Crossword No. 242

12th November 2022 Going Postal Hobbies, Puzzles 3099 Comments

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ACROSS	DOWN
1&7 Churchillian phrase, still very appropriate for today’s dinghy invasion (2,5,5,2,3,7)	1&26 Promise made to those who fell in the service of our country (2,5,8,4)
8 Easy, like Prince Andrew apparently (2,5)	2 Raged (7)
9 Ebb away (7)	3 Pretending (6,3)
11 Pagan (7)	4 Observes (5)
12 Small prawns (7)	5 Temporary (7)
13 Tied up with twine (5)	6 Priest (4,3)
14 Longing for a special kind of food (9)	7 ..see 1
16 How to tell when you're high (9)	10&15 Churchillian call to stiffen our nation’s resolve (2,5,5,9)
19 Wrap (5)	15 ..see 10
21 Grasped (7)	17 Shipping capacity, or Diane Abbott’s weight measurement! (7)
23 A pain in the ‘organ’ (7)	18 Sickness (7)
24 Arena (7)	19 Sound like ex Twitter employees! (7)
25 Deadline (3,4)	20 Praise (7)
26 ..see 1	22 Discharge (5)

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Solution to Crossword No. 241

Across

1 Pissing 5 Swinger 9 Obesity 10 Optimum 11 Lionheart 12 Ether 13 Match 15 Kinkiness 17 Satirised 19 Debts 22 Child 23 Elephants 25 Banging 26 Ovulate 27 Gardens 28 Fathers

Down

1 Problem 2 See to it 3 Irish 4 Guy Fawkes 5 Short 6 In the wind 7 Gumshoe 8 Remarks 14 Hard drive 16 Nodded off 17 Sick bag 18 Thinner 20 Bandage 21 Sisters 23 Edges 24 Haunt

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