| 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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Answers with next week’s crossword.
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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