28 January 2016

Crossword by Boffles

Poets’ Corner

 

Across

    7  Although very tired, it winds somewhere safe to sea (Swinburne) (8,5)

    8  Longed to be in England in April (8)

    9  The Pobble lacked them (4)

  10  Judy O’Grady and the Colonel’s lady are sisters under this (3,4)

  12  A Cardinal wrote about the one Gerontius had (5)

  14  Hunted, it could have been a Boojum (5)

  16  Virgil’s hero (6)

  19  The Blessed Damozel had ones which were deeper than the depth of waters stilled at even (4)

  20  Balmy sleep is tired nature’s (8)

  22  Beginning of an autumnal poem (6,2,5)

 

Down

    1  It’s not nonsense that he also painted (4)

    2  Chaste ones for cold nymphs (6)

    3  Wordsworth had to  do this to the banks of the Wye in order to write about the vicinity of Tintern Abbey (7)

    4  Mrs Worthington was advised against putting her daughter on it (5)

    5  Love grows this with treason according to Swinburne (6)

    6  Major figure in the Iliad whose wife’s face launched a thousand ships (8)

  11  There is a hive for it on the Isle of Innisfree (5,3)

  13  What they do (7)

  15  Wilde character was unable to when faced with temptation (6)

  17  Nature of some Catullus poems (6)

  18  None available although there was water everywhere (5)

  21  Some have meat but cannot (3)