11 February 2016

Crossword by Boffles

War and Peace

 

Across

    6  Central character with a heart of stone? (6)

    7  Balkan one led to a World one (6)

    8  It was recently on TV (4)

    9  16ac’s was Rostova (4,4)

  10  Napoleon for 2dn and Alexander I for Russia (7)

  12  Fate of many characters – for example, 17dn and his wife (5)

  14  What 23ac did around (5)

  16  A central character (7)

  19  Nikolai Rostov’s was the Pavlograd Hussars (8)

  20  6ac wounded Dolokhov in one (4)

  22  Temporary peace (5)

  23  Wife of 6ac (6)

 

Down

    1  17dn declined to be Kutuzov’s (4)

    2  The defeated country (6)

    3  16ac …… ….the caddish Anatole Kuragin (4,3)

    4  17dn was 16ac’s (6)

    5  Descriptive of the marriage beween 6ac and 23ac (8)

    7  It included Jim Broadbent and Greta Scacchi (4)

  11  Harbours useful after D Day (8)

  13  Borodino and Austerlitz (7)

  15  17dn’s title (6)

  17  Another central character (6)

  18  The Russian Army was by Kutuzov (3)

  21  6ac used a pistol, not this sword, in his 20ac (4)