Across
Old play I’m organising in place of games | OLYMPIA |
Exonerate cold Shakespearean monarch | CLEAR |
Nitre exploding in Bury | INTER |
Gold beats yttrium in stiff test | AUTOPSY |
Impact golden girl makes hard to predict | HITORMISS |
Money-box? | TIN |
Boxer’s foot? | PAW |
Posh females et cetera in pub that serves food | BUFFETCAR |
Watch ever so dodgy with second-class interior | OBSERVE |
Either way note clear doctrine | TENET |
I love wearing stupid expression | IDIOM |
Irritation of King George trapped by succession | CHAGRIN |
Ancient Greek plain | OLYMPIA |
Unambiguous | CLEAR |
Inhume | INTER |
Post-mortem | AUTOPSY |
Random | HITORMISS |
Metal element | TIN |
Handle clumsily | PAW |
Restaurant carriage | BUFFETCAR |
Witness | OBSERVE |
Principle | TENET |
Colloquialism | IDIOM |
Discomfiture | CHAGRIN |
Down
Refinement in European language | POLISH |
Unwanted mass in Mercy Street | CYST |
Joint description of Eve’s origin | SPARERIB |
Adult female in dress for hunting trip | SAFARI |
Church leaving whisky for highlander | SCOT |
Oppressive cops tied in knots | DESPOTIC |
Children’s writer Ray in swindle | CRAYON |
East Ender has joint in urban area | TOWNSHIP |
Ghastly plaster spread over carpet initially | SPECTRAL |
Fear ferret one father keeps | PHOBIA |
Nice language: it’s Nancy’s too! | FRENCH |
Seaman in position | RATING |
Average man? | NORM |
Burnish | POLISH |
Growth | CYST |
Cut of pork | SPARERIB |
African adventure | SAFARI |
Glaswegian, e.g. | SCOT |
Tyrannical | DESPOTIC |
Wax pencil | CRAYON |
Poor suburb | TOWNSHIP |
Like a ghost | SPECTRAL |
Irrational aversion | PHOBIA |
European tongue | FRENCH |
Ordinary sailor | RATING |
Italian capital | ROME |
Social standard | NORM |