23 June 2016

Crossword by Boffles

In the City

Across

    1  Financially optimistic (7)

    5  Needed to change one currency into another (1,4)

    8  There are a number – metal for example (9)

    9  Coarse financial statistic of great interest to 13ac (3)

  10  Ex-governor of 13ac (4)

  12  Is it seriously full of over-fed pets? (3,4)

  13  The key institution (4,2,7)

  15  Not over the Rhine but how, in short,  you want your conversation to be when you pass on inside information (3)

  17  Not descriptive of the looks given when a pretty girl crosses the trading floor but what you need to be when considering financial products (5)

  19  A fund traded on an 8ac (3)

  20  One way to conclude a deal (9)

  22  The shares remaining after most have been sold – not to be confused with the last bit of a pencil (4)

  23  Important date for companies but not necessarily 31 December (4-3)

 

Down

    1  Did George Soros and Co really try to do this to 13ac? (5)

    2  Short form financial missive used in international trade, also with nothing left out (3)

    3  Tax-efficient savings products (4)

    4  Computers rather than radio waves used for this type of trading (4,9)

    5  This kind of management is big business (5)

    6  Bankers’ earnings do a lot of people (9)

    7  The LIBOR scandal has recently been (7)

  11  Such organisations are thin on the ground (3-6)

  13  Common job description (6)

  14  Gold- edged securities (5)

  16  Where tired and emotional City workers have to go (5)

  18  The return given up by shares (5)

  21  Surely City workers do not have to go to this St Mary to get the chop? (3)