12 October 2017
Crossword by Boffles
Plain Vanilla 25
Across
1 Branch of the law for the protection of luvvies? (6)
4 ‘Nature ……… a vacuum’ Aristotle (6)
9 Signs of learning (1-6)
10 ‘I was elsewhere’ defence (5)
11 What the ambitious want to do in life (3,2)
12 Favourite fruit of millennials, we understand (7)
13 Blackboard or, so we hear, classroom assistant (8,3)
18 Thermonuclear weapon (1-4)
20 They have the edge over Marquesses (5)
22 Rest adds fifty for artist’s equipment (5)
23 Pop stars’ entourage, not necessarily tattooed (7)
24 Explanatory stories? Exactly right (4,2)
25 Guide loses the North East for Roman orator (6)
Down
1 Funereal address can lack energy (6)
2 Rented property is if still on the market (5)
3 Massive hit movie (7)
5 Thuggish cheer heard at the opera? (5)
6 Artistic paperwork (7)
7 Third cherry stone after tinker (6)
8 Famous film about stellar nativity (1,4,2,4)
14 City connected to Diana and Paul (7)
15 Dictator found hiding in a culvert (7)
16 Old Nick finds work for these hands (4)
17 Oxford boat taking on everybody in the Middle East (4)
19 Lecherous looks (5)
21 Kind of crime that is sharply up? (5)
