10/03/2020

Across: 1 Distress; 5 Lord; 9 Char; 10 Rashness; 11 Plain; 12 Plumage; 13 Bright rose-red; 18 Notation; 19 Idea; 20 Sunbeam; 21 Worth; 22 When; 23 Proceeds. Down: 2 Inhaler; 3 Turning; 4 Star performer; 6 Open-air; 7 Descend; 8 Shouts; 13 Bandsaw; 14 Intense; 15 Hither; 16 Epitome; 17 Ejected. 22. Hefty blow knocks 150 unconscious! (5) 23. Bill waxing vocal? (7) 24. Aiming not to be called a miss (2,3,6)

ACROSS

5. Boast (4)

7. Salad dressing (10)

8. Virtuous (4)

10. Fail, informally (4)

12. Whiskey grain (3)

13. Knitted garment (6)

16. Molten rock (5)

18. Intention (3)

20. Broad smile (4)

21. Enthusiasm, excitement (4)

22. Limb (3)

24. Rage (5)

25. Showing kindliness (6)

26. Joke, informally (3)

27. Sagacious (4)

29. Stop (4)

33. Very bad or unpleasant (10)

34. Lacking fat (4)

DOWN

The flower of instruments? (5)

Not all the colonel’s men get regulated diet and exercise (7) Observe it once perhaps (6) Happen to put dog on inside of rock (5) Anger in getting paid for working? (7) Overtake dandy to evade responsibility? (4,3,4) Odd way to bring about financial difficulties? (5,6)

14. Harass severe old woman into swallowing ring (7)

16. A learner takes sweetheart everywhere (3,4)

17. Maybe silent way to join up (6)

19. Marriage results from sporting contest? (5)

21. String taken from tip-top alcoholic beverage (5) 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

DOWN

1. Feline (3)

2. Hair from sheep (4)

3. Simple card game (4)

4. Cease living (3)

5. Beseech (3)

6. Great pain (5)

9. Snatches (5)

10. Of a woman (6)

11. Undergarment (3)

13. Country (5)

14. Thin paste (4)

15. Come into view (6)

17. Prayer ending (4)

19. Phase (5)

23. Concert, informally (3)

25. Bright flame or fire (5)

27. Vagary (4)

28. Slight quarrel (4)

30. Shade of brown (3)

31. Baby’s bed (3)

32. Moose (3)