11 January 2018
Crossword by Boffles
Plain Vanilla 28
Across
1 Old style drunk (7)
4 Tribe incorporating South Africa in a French month (5)
7 Textile designer who doubled up as a car manufacturer? (7,6)
9 Whisky from a vintage port? (3)
10 If Trump is, he will share something with Hillary’s husband (9)
13 For some wrestling a total nothing (4)
14 Republican German city (6)
16 Tricky situation being between the monster opposite and this (9)
17 Clock sound and nervous twitch (3)
19 Split personality (6,3,4)
22 Oscar Wilde is famous for being so (5)
23 Heavenly Lassie? (3,4)
Down
1 You escape the real world in an ivory one (5)
2 Conditions that favour vendors (7,6)
3 Presumably in the PM’s kitchen cabinet (6,3)
4 Had a wife who was a member of a gang (3)
5 Grain sounds like a dental problem (7)
6 Kind of trading that is frowned upon (7)
8 Sulk when the end falls off scooter (4)
11 Helps a criminal (5)
12 Disease particularly feared by the talkative? (7)
15 Proves who you are (2,4)
17 Romantic meeting in Endeavour Street? (5)
18 ‘And even the ranks of Tuscany could scarce forbear to …….. ‘ Macaulay (5)
20 Poem from and by Macaulay (3)
21 People were encouraged to for victory in WWII (3)
