7 December 2017
Crossword by Boffles
Plain Vanilla 27
Across
1 ‘then ye contented your souls with the flannelled fools at the wicket and the muddied …… at the goals’ Kipling (4)
3 North Korea’s make Trump jumpy (8)
9 Get ready to handle stolen goods in France? (2,5)
10 Mother of pearl found in a northern plot of land (5)
11 Essential for getting ashore under 1dn (7,5)
13 They are going to take our jobs! (6)
15 Nerd and his clothing (6)
17 Can be a hard fight to bring them to justice (3,9)
20 ‘ …. …, so fresh the days that are no more’ Tennyson (2,3)
21 Pithy refusal to act (2,3,2)
22 White tie and tails are not this kind of wear (8)
23 What this is (4)
Down
1 Feudal superior’s plan for invading Normandy (8)
2 Criminal boss has a cigarette at home (5)
4 Historic Big Freeze (3,3)
5 Science fiction location of the Summer of Love? (3,9)
6 A match for the Devil? (7)
7 Canal that led to the end of Eden (4)
8 Commemorates when the guns fell silent (9,3)
12 Required for downhill or slalom (3,5)
14 Golf club but clearly not an iron (7)
16 Where Harry Lime lurked in the shadows (6)
18 Indefinite article and no points declare void (5)
19 Man or Purbeck, for example (4)
