22 October 2015

Crossword by Boffles

Empires and Emperors

Across

    7  Birthplace of Cyrus the Great (6)

    8  Birthplace of all Islamic ones (6)

    9  Worn by the man himself and the Praetorian Guard (4)

  10  Far Eastern one with a controversial record (8)

  11  Viceroys entered India through it (7)

  13  Some stand accused of this kind of stripping (5)

  15  Ruled by the Han and Ming dynasties among others (5)

  17  Self-proclaimed African thug (7)

  20  Their courts were full of this (8)

  21  Alexander the Great was of Hephaestion (4)

  23  Central American people conquered by the Spanish one (4)

  24  Another victim of the Spanish (4)

 

Down

    1  He fiddled at the wrong time (4)

    2  Napoleon did from Elba (6)

    3  Capital of the Abbasid one (7)

    4  One is rumoured to have behaved very badly on this island (5)

    5  Ottoman senior officials (6)

    6  Cleopatra was of the founder of the Roman one (8)

  12  This one suffered a serious setback in Sicily (8)

  14  Part of the Austro-Hungarian one (7)

  16  This one included the British Isles and Sicily (6)

  18  Crown Prince Rudolf’s caused his father a lot of grief (6)

  19  Part of the Ottoman one among others (5)

  22  Maximilian was shot but quite a number have got it in this (4)