13 August 2015

Crossword by Boffles

This Sporting Life

 

Across

    1  Pistol loses right to slide down ice (4)

    3  The Gunners won (3,5)

    8  Expression of derision but essential in many sports (5)

  10  Part of anatomy used by footballers in breach of the rules (5)

  11  Currently our hero (8,4)

  13  You do not need to be a member of a club to own one (6)

  14  What you need after tossing the caber? (6)

  16  Skating prerequisite (3)

  18  Sort of final Andy lost (4)

  19  F1 prerequisite (3)

  22  Famous athlete shares something with Jesse James (5)

  23  What a bowman has to do but not in an eight (4,3)

  24  In golf, a good one is welcome (3)

  25  The big one of multi-sport competitions (9)

 

Down

    1  Zodiac sign and sailors with daughter for gym kit (8)

    2  Do you need a degree in chatting to go to this ground? (5)

    4  11ac plays this? Mais non! (6,7)

    5  Competition is of sport (3)

    6  Tennis can be played on other surfaces (4)

    7  Discredited head of discredited organisation (7)

    9  What you do (some of the time) at Cowes (4)

  12  Colleague of the twelfth one (5,3)

  15  Does it require written answers? (4)

  17  Are you given one to play 20dn? (3)

  19  Stroke but not of an eight (5)

  20  Played on a table, not in the water (4)

  21  Coloured 8ac are for 20 dn (4)