Kim Jong-un, Boris Johnson and the end of the world feature in our roundup of the best cryptic clues
In the Telegraph, a puzzle which tradition suggests is by the setter known locally as Pasquale has one of those clues which could plausibly have come from the non-crossword part of the paper ...
17acPM facing testin respect of Boris Johnson at one time? (7)
[name of the PM + type of test]
[MAY + ORAL]
1ac It could be a buttonmother stitched on to second-hand jumper (8)
[synonym for ‘mother’ surrounding (‘stitched onto’) abbrev. for ‘second-hand’ & an animal that jumps (‘jumper’)]
[MUM surrounding SH & ROO]
5acThey bring wet, cold, thunderous showers at first (6)
[abbrev. for ‘cold’ + synonym for ‘thunderous’ + initial letter of SHOWERS (‘showers at first’)]
[C + LOUD + S]
19dYoungster put up with tacky stuff in order (6)
[reversal (‘put up’) of synonym for ‘youngster’ + synonym for ‘tacky stuff’)]
[KID backwards + TAT]
1. a. Originally: the word ‘fiat’ itself
1acAloofPiscean? (6)
[jocular synonym for ‘piscean’]