30 March 2017

Crossword by Boffles

Great Captains

Across

    1  Self-promoting naval one? It’s fiction (10)

    8  Company and church include his for Apache leader (7)

    9  Cook was the first European to …… his feet on Australian soil (5)

  10  He was red but discovered a land of a different colour (4)

  11  Polish one who died in a plane (not helicopter) crash (8)

  13  Discoverer of mainland North America (5)

  14  Khan more of a spiritual than a military leader (3)

  16  Dashing quality possessed by, for example, Nelson and Prince Rupert (4)

  17  Confederate commander (3)

  20  …… Bakr al-Baghdadi – a highly undesirable and destructive one (3)

  21  Scholarly down-under cricketer? (7)

  23  Our very own one –  under another name (1,1,8)

 

Down

    1  Vietnamese and Argentinian revolutionaries combine in French Revolutionary general (5)

    2  Down-under cricketer prepared to comment (6,6)

    3  Odysseus devised the Trojan Horse as such to entice the Trojans (4)

    4  Gaul of superhuman strength who fought the Romans –  but perhaps more a lieutenant (6)

    5  Scott was one and Cook another (8)

    6  US one with a plan (8)

    7  Attacked both Roman Empires (6)

  12  Was a Roman soldier but now our protector (2,6)

  13  Certainly not a silly old geezer as the rhyme claims (6)

  15  Was his discovery of the Pacific reported in the Panama papers? (6)

  18  Admiral  Sir Reginald Plunkett-…..-Erle-Drax  – could he not choose between one name with north and one without? (5)

  19  Wrong right for famous victory of Muhammad (4)

  22  General commanding the Myanmar army and no Goon! (3)