18 February 2016

Crossword by Boffles

A Walk in the Woods

Across

    7  They often provide this to outlaws such as 21dn (6)

    8  Official in charge of them with a different role in Texas (6)

    9  Hardwood tree useful in the garden (4)

  10  Spanish for eating, not Horse (8)

  11  Source of the magic sound of leather on willow (7)

  13  Birds do in them (5)

  15  What you add to 17ac to make it tropical (4)

  17  A large one (6)

  20  Such a one is harvested (8)

  21  The Wild one was where Badger’s was (4)

  22  Elm bark beetles do this to trees, often lethally (6)

  23  Small ones, sometimes academic in nature (6)

 

Down

    1  A thin layer of a finer one applied to a coarser one (6)

    2  Friar who lived in a 17ac (4)

    3  The Burnham one comprises these (7)

    4  A Shakespearean 17ac (5)

    5  Left when a branch falls from a tree (8)

    6  They live in those in Madagascar (6)

  12  The top branches of 17acs: often full of wild life (8)

  14  18dn measurement or rigging (7)

  16  Great oaks grow from little ones (6)

  18  Loggers’ warning shout (6)

  19  Some pine for independence (5)

  21  A robin found there (4)