August Puzzles and Solutions

Crossword

Across

• 8 They could start with who creates allusive wordplay (8,7)
• 9 Hot-headed victor got unexpectedly laconic (8)
• 10 Young flier is permitted after age is adjusted (6)
• 11 Outwardly exhausted and generally extremely nervous (4)
• 12 Autodidactic thug felt as awkward (4-6)
• 13Husband gripped by foolish case of sloth then joining with hesitation (15)
• 15 Loud then quiet conversations about right diagram (10)
• 16 Dad’s sister’s tuna salad (4)
• 17 Jewish town is beginning to sympathize with the alternative theatrical fringe (6)
• 18 Seem confused after retired copper says sorry (6,2)
• 20 Criminal goes to Greek island with forests and cities (8,7)

Down

• 1 Younger of two siblings getting cover for senility (6,9)
• 2 Bow during ironic call to arms (3,3)
• 3 Oven’s unlikely contents rising (4)
• 4 Furiously clean her nippers’ classroom equipment (6,9)
• 5 New enlistee pursues 150 sets of customers (10)
• 6 People that cannot agree are keen to welcome judicious union leaders (4,4)
• 7 A means of getting hold of someone’s peel on the bananas’ bunch (9,6)
• 12 Islands come out with bombs, so we’re told (10)
• 14 Author’s order concerning new chapter with strange ending (8)
• 16 Allocate under the name of Leo, possibly (6)
• 19 Stick tip of lance into young animal (4)