19 May 2016

Crossword by Boffles

Plain Vanilla 8

Across

    1  Used to order drinks secretly? (7)

    5  Best known is JS but do not forget CPE or WF (4)

    8  Remuneration for not working? (6,3)

    9  Roman sun and Mexican beer (3)

  10  Classical poet with a couple of big hits to his name (5)

  12  Low-lying salt lake famous for scrolls (4,3)

  13  Champions against all odds (9,4)

  15  Nazi secret police (7)

  16  Breads eaten in Asian countries and your local Indian (5)

  18  Spanish bravo (3)

  19  Graduate with quartz compound forms a large church (8)

  20  Often linked with building (4)

  21  Underwear worn by X-Men? (1-6)

 

Down

    1  Early Dutch painter of fantastic and macabre scenes (5)

    2  GI speak for leave (3)

    3  Where Charles II sought shelter after the battle of Worcester (3,4)

    4  Kind of force Britain sent to France during WW1 and WW2 (13)

    6  Drastic measure for dealing with enemies put together by two fools and a people (13)

    7  Candidate backed by Bill but not Bernie (7)

  11  More useful on the sea than the bed (9)

  13  Varus lost three in Germany which greatly distressed Augustus (7)

  14  If a tenant includes one, he can live on the income from property and securities (7)

  17  Impossible to predict black ones (5)