29 June 2017

Crossword by Boffles

China

Across

    1  Smoky tea (7)

    4  Chinese Cricket Board?  No – construction bank (3)

    6  Confrontation square (9)

    9  Artistic medium (3)

  10  Tunic-suited chairman with some unpleasant habits (3)

  11  Add a ruler to this granny for city sacked by the Japanese (3)

  12  Prohibited area home to 8dn and other rulers (9,4)

  14  Cathay was such a name for it (3)

  16  Splendid ones from the Peak in Hong Kong (5)

  18  Office for the ordinary? No – its version of Boris bikes (3)

  19  Coin we have adopted? (4)

  20  …..En-lai, a colleague of 10ac (4)

  22  Amy takes nothing in for 14ac name of a port (4)

  23  Major river where, incidentally, an RN ship was trapped (7)

 

Down

    1  Culturally symbolic flower (5)

    2  Its Red Army (3)

    3  Province with its own tea and cuisine (5)

    4  In the Cultural Revolution you could be required to do this to yourself (9)

    5  Vegetable for your stir fry (3,4)

    7  A turn at its game? (1,2)

    8  Leading family of potters? (4,7)

  10  Early visitor (5,4)

  12  14ac name of island still claimed , although independent (7)

  13  Its is part of 2dn (4)

  15  Food linked with 14ac Beijing (4)

  17  Soy or sweet and sour, for example (5)

  21  Usually straw and conical (3)