9 February 2017

Crossword by Boffles

Plain Vanilla 17

Across

    1  Lawyer speak (8)

    5  Israeli city surely covers more than one (4)

    9  One arm of our defence (5,3,5)

  10  A people crushed  by Spanish toughs (4)

  11  Alas, not often united (7)

  13  Overnight flight and its result (3-3)

  15  Leaving your car is a piece of cake without gravity (6)

  18  Neckwear adds game for Venetian artist (7)

  20  Barmy if you are a cricket fan, Red if you are Russian (4)

  23  System for winning friends and influencing people but not limited to aged males (3,3,7)

  24  Fear of African American music? (4)

  25  Nobel’s blasting powder (8)

 

Down

    1  Title for Jim and Adonis and Byron (4)

    2  ‘Pretty, witty’ Nell (5)

    3  Soporific song (7)

    4  Winter sport (6)

    6  Tree useful for bottle stopping (4,3)

    7  Late service – not a flat tune (8)

    8  Computer generated image of a wanted person (1-3)

  12  Opposite of left on?  No – your car after a bad accident (5-3)

  14  City on the Elbe famous for porcelain (7)

  16  Where 9ac aspires to go per ardua (2,5)

  17  Mutinous ship sought by a hunter? (6)

  19  Short term university (4)

  21  Antipodean people (5)

  22  Where the bonnie boat was headed for over the sea (4)