August 2024 Puzzles

Across

• 6 Gimme calypso dancing as a celebration of sporting prowess (7,5)
• 7 The far-right regress on silly motto for 6 (6,6,8)
• 8 6 were here 12 years ago, lecturing primarily and working with university professor (6)
• 9 Level of Rome's river after partial emptying (4)
• 10 See 7
• 12 Snickers once matron - ha! - goes bananas (8)
• 16 Line extracted from their opening section (4)
• 18 Bowler could get hung up on it if the gap spreads (3,3)
• 20 Presidents' seating arrangements (6)
• 21 Stadium boxer weaves around using both hands (12)

Down

• 1 Audibly show disapproval with more weeping and manic behaviour (8)
• 2 Displays the raison d’être for 6 (6)
• 3 Oral test involves clinical updates, initially about eyes (6)
• 4 You'll only get this from 19 in 2 (4)
• 5 Previously returned sample from sufferer of Ebola (6)
• 6 Partially cook a pint-sized relation of the giraffe (5)
• 11 Storyteller managed to come back and inform on soldiers (8)
• 13 Oh no! Paratroopers are going inside giving signals (6)
• 14 See 7
• 15 Refinement of a Mediterranean city on the borders of Turkey (6)
• 17 It's holding the latest 6 pairs but swapping one pair round (5)
• 19 Labour spokesman's sheet of glass (4)