Tim Moorey’s Quick Crossword No.1100
A bottle of Taylor’s Late Bottled Vintage will be given to the sender of the first correct solution opened on 2 May 2022. By post: send to MoneyWeek’s Quick Crossword No.1100, 121-141 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London W2 6JR. By email: scan or photograph completed solution and coupon and email to: crossword@ moneyweek.com with MoneyWeek Crossword No.1100 in the subject field.
ACROSS
1 Substitute who doesn’t sit out! (5-2)
5 Cold leaving chest tender (5)
8 Eastern starter that should contain eggs? (5-4, 4)
9 A long time inside Northanger Abbey (3)
10 Bound drunk got bailed (9)
12 One sharing the billing with new actors (2-4)
13 Brave Papa favoured (6)
16 Lions meet to play significant event (9)
18 Sick in US state (3)
20 Tories point up fantastic prospects (13)
22 Subject of article by yours truly (5)
23 Samples end of pint – Flowers (7)
DOWN
1 Light fencing sword (5)
2 Outstanding amounts (7)
3 Sales (9)
4 Sewing instrument (6)
5 Choose (3)
6 Foremost line in battles (5)
7 Quickly (7)
11 Rooms for art exhibitions (9)
12 Organic material used as fertiliser (7)
14 French cooking (7)
15 Strong and healthy (6)
17 A failure of, say, memory (5)
19 Endures (5)
21 One of the Cinque ports (3)
Solutions to 1098
Across 1 Singlet single T in mater 5 Bitch bit + ch 8 Intending in t ending 9 Nan two definitions 10 Solve in sole 12 Masseur mass + Eur 13 Anaesthetised anagram indicated by ground 15 Eyeball homophone 17 Knead homophone 19 Ado hidden 20 Tarantula anagram 22 Elder (w) elder 23 Hangers h + Angers. Down 1 Slips 2 Net 3 Lancers 4 Triumphal arch 5 Bogus 6 Tennessee 7 Hundred 11 Leasehold 13 Average 14 Taken in 16 Astir 18 Deans 21 Use.