30 July 2015

Crossword by Boffles

Cheers

 

 

Across

1 Beer that went down well in part of the Empire (3)

    3  Add VS and you have a quality brandy (2)

    5  Rice wines (5)

  10  Variety of sherry (7)

  11  Whisky galore island (5)

  12  Bond liked his shaken, not stirred (5,7)

  15  Madeira popular in India because it survived this voyage (3)

  17  Yo ho ho and … (3)

  18  The cup that cheers but never inebriates (3)

  19  Chianti is such a wine (6)

  20  Continental beer measure (5)

  23  French consumption of this said to be dropping but is still formidable (2,3)

  24  Spirit which does not speed one up, we hear (4,3)

  25  Like them, the drink of the gods is this (8)

  26  Type of champagne commonly drunk (4)

 

Down

    2  A cocktail when you add the name of a Queen but a better-known one describes her in a more sinister way (5)

    4  Rather fake term for fizz (3)

    5  Right bank area and home of Cheval Blanc (5,7)

    6  Origin of a universal soft drink (4,3)

    7  Home of Talisker (4)

    8  Vendange is the grape one (7)

    9  Peerless Burgundy (7,5)

  13  Yoghurt based drink popular in Turkey (5)

  14  Can be Sauvignon or Franc (8)

  16  Scandinavians drink it to lessen the gloom (7)

  21  Always time for this Singapore beer (5)

  22  Base of slivovitz (4)

  24  Where you need to go after over-indulging (3)