Puzzle Solutions March 2019

Across

• 1 Back interns’ blunder (4-2)
• 4 Desert bloomer’s starting to flourish (2,3)
• 7 Lock place by the river (6)
• 8 Rich girl avoids penny-pinching (6)
• 9 An All Black’s version of wiki (4)
• 10 Break in new edition of Preston Pages as shunning extremes of gossip about Northern political leaders (8)
• 12 Pompous, drunk in-flight attendant unbuttons her tops (11)
• 17 Work with charity inviting one leader of Liberia for growth in Africa (3,5)
• 19 Standard drill of the torpedo reversing (4)
• 20 Edison’s iffy position on field for which no free kick is awarded (6)
• 21 Classic and primarily inspirational- like the Pyramid, perhaps? (6)
• 22 Fakes inhaling drug could be chaps from New York (5)
• 23 Stones magically starting to gyrate at sea (6)

Down

• 1 From the Isle of Skye, many go out inebriated (7)
• 2 Picturing what one might say at each birthday, maybe? (7)
• 3 Irreverent, belligerent roamer left our mutual friend in doldrums (9)
• 4 Organisms ultimately causing dengue fever, botulism and tuberculosis (5)
• 5 Sequence from “Terminator” I gamified is, on paper, a work of art (7)
• 6 Soot has soiled zip on top (3-3)
• 11 Engaging line about a covert operation (9)
• 13 Sullied, battered and mistreated (3-4)
• 14 Clumsy untutored journalist dropped dress (7)
• 15 Jerks performed twist after returning home (7)
• 16 What an atheist asserts about love is worthless (2,4)
• 18 Danes organised summits (5)