September Puzzles

Crossword

By Hasslethymi

Across

• 1 Welsh representative audibly let slip (4)
• 3 Suits ringfencing Tyneside's profits (8)
• 8 Dubious plastic confetti scattered around church (9)
• 10 Years are rolled back (3)
• 11 Dicky eluding humour (7)
• 12 Redhead meets alien that is secure again (5)
• 13 You can virtually read them from cover to cover (6)
• 15 Lower back carries a bedsore in part (6)
• 17 Auntie oddly takes on particle (5)
• 18 Joints worked free by Queen and head of state (7)
• 20 Biblical character's fate (3)
• 21 Milky drink without golden and extremely terrific biscuit (9)
• 22 Drew attention to risen puddings (8)
• 23 Fish feels topless (4)

Down

• 1 Not so much boxing in dreary musical (13)
• 2 One point in the lead (5)
• 4 Man had following, and so on, cut (6)
• 5 Stretching green mantle is out of order (11)
• 6 I earn it in exchange for laziness (7)
• 7 Lack of form strangely pleases heartless oustiders joining head (13)
• 9 Listen, I seek blasted independent transportation (11)
• 14 One who forgets hiding in vomit terror (7)
• 16 One who tweets primarily on Republican issues or libertarian economics (6)
• 19 Obliterate the home counties after a time (5)