12 May 2016

Crossword by Boffles

Women’s Week

Across

    7  Nurse shot for treason (6)

    8  Bertie Wooster’s good and deserving aunt but no shrinking violet (6)

    9  This Dame is certainly not average (4)

  10  Code which prohibited them from inheriting property (5,3)

  11  1dn was one to begin with (7)

  13  Stony female name (5)

  15  Girls do not have to be born in a particular month to be given this name (5)

  17  Figure-shaping undergarments not so common these days (7)

  20  They often get like this over a 21dn (4-4)

  21  Inflamed feminists in the 60s and 70s (4)

  22  Whisky island loses end for girl’s name (4)

  23  The rape of these ones the subject of paintings by Rubens and Poussin among others (6)

 

Down

    1  Star of ‘ And God created Woman’ (6)

    2  Their Olympian 14dn (4)

    3  Maidenly …….. can be very becoming (7)

    4  Her albums include 19, 21 and 25 (5)

    5  What dressy ones hope to achieve (8)

    6  How to address a noble one (6)

  12  Bob Dylan sang about these ones, possibly when stoned (5,3)

  14  1dn was a screen one, 2dn the real thing (7)

  16  According to Sir Walter Scott, they are ‘ in our hours of ease, uncertain, coy and hard to ……….’ (6)

  18  Mark my words, Shania’s album ‘The Woman in Me’ sold 20 million copies (5)

  19  ‘…….., in thy orisons be all my sins remember’d’  Hamlet (5)

  21  Guys often call their gals this when they are not quite that young (4)