| ACROSS | DOWN |
|---|---|
| 1&6 A useless activity, urologically and meteorologically speaking! (7,2,3,4) | 1&22 A messed up kid, just like Greta (7,5) |
| 5 A promiscuous spouse-swapper (7) | 2 Make sure something happens (3,2,2) |
| 9 Diane Abbott’s corpulence! (7) | 3 From e.g. Dublin or Cork (5) |
| 10 The ideal solution (7) | 4 He’s going up in flames tonight! (3,6) |
| 11 My braver Royal namesake! (9) | 5 Spirit (5) |
| 12 Anaesthetic substance (5) | 6 ..see 1 |
| 13 Incendiary article (5) | 7 An American private detective (7) |
| 15 Deviancy displayed here on Friday evenings! (9) | 8 Comments usually unread! (7) |
| 17 Had the mickey taken out of (9) | 14 Location in laptop of evidence about Hunter Biden (4,5) |
| 19 Financial obligations (5) | 16 Fell asleep (6,3) |
| 22 ..see 1 | 17 Vomit receptacle (4,3) |
| 23 The pachyderms rarely spotted in rooms by politicians or journalists (9) | 18 White spirit unlike Diane Abbott! (7) |
| 25 Noisy thumping (7) | 20 Wound dressing (7) |
| 26 Produce eggs (7) | 21 Female siblings (7) |
| 27 As found in Eden and Babylon (7) | 23 Boundaries (5) |
| 28 According to Lammy, the thing that most young black criminals miss the most? (7) | 24 A place visited frequently by ghostly activity? (5) |
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Solution to Crossword No. 240
Across
6 Rasheed Sanook 8 Idlers 9 Boat race 10 Tea 11 Yo ho ho 12 Leaflets 14 Iced tea 16 Terrier 20 Air force 23 Odious 24 Sex 25 Diarists 26 Intake 27 Yorkshire grit
Down
1 Asteroid 2 Keystone 3 Oddball 4 Banana 5 Bovril 6 Radioactivity 7 Kick the bucket 13 For 15 Two 17 Epoxides 18 Roisters 19 Cesspit 21 Furore 22 Resist
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