp David 13 Myself 17 Ami 19 Belarus 20 Ryanair 21 Pie 23 Taunts 27 Assailant 28 No hope 29 Caregiver 30 Thesis 31 Alexander
Down
2 Ice cap 3 Abrupt 4 Kaftan 5 Narcism 6 A rainy day 7 Income tax 8 Ceasefire 14 Obstinate 15 Slaughter 16 Arctophil 17 Asp 18 Ire 22 Install 24 Bayeux 25 Albion 26 Annexe
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