6 May 2021

Crossword by Boffles

No.278 – Boney

 

Across

    7  What you will be after too many 3dn (6)

    8  Good Scots running for cavalry flag (6)

    9  Plots to assassinate him did not go with one (4)

  10  Gold coin (8)

  11  He had one with Pauline (7)

  13  What he certainly gave the European stew (1,4)

  15  What he finally said to 12dn (5)

  17  Biscuit dynasty that followed (7)

  20  Favourite was Chambertin (8)

  21  Alexander I was the the one who had to face him (4)

  23  Retreat from Moscow was terrible one for his men (6)

  24  His was the First French one (6)

 

Down

    1  He was able to escape from it (4)

    2  His was that he was Corsican (6)

    3  10ac’s sort of spirits (7)

    4  Mistress he acquired there was known as ‘Cleopatra’ (5)

    5  Waterloo regiment and their weapons (6)

    6  Middlesbrough side recruit Italian man for indecisive victory (8)

  12  Reactionary troops? (3,5)

  14  Religious view he often opposed (4,3)

  16  His army’s standards (6)

  18  Did he come up with the one for Chicken Marengo? (6)

  19  He had one called Joe! (5)

  22  Area of land he failed to take (4)