03 March 2016

Crossword by Boffles

Plain Vanilla 4

Across

    1  Corbyn is impaled on its prongs (7)

    5  Iraqi city with graduates and an academician (5)

    8  ……., Martin and John (7)

    9  His expedition came second (5)

  10  Sailors need to check them – they wait for no man (5)

  11  Transport for all (7)

  12  Europeans good for breakfast (6)

  14  Female warrior flower (6)

  17  African hero (7)

  19  The Chairman often will at the end of a meeting (3,2)

  22  Comes before ‘gone’ in the sale room (5)

  23  They help people to know who you are (2,5)

  24  We must cut down on it! (5)

  25  Gallant knight (7)

 

Down

    1  ‘Cheers’ is a common one (5)

    2  How a deficit is shown (2,3)

    3  Leading Graeco- Roman city in Asia Minor with its own Diana (7)

    4  Girl who prefers trousers to dresses (6)

    5  Millions used to roam the plains (5)

    6  Common term for the entertainment industry (4,3)

    7  Makes other things beside bread (7)

  12  What you claim in court (7)

  13  Chinese city sacked by the Japanese (7)

  15  ‘Cats’ for example (7)

  16  What Mary Berry and Co get up to (6)

  18  Not just responsible for pomp and circumstance (5)

  20  There was a long one in China (5)

  21  Henry VIII did for Holbein (5)