17 September 2015

Crossword by Boffles

Plain Vanilla

Across

    1  Greeting loses a life for saintly circle (4)

    3  X-factor possessed by someone who has a cleaning lady mother (8)

    9  Stories often have one (5)

  10  Needed to buy bread as well as to make it (5)

  11  Gordon and George – party animals (5)

  12  Viscount Greystoke (6)

  14  Naughty but nice? (6)

  16  Classical wanderer (6)

  19  Code word for a nonentity (6)

  21  Scholar’s opinion unpopular with Salman Rushdie (5)

  24  Unfortunate Tigris city (5)

  25  The sharp end of the IOW (7)

  26  Bohemian drink (8)

  27  Rhett Butler frankly did not give one (4)

 

Down

    1  A duchess did before Waterloo (3,1,4)

    2  Uncertainty created by an arm or a leg with nothing added (5)

    4  Life was hard in Sparta – particularly for them (6)

    5  Aircraft tracker (5)

    6  This sort of machine does not cater for the individual (7)

    7  A bit of a pain (4)

    8  Credit one left us all feeling a bit crushed (6)

  13  Lethal follower of the Old Man of the Mountain (8)

  15  Classical wanderer (7)

  17  Engineer towering above others (6)

  18  A nasty jolt when a girl embraces right (6)

  20  Root cause of the wanderings of 15dn and 16ac (5)

  22  OK city a day away (5)

  23  Ack or Pip? (4)