23 February 2017

Crossword by Boffles

Islands – Not Necessarily in the Sun

Across

    1  Homeland of some notorious US families (6)

    4  French Alcatraz (6)

    9  Shares a Caribbean one with another country (5)

  10  Polynesian archipelago (5)

  11  Close enough to France for German occupation (8)

  13  Capital of an archipelago in the Atlantic 18dn (6)

  14  Romantic and Arthurian (6)

  17  Prospero practised as this while marooned on one (8)

  19  Has many beaches and tourists but not actually one

  21  Virgin tax haven (7)

  22  Noble sounding footwear for large Japanese one (6)

  23  Craggy one in the Firth of Clyde (5)

 

Down

    1  Last resting place of a son of 11dn (2,6)

    2  Mode of transport between Greek ones (7)

    3  Garland presented in Hawaii and Polynsesia (3)

    5  Borders Manhattan (4,5)

    6  Short form tax haven in the British Isles (3)

    7  Scottish one with its own sheep (4)

    8  In the Bristol Channel  – discovered by the French on Monday? (5)

  11  Capital of a coarse French one (7)

  12  Plus a male for the Raj’s equivalent of 4ac (7)

  15  They are surrounded by atolls (7)

  16  Add fraud to this Greek one for building material (5)

  18  The Pacific one contains thousands (5)

  20  Bird loses head for very short Irish one (4)