5 November 2015

Crossword by Boffles

In the news

Across

    1  Vicious one has given Dido a headache (6)

    4  FIFA style payments (6)

    9  Troubled state presided over by a hard-boiled sweet maker (7)

  10  Too many white ones in the judiciary according to some (3)

  11  Its army is rather lacking in battle honours (4)

  12  State suffering an upsurge in knife crime (7)

  13  Bay that has said goodbye to a long-term resident (10)

  18  Usual migrant gateway to Gemany (7)

  20  Plucky islands that gave Scotland a run for its money (5)

  21  No doubt Putin has obtained one from Assad (3)

  22  Not required for the Google car (7)

  24  The inhabitants of Chelsea and Hackney are likely to be so fashionable (6)

  25  Let’s hope its aircraft do not tangle with Russian ones over Syria (4)

 

Down

    1  Feminine attractions awaiting suicide bombers in Paradise or so the story goes (6)

    2  Tuneful wife of a Presidential hopeful (5)

    3  UKIP wants to from the EU (4)

    5  Bush protege and, now, rival (5)

    6  The Chinese can now have more than one (7)

    7  Talk shop in search of a speaker (6)

    8  Its men in black ran out winners (3,7)

  14  Their lordships considered George’s tax credit proposals to be this (7)

  15  Down under and also down after last Saturday’s result (7)

  16  The police deny this is behind their stop and search policy (6)

  17  Plump MP who hounded Leon Brittan (6)

  19  Dangerous form of transport used by migrants (5)

  23  As well as uranium, we apparently need this French element for our nuclear power stations (3)