6 July 2017

Crossword by Boffles

Plain Vanilla 22

Across

    1  Nerd associated with policy (4)

    3  ‘The sedge is …….from the lake, And no birds sing.’   Keats (7)

    9  They stand tall all the way from Canada to New Mexico (7)

  10  Weapon requiring a shoulder (5)

  11  Used to infiltrate Troy (1,6,5)

  13  Such knights were not straying but adventure-seekers (6)

  15  Likely to attract a knight 13ac if in distress (6)

  17  Human identifier (12)

  20  Life can be as tough in this jungle as in a tropical one (5)

  21  Artist who had a blue period (7)

  22  Colditz and Stalag Luft III (3,5)

  23  Paper only suitable for wiping your bottom hard? (4)

 

Down

    1  Can be played by anyone, not only soldiers (3,5)

    2  Not a computer chip but an edible one (5)

    4  The answer is mad (6)

    5  Contains plenty of troubled people (4,2,6)

    6  A horse does when it does not take the jump (7)

    7  Concealed to-do list (6,6)

    8  ‘Ill …. by moonlight, proud Titania’  Shakespeare (3)

  12  What rockets do (5,3)

  14  According to Judy Garland, blue birds fly over it (7)

  16  Produce ready to pick?  Happen (4,2)

  18  Nice homely surroundings for the sick? (3)

  19  What people do to their partner when love dies (4)