1 March 2018
Crossword by Boffles
The Written Word
Across
1 Penned ‘ The way was long, the wind was cold, the Minstrel was infirm and old;’ (5)
4 Wrote about a Winnie but not the wartime PM (1,1,5)
8 Naval officer whose subjects included forest children and a midshipman (7)
9 Ardent Montague (5)
10 Howard’s conclusion (3)
12 Had an adventurous time after the Trojan War before inspiring a novel (7)
13 Tale of derring-do in a colourful cloak (11)
18 Wilde husband but alas he was not (5)
20 His hero went around in eighty days (5)
22 Kind of sleep enjoyed by Raymond Chandler? (3)
23 Endless young animal for what Hannay has to go on in The Thirty-Nine Steps (3)
24 Nonsensical Lear, not the king (6)
25 Fifty donkeys dearly loved by Burns? (6)
Down
1 Greengage or suddenly last? (6)
2 Descriptive of the ships of 12ac and 17dn (5)
3 Pooh or Eeyore, for example (3)
4 Famous for demise of a rep and his wife (6,6)
5 Like wives in Windsor (5)
6 Fruit belonging to a Third Man character? (5)
7 Self-centred character of Meredith (6)
11 Italian river and end of Europe for American mystery writer (3)
14 Colourful phenomenon of D H Lawrence (7)
15 A shorter, but not short, story (7)
16 Sounds like the ship’s complement thus wrecked on a tropical island (6)
17 Had an adventurous time after the Trojan War ending up in Italy (6)
19 Mystery writing award named after 11dn (5)
21 Story-telling uncle (5)
