1 December 2016

Crossword by Boffles

Plain Vanilla 15

Across

    1  Sir’s card game or London district (13)

    8  Can find it difficult to get into heaven (4,3)

    9  Cupid shoots the common version (5)

  10  They seldom make passes at bespectacled young females according to one authority (3)

  11  Troubled Mexican resort where Elvis had fun (8)

  13  Famous for champagne and a jackdaw (6)

  14  Spanish one came to grief (6)

  17  Recently departed follower of 1dn unmourned in Florida (6)

  19  He was told about British Gas shares in a classic campaign (3)

  21  Not the current capital of Japan but can be with a little re-arrangement (5)

  22  Realm of Mad King Ludwig (7)

  24  Hockney certainly made one with this pool painting (1,6,6)

 

Down

    1  Influential German thinker who wrote about class struggle (4,4)

    2  Surely its smell does not enrage Catholics? (7)

    3  Evil smelling low murmur? (3)

    4  Adventurous sailor from Baghdad (6)

    5  Chinese activists to some extent inspired by 1dn (3,6)

    6  Architectural order (5)

    7  Laid-back midshipman (4)

  11  First man on the moon (9)

  12  Payment method available even if the currency is soft (4,4)

  15  Al leaves a large country for a smaller one (7)

  16  A Lancaster or Halifax perhaps (6)

  18  Sauce breath-taking with fish (5)

  20  Seabird sounds as if it is in the kitchen (4)

  23  Bigwig (3)