8 September 2016

Crossword by Boffles

Plain Vanilla 12

Across

    1  Beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite (6)

    4  Charles 1 was one and James 1 another (6)

    9  Such tribes have mobile homes (7)

  10  Have a fit of this when you lose the end of the card game? (5)

  11  Got the Ancient Mariner going (1,4)

  12  Problem-free or zero perspiration (2,5)

  13  Birthplace of 6dn (11)

  18  Whiter and short period of time for Sicilian city (7)

  20  What Germany did in breach of the Versailles 7dn (2-3)

  22  Where to pop to when you run out of gin (5)

  23  Boisterous and boozy young female (7)

  24  Those peddled by old wives can be ignored (5)

  25  Egyptian equivalent of Pluto (6)

 

Down

    1  Yearly publication grown in the garden? (6)

    2  Someone with this has drive but no, repeat no, speed (5)

    3  Do you want this type of review or a quick and dirty one (2-5)

    5  Led to Nixon’s downfall (5)

    6  Osama’s gang (2-5)

    7  Important agreement signed at Versailles but not by Louis XIV (6)

    8  Holmes would not have solved a single case without him (1,5,5)

  14  Middle Eastern street food (7)

  15  Australian trousers needed to take big steps? (7)

  16  Our Schengen one was not enough for voters (3-3)

  17  Hot BBQ essential (6)

  19  Can be fringing, barrier or atolls (5)

  21  ‘Like a dull ….. now, I have forgot my part’  Shakespeare (5)