Issue 142: Crossword – Troubled Times – printable

22 February 2018

Crossword by Boffles

Medium sized Boffles Sweats it Out

Troubled Times

Across
7 Lost by Mary Tudor but still gives the UK trouble (6)
8 Like the Turks, they have a Kurdish problem (6)
9 Is the day of the sex one over? (4)
10 One might feel they are running the 3dn (8)
11 What US gun laws need but are unlikely to get (6)
13 His doctor says Trump is not for office (5)
15 Too many demands on the public one (5)
16 Unfortunate state of many of Europe’s young (7)
17 Tax-exile Johnny who cannot rest in peace (8)
19 Pollution acute in Delhi and other conurbations (4)
21 Actresses are saying it too (2)
22 What Oxfam is (3)
23 Countries can struggle to ………. immigrants (6)

Down
1 Trump’s tan and, in his view, much of the news about him (4)
2 Where Virgin Trains have failed to keep on track (4,5,4)
3 What many Syrians are seeking (6)
4 Sinn Fein cannot power-share without bilingual road ones (5)
5 Serving tables and a major problem for the NHS (7,5)
6 Sinister currency or the future? (8)
12 Are student loans the best way to pay to be? (8)
14 Pursuit of jihadists (4,3)
18 Macron says the one to Europe is still open (4)
20 So greedy covers Assad or Kim Jong-un or Putin (4)

 

 

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