Sunday Express Prize Crossword Monday July 18Th 2022

[lorenzo4]

1a flavourless starter just awful 9letters
12a painting back in possession of original creole painter 2 words
19a a group of five taken in by a turk b?v?
2d trickster ending good trick
3d joke about northern group 4 letters
4d inebriates eighth beer story 4 letters
5d german and omani face ruin ??d?8
8d daft sheep returning from a plant ?m?r?l?i?
22d stake a foursome inside planted a??e

[Captain2]

Flavourless starter (initial letter) + F + Rightful = Just/fair

[Blubster]

Apologies for my answer - jumped the gun a bit there.

It's the heat, you know. :)

[Hazlinny]

1a ^^ think it is frightful - letter "f" start of flavourless, rightful meaning just.

[Captain2]

Yep ;0))))