Crossword No. 246

10th December 2022 Going Postal Hobbies, Puzzles 2683 Comments

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ACROSS	DOWN
1&13 Soft Conservative leaders intertwined with socialist objectives (6,2,10)	1 ‘Wrath of Maggie’s leadership’ is much needed right now! (6)
5 UN is on side of strikers (6)	2 Anger at German leader: “everyone hates them”! (6)
9 Tory leader, Rishi, is ‘good and hard’, like most people posting on GP! (8)	3 Bent ‘Mo’ is from Bury (6)
10 Norfolk-based Green leader: “ I like anal”! (6)	4 Unionised jobs will end up putting insole in boot! (10)
11 Labour leader stuffs hamster down pants to keep warm… (8)	6 Einstein reincarnated 30 years ago! (8)
12 Thick as a plank Diane Abbott starts wearing vest! (6)	7 Boris starts to play violin: he’s finished! (8)
14 Keir starts to drink Fosters if industrial action is halted (7,3)	8 It’s a stalemate between socialist leader and toff (8)
18 Detached foot of trades union leaders: “ouch!” (3,2,5)	13 ..see 1
22 Cool cat attacks liberal’s head! (6)	15 Doubt about ‘flu? It’s debatable! (8)
23 A flurry of owls baked in flan (8)	16 Vigorously do ‘it’ in chalet! (8)
24 Looks like Diane Abbott is a plant! (6)	17 Lineswoman wearing coil supported by FIFA (8)
25 ‘Discharges’ when I join Labour and Tory leaders in gents… (8)	19 Conservative leader, twit, in hotel looking at birds! (6)
26 …all ‘cos I met them in pubs! (6)	20 Russian leader: “I will attack NATO a lot!” (6)
27 Do ‘Ethnics’ make good impressions? (8)	21 Orders signal to change (6)

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Solution to Crossword No. 245

Across

1 Out of Africa 7 Re-enter 8 Fat free 10 Prime 11 Whitewash 12 Royalty 14 Spastic 15 Toecaps 18 Jakarta 20 Out of cash 21 Kebab 22 Sirloin 23 Stirrer 24 Disgruntled

Down

1 Obesity 2 Title 3 Far away 4 Fifties 5 In the dark 6 Abreast 7 Reparations 9 Echo chamber 13 Leapfrogs 16 Entered 17 Scanner 18 Johnson 19 Re-bored 21 Krill

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