1 September 2016

Crossword by Boffles

Harvest Festival

Across

    1  Grown in gardens for a drink often drunk in gardens (4)

    3  Produces a multi-use nut (4,4)

    9  They have scythes but are not necessarily grim (7)

  10  What you need to watch out for when picking blackberries (5)

  11  What remains after 9ac have done their work or what they may do to each other (5)

  12  Use your’s to get the answer (4)

  14  Haggis accompaniment (6)

  16  Handy utensil for eating strawberrries (1,5)

  19  Many sexual assaults or wine producer? (6)

  21  Caused a lot of trouble in an early garden (5)

  24  Some say life is like one and you cry while peeling it (5)

  25  Essential for the marzipan layer (7)

  26  Famous cheese Dale (7)

  27  Star component of the growing process (3)

 

Down

    1  Meanz beanz (Fr) (8)

    2  Can be sweet even if not a flower (3)

    4  ‘The eldest  …….. winked his eye and shook his heavy head’  Lewis Carroll (6)

    5  Grain that sustains the Scots (3)

    6  Testicular pear (7)

    7  Does this herb have to be in such condition for culinary use? (4)

    8  The Englishman’s no-nonsense food (4)

  13  Fruit and veg are best when they are (2,6)

  15  Chunks of game are good for this coarse pate (7)

  17  Bees leave their hive in them when seeking a new home (6)

  18  You know where the 19ac come from if the wine is bottled here (6)

  20  Pesto maker yearns for their nuts (5)

  22  What you need to cook 1dn and 24ac (3)

  23  A hazel horse? (3)