27 August 2015

Crossword by Boffles

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A Middle-Eastern flavour

Across

    1  Jewish lady commemorated in a Book for her drastic treatment of Holofernes (6)

    4  Civil and religious successor of Muhammad (6)

    9  How many were there? One wonders (5)

  10  Iran suspected of trying to make one (1-4)

  11  Harem garments, not an expression of derision (5)

  12  Monarchs of Iran (5)

  13  Buried with his mummy (11)

  18  Followers of Muhammad’s son-in-law (5)

  20  Rommel did not quite make it there (5)

  22  Grisly ISIL trophy (1,4)

  23  Site of conflict between 18ac and their Sunni rulers (7)

  24  Without couchant, an ME area (6)

  25  ‘A — of wine, a book of verse and thou’ Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (5)

 

Down

    1  Had to go Bethlehem to be counted (6)

    2  Turkish bureau furniture (5)

    3  Starting place of the Arab Spring (7)

    5  Gulf port captured by the eponymous Shaw (5)

    6  Controversial images (5)

    7  Language of 16dn (6)

    8  Dish not confined to the Middle East (5,6)

  14  What a number of Emirates did (5)

  15  A prop not available to Muslims (7)

  16  Does not enjoy good relations with its neighbours (6)

  17  Olive’s or Ararat? (5)

  19  Lebanese port (5)

  21  To be found in mosques (5)