Quick crossword
No 16,496
Across
1 Slanted (4-5)
8 Soothsayer (4)
9 In confidence (9)
10 Make up a (political?) story (4)
13 Intense (5)
15 Derivation (6)
16 Coup d’état (6)
17 Severe reprimand (6)
19 City on Lac Léman, headquarters of the Red Cross (6)
20 Weapon with a blade (5)
21 Walk out (4)
24 Post receptacle (9)
25 Leave the stage (4)
26 Bootlicker (9)
Down
2 Stone between pavement and road (4)
3 Hand signal (4)
4 It secures a woman’s headgear (6)
5 Shot in the arm (6)
6 One dealing with boring paperwork (3-6)
7 Affecting the windpipe (9)
11 Familiar moniker – quiet orbs (anag) (9)
12 Mark over, under or through a letter (9)
13 Emotional feelings experienced instinctively (5)
14 Fooled (5)
18 Like well-off people in the countryside with an interest in horses, dogs etc? (6)
19 Got rot (anag) (6)
22 Patronising – impish (4)
23 Natural satellite of a planet (4)
Diversions
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2023-03-31T07:00:00.0000000Z
2023-03-31T07:00:00.0000000Z
https://theguardianweekly.pressreader.com/article/282557317464743
Guardian/Observer