9 June 2016

Crossword by Boffles

Europe (forgetting the EU)

Across

    6  Michelangelo spent a lot of time on its ceiling (7,6)

    8  Football club (English) and Venetian dockyard (8)

    9  Wine, popular in summer, that can be made by skin contact (4)

  10  Sicilian cake or, in 16dn, an ice cream (7)

  12  Troops took taxis to fight on this river (5)

  13  What they do to tomatoes, peppers and vine leaves in Mediterranean countries (5)

  15  Where to find the Alhambra and the Alcazar (2,5)

  19  Short name for Roman York or, with a small change, a Spanish river (4)

  20  He spent time on Elba but came from another island (8)

  22  Some are in paradise when they walk down this  French avenue (6,7)

 

Down

    1  Christian fashionista (4)

    2  Where Elgin picked up some marbles (6)

    3  Velazquez painted such a princess in Las Meninas (7)

    4  Beethoven composed one for oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns (5)

    5  Baltic capital founded by the Swedes (8)

    7  Italian town which possibly gave its name to a sea and definitely does with a nervous twitch (5)

  11  Hitler’s highway (8)

  14  Roman predecessor of the Common Market (5)

  16  Beautiful but sleazy city beside a beautiful bay (6)

  17  Kielbasa and builders often are (6)

  18  Used to flavour ouzo and sambuca and other drinks (5)

  21  Smelly river between Germany and Poland? (4)