20 July 2017

Crossword by Boffles

Sicily

Across

1 & 12ac          Our thing (4)

    3  Fried rice balls (8)

    8  Arab influenced ingredient used in its cuisine (7)

  10  Mussolini was not one of 1 and 12ac (3)

  11  Ruled in 15dn before the Norman kings (5)

  12  See 1ac (6)

  14  Its king was often king of this as well (6)

  16  Is there such a wine? That’s nuts (6)

  18  They drove 5dn out (6)

  20  He wrote an opera about its Vespas?  No – Vespers (5)

  21  Star who, no doubt, visited to be alone (5)

  22  You may be fortified by this wine – it is (7)

  24  Famous novel about a prince, not a big cat (7)

  25  Oxbridge fellows involved with 1 and 12ac? (4)

 

Down

    1  Town with strong links to 1 and 12 ac (8)

    2  Amazingly, you can on 7dn (3)

    4  Garibaldi led one there (6)

    5  Invaded the island like many before them (5)

    6  What 7dn is like when active (7)

    7  It towers over Catania (4)

    9  For the Norman kings, producing legitimate …….. was crucial (5)

  13  Top sailors often in action around its coastline (8)

  15  Founded by a whiter medical officer? (7)

  17  The list of its ranges from D H Lawrence to John Julius Norwich (6)

  19  What it is in Italian (5)

  22  Its setting in short (3)

  23  A lot of it about nothing in Messina according to Shakespeare (3)