26 October 2017
Crossword by Boffles
Bird Talk
Across
1 Lower your head (4)
3 Game bird is a rustic with a bit of heat inside (8)
9 Winners used to drive 3ac and other game (7)
10 The past catches up when the chickens come home to it (5)
11 Slippery kind of grass fed on by geese (3)
12 Occasionally seen on the golf course (5)
14 Rough cry of the 22dn family (6)
16 They all make them although some are rudimentary (5)
18 Party deer for some unfortunately no longer with us (6)
20 Rice wine adds right in short for a falcon (5)
23 La dinde fait un bon …….. (5)
24 Both 1ac and 1dn are (7)
25 Pleasant singers (8)
26 Bald 12ac is its emblem (3)
Down
1 Little grebe that is always young? (8)
2 Lifting equipment (5)
4 What a swan does when angry (6)
5 Rocky location often used for 16ac (1,4)
6 Black and white waders with an upturned beak (7)
7 Great or blue perhaps or vulgarism for chest area (4)
8 The wizard one (6)
13 Alleged to bury its head in the sand (7)
15 Swan with a bad cough? (7)
17 Home of 3ac and Mandarin 1ac (4)
19 River adds fifty for a thrush (5)
20 Aggressive one sounds like a kitchen utensil (4)
21 Can be flown to test reactions (5)
22 Gloat or boast (4)
