6 April 2017

Crossword by Boffles

Plain Vanilla 19

Across

    1  Multilingual stone (7)

    5  Blunt weapons even when smart (5)

    8  Victor of Blenheim and ancestor of a famous PM (4,9)

    9  End of arm loses end for Chinese dynasty (3)

  10  Bennet who had to cope with pride and prejudice (9)

  12  Chat show fodder (6)

  13  Office dogsbody gets a life and takes up a game (6)

  15  Do you need a poker face to play them? (4,5)

  16  ‘Do you remember an …., Miranda?’  Belloc (3)

  18  1,001 of them (7,6)

  20  The Hell Fire Club was full of garden tools? (5)

  21  Had to be stopped when a big story broke late (7)

 

Down

    1  Part British Indian ruler? (5)

    2  Jewish lifeboat and basis of an A-list film (10,3)

    3  Aussie lunch box (6-3)

    4  Dog-like Egyptian god of the afterlife (6)

    5  Auntie and British institution (3)

    6  Are they operated by Virgin Atlantic Airways? (6,7)

    7  ‘That knuckle-end of England – that land of Calvin, oat-cakes and ……..’ Revd Sydney Smith (7)

  11  Is the existence of a poodle that bad? (1,4,4)

  12  Seat needed for person with joint responsibility for company meeting? (2-5)

  14  Cry of a disappointed female? No- just a sign or portent (4)

  17  Turned up by people at things they consider beneath them (5)

  19  US tax gatherers (3)