| ACROSS | DOWN |
|---|---|
| 1 ..see 23 | 1 Lose, go out, ham thrown onto end of football pitch! (9) |
| 4 ‘Acid’ injected into Mayor damages heart muscles (9) | 2 Hard to find, Elvis hides in the EU! (7) |
| 9 Rotherham ‘men’ grab arse on bus! (7) | 3 Committed to diet (4) |
| 11 .. see 23 | 5 No one in Islamabad is a terrorist! (5,3,5) |
| 12 Letter from Lima? (4) | 6 Monkeying around with peas! (4) |
| 13 Mooning Labour leader shows front of arse at United Nations…(5) | 7 “Dies” is a way of pushing them up! (7) |
| 14 …while jiggling loin to display ‘growler’! (4) | 8 ..see 23 |
| 17 Hunt’s arse in line to be ‘out of this world’! (13) | 10 Messi will probably win the World Cup for them, it's all an amateurish con! (5,8) |
| 19 SOS - missile got misdirected, see the earth move! (13) | 15 Nether regions clad in iron? Good! (5) |
| 21 Communist kissed the rear end of a ram! (4) | 16 Find out how heavy Diane’s arse is, hot, wearing wig! (5) |
| 22 Rated highly for international sales (5) | 18 Hard times ahead as small Tory leader invites Yuri to tea! (9) |
| 23,11,1&8 Trump will go gaga and have mania to retake Crimea (4,7,5,5) | 19 Reptile given as present (7) |
| 26 I’m unconvinced by pickets (7) | 20 Set to receive anal ‘filler’… (7) |
| 27 Far right, I am in the North American zone (3,4) | 21 … Emirs are very tight! (5) |
| 28 Retire and learn a new skill? (9) | 24 Sicilian hot head? (4) |
| 29 Gateway to New York used by terrorist leaders (5) | 25 It is inevitably shattered by the England football team! (4) |
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Solution to Crossword No. 242
Across
1 We shall fight 8 No sweat 9 Outflow 11 Heathen 12 Shrimps 13 Baled 14 Opsomania 16 Altimeter 19 Shawl 21 Handled 23 Earache 24 Stadium 25 Due date 26 Remember them
Down
1 We shall 2 Seethed 3 Acting out 4 Looks 5 Interim 6 Holy man 7 On the beaches 10 We shall never 15 Surrender 17 Tonnage 18 Malaise 19 Screech 20 Acclaim 22 Demob
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