1 October 2015

Crossword by Boffles

The darker side of  life

Across

    1  Stopper said to be liked by football managers (4)

    3  Killer who had nothing to do with up-market auctioneers (8)

    9  Britain fought over it and De Quincey ate it (5)

  10  Serbian paramilitary thug (5)

  11  Falsehood (3)

  12  Jeffrey Archer and Chris Huhne for example (2-4)

  14  Common aim of hostage takers (6)

  16  Cake making royal pretender? (6)

  18  Genocide location (6)

  20  ‘Our thing’ but found in the USA and Italy rather than here (5)

  23  Spanish terrorist group (3)

  24  No seaside fun on this beach (5)

  25  Even 19dn had to drink this kind of coffee at the end of WW2 (6)

  26  The Devil makes work for these hands (4)

 

Down

    1  Common household crime (8)

    2  You do not want this around your neck (5)

    4  Descriptive of 2dn (6)

    5  Lucky to escape death at the hands of his father (5)

    6  A conman hopes his victims will be (5,2)

    7  Destroyer with a volcanic temper? (4)

    8  His only crime is to bring some cheer into the life of lonely ladies (6)

  13  Responsible for a massacre on a romantic day (2,6)

  15  2dn frequently employed here or just outside its walls (7)

  17  Bandit but not a native American (6)

  19  National Socialists of an unpleasant kind (5)

  20  An MP famously claimed the expenses of cleaning his (4)

  21  Nowadays the internet often used for this crime (5)

  22  High-flying member of 19 dn who did a lot of time in Spandau (4)