23 July 2015
Crossword by Boffles
A spot of literature
1 Leading romantic novelist (6)
3 Description of elusive Dickens character (6)
8 Mental torment was endured under a Mexican one (7)
10 Gerontius’ was set to music (5)
11 Enjoyed with Rosie (5)
12 Successfully chronicled (6)
13 Author of ‘ Vile Bodies’ among other books (6,5)
18 A marmalade cat is not the subject of this high-brow novel (7)
20 Worth waiting for? (5)
22 Well- known riverbank dweller (5)
23 One of his works dealt with war and its opposite (7)
24 Linked with men in New York stories (5)
25 Scrooge was by the Christmas Ghosts (6)
Down
1 Lord Chesterfield was full of this: e.g.’Take the tone of the company you are in’ (6)
2 Atticus Finch perhaps no longer to be considered such a citizen after publication of ‘ Go Set a Watchman’ (5)
4 Name of tired-looking author of ‘King Solomon’s Mines’ (5)
5 Did he form a bond with his readers? (7)
6 Likeable friend of Coleridge and Wordsworth? (4)
7 Orwell was in both Paris and London (4,3,3)
9 The cruellest month (5)
14 Jeeves was Bertie’s (5)
15 Wordsworth described light thus (7)
16 Author of ‘Nostromo’ among other books (6)
17 Fanny Price did at Mansfield Park (6)
19 Negative and affirmative author of ‘ Under the dancing feet lie the graves’ (5)
21 The Hound of the Baskervilles did not Holmes (5)
1 Leading romantic novelist (6)
3 Description of elusive Dickens character (6)
8 Mental torment was endured under a Mexican one (7)
10 Gerontius’ was set to music (5)
11 Enjoyed with Rosie (5)
12 Successfully chronicled (6)
13 Author of ‘ Vile Bodies’ among other books (6,5)
18 A marmalade cat is not the subject of this high-brow novel (7)
20 Worth waiting for? (5)
22 Well- known riverbank dweller (5)
23 One of his works dealt with war and its opposite (7)
24 Linked with men in New York stories (5)
25 Scrooge was by the Christmas Ghosts (6)
Down
1 Lord Chesterfield was full of this: e.g.’Take the tone of the company you are in’ (6)
2 Atticus Finch perhaps no longer to be considered such a citizen after publication of ‘ Go Set a Watchman’ (5)
4 Name of tired-looking author of ‘King Solomon’s Mines’ (5)
5 Did he form a bond with his readers? (7)
6 Likeable friend of Coleridge and Wordsworth? (4)
7 Orwell was in both Paris and London (4,3,3)
9 The cruellest month (5)
14 Jeeves was Bertie’s (5)
15 Wordsworth described light thus (7)
16 Authorof ‘Nostromo’ among other books (6)
17 Fanny Price did at Mansfield Park (6)
19 Negative and affirmative author of ‘ Under the dancing feet lie the graves’ (5)
21 The Hound of the Baskervilles did not Holmes (5)
1 Leading romantic novelist (6)
3 Description of elusive Dickens character (6)
8 Mental torment was endured under a Mexican one (7)
10 Gerontius’ was set to music (5)
11 Enjoyed with Rosie (5)
12 Successfully chronicled (6)
13 Author of ‘ Vile Bodies’ among other books (6,5)
18 A marmalade cat is not the subject of this high-brow novel (7)
20 Worth waiting for? (5)
22 Well- known riverbank dweller (5)
23 One of his works dealt with war and its opposite (7)
24 Linked with men in New York stories (5)
25 Scrooge was by the Christmas Ghosts (6)
Down
1 Lord Chesterfield was full of this: e.g.’Take the tone of the company you are in’ (6)
2 Atticus Finch perhaps no longer to be considered such a citizen after publication of ‘ Go Set a Watchman’ (5)
4 Name of tired-looking author of ‘King Solomon’s Mines’ (5)
5 Did he form a bond with his readers? (7)
6 Likeable friend of Coleridge and Wordsworth? (4)
7 Orwell was in both Paris and London (4,3,3)
9 The cruellest month (5)
14 Jeeves was Bertie’s (5)
15 Wordsworth described light thus (7)
16 Authorof ‘Nostromo’ among other books (6)
17 Fanny Price did at Mansfield Park (6)
19 Negative and affirmative author of ‘ Under the dancing feet lie the graves’ (5)
21 The Hound of the Baskervilles did not Holmes (5)
