Crossword No. 212

19th March 2022 Going Postal Hobbies, Puzzles 2914 Comments

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ACROSS	DOWN
1&10 Woeful CD-ROM about Omicron seen in Davos… (5,8,5)	1 Nazi defence force march to the West (9)
4 …promotes slag doing limbo dancing! (9)	2 I get in ripe Italians – “all together now” (7)
9 Pee into hat? No hydrocarbons released! (7)	3 Short graduate, confused, is cross dressing (4)
11 Rick, the one like Diane Abbott! (7)	5 A routine gloom descends on one of Russia’s neighbouring regions… (5,8)
12 Give bottle of champagne to me… (4)	6 … like a desert after destructive raid (4)
13 .. it dispenses like soup, right? (5)	7 Smear as Starmer starts to wear pink (3,4)
14 ‘Gem’ found in lap of second woman (4)	8 ‘Mushroom’ over Rome caused by loony leader (5)
17 Scientist got corrupted by Islamic lot (13)	10 ..see 1
19 Putin pulls on string and changes the course of history (7,6)	15 ‘Soviet’ leader attacks bear with sword… (5)
21 Testing time for English leader taking Max from the rear! (4)	16 …while Biden starts to defend son from buffalo (5)
22 Flap over third Nazi ‘region’ (5)	18 Do ‘lurkers’ like terrible Sunday papers? (9)
23 Wound heals inside Ukraine’s carnage (4)	19 Rotates to cook bread (7)
26 Russia Today round table with combatant (7)	20 Include atomic particles? (7)
27 ‘Bi’, suave and violent! (7)	21 Wobble as Boris starts to withdraw support from arms crook (5)
28 Man makes air crews illegally drop bombs on civilians (3,6)	24 Ruble loses 20% in a flash! (4)
29 Two, four, six, seven? (5)	25 Insulted Ukranian leader sees red (4)

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Solution to Crossword No. 211

Across

1 Sanction 5 Used up 9 Actualité 11 Ousts 12 Trysts 13 Adoption 15 Cyber warriors 18 Marching order 22 Arsonist 23 Alaska 26 Clegg 27 Oligarchs 28 Delude 29 Skeptics

Down

1 Spastics 2 Nutty 3 Traitor 4 Omit 6 Scorpio 7 Dismissed 8 Posing 10 Enduring 14 Machismo 16 Bombshell 17 Arkansas 19 Reneged 20 Oil lamp 21 Rancid 24 Sochi 25 Nick

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