16 March 2017

Crossword by Boffles

Spring

Across

    1  Its are on winter’s traces (Swinburne) (6)

    5  ‘Rough winds do shake the darling ….. of May’  Shakespeare (4)

    9  ‘Four …….. on a pond, a grass-bank beyond, A blue sky of ‘  Allingham (5)

  10  African migrant (7)

  11  Dangerous relationship that can occur when a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love? (7)

  12  Artist’s equipment presumably used by Botticelli and Boucher when they painted it (5)

  13  ‘A maid whom there were none to praise and very few to love’  dwelt beside this river’s. Wordsworth (4)

  15  Place to see cherry 21ac in Japan (5)

  19  Latin I love includes cockney hat for what an Italian man want to be (5)

  21  ‘…….. by …………’ it begins (Swinburne) (7)

  22  They bloom in it (Gilbert) (7)

  23  Stravinsky composed a ballet about its (4)

  25  Pasta primavera ingredient (4)

  26  ‘Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along the ……..’ Housman (5)

 

Down

    2  It is when the chaffinch sings on the ………… 26ac (Browning) (7)

    3  Scene of avian activity (5)

    4  What farmers will be doing without a needle (6)

    5  They will be out with their binos looking at 9 and 10ac (7)

    6  A good time to visit the Yorkshire ones (5)

    7  It is often the subject of a rural one (5)

    8  What 10ac does while sitting on a 26ac (5)

  14  Never yet negligently fashioned flowers of April  (Watson) (7)

  16  Sweet lovers love it and may engage in this (7)

  17  Wordsworth saw a host of them in short (5)

  18  Gardeners will their new plants but not for sleep (5)

  20  Animal which was stirred by it to befriend a rat (1,4)

  21  It should provide opportunities to do this in the sun (4)

  24  For men may come and men may …, But I …. on for ever’  Tennyson (2)