14 January 2016

Crossword by Boffles

A Little Learning

Across

    7  Arithmetic that does not involve paper or a calculator (6)

    8  ….. …….. parentis. How schools like to see themselves (2,4)

    9  Town opposition (4)

  10  Oxford college (and a Cambridge one with extra English) (8)

  11  Scholar who runs EU educational programme (7)

  13  Somebody not, alas, academically gifted (5)

  15  Unwritten exams (5)

  16  Innate but improved by education (7)

  19  Student getting close to degree day (8)

  21  Haunt of bar students (4)

  22  Not a good idea to cut a furrow in your exams (6)

  23  Handed out on speech day but not always glittering (6)

 

Down

    1  Old style duty to do French homework? Only if plural (6)

    2  Produces polished PMs near Slough (4)

    3  Old boy (7)

    4  Choral college (5)

    5  Many students torn between seeking this and their studies (8)

    6  Graded exam (4)

  12  Course content (8)

  14  Essential student equipment (6)

  17  Part of present or future grammar lesson (6)

  18  Boat Race requirement (5)

  20  They assail the scholar’s life according to Dr Johnson (4)

  21  Dark blue river (4)