11 May 2017

Crossword by Boffles

Plain Vanilla 20

Across

    1  Pensioners are protected by a triple one or are they? (4)

    3  Monstrous expanse of water? (4,4)

    7  George Eliot or Boffles, for example (3,4)

  10  Inventor who made a big bang (5)

  11  Colourful flower (6,5)

  13  Can be a problem if there are not enough Native Americans to follow them (6)

  15  Hamlet was concerned ‘Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and …… of outrageous fortune’ (6)

  17  How to cover up one side’s lack of points? (9)

  20  Period of peace and happiness (5)

  21  Where you wait for ages for one and then three come along together (3,4)

  22  Rodent prone to hiding valuables? (8)

  23  Burden is on us (4)

 

Down

    1  Mime to music (3-5)

    2  Kiel or White Sea, perhaps (5)

    4  Germans we took in on the death of Queen Anne (11)

    5  Ban imposed on countries such as North Korea and Zimbabwe (7)

    6  Its performer is unaccompanied (4)

    8  Did a spell of house painting before moving into politics (5,6)

    9  Someone keen to hear is all ……. (4)

  12  Uranium has a number of them such as 238 & 235 (8)

  14  Acknowledgement of indebtedness (1,3,3)

  16  You are getting big-headed if you think you are the only one on the beach (6)

  18  Discover how to make direct advances to the opposite sex? (3,2)

  19  ‘Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my …..remember’d’  Shakespeare (4)