12 November 2015

Crossword by Boffles

Thrillers of one sort and another

Across

    6  4 or IV (3,4,2,4)

    7  Role of Watson and Hastings (8)

    9  Celestial body full of them was a big success (4)

  10  Beer for Morse, vodka for Bond (7)

  12  Played by several different people on Jackson hit (5)

  14  Michael Caine in ‘Get Carter’ a fine example (4)

  16  Located in an eerie out-of- season resort (7)

  19  Rumoured to be a rich one of diamonds in King Solomon’s Mines (4)

  20  Did Holmes find 6ac to be such or a description of one of the characters? (4,4)

  22  Mediterranean bird of prey (7,6)

 

Down

    1  Add a chew for Philip Marlowe and the like (4)

    2  Shower warning (6)

    3  Gave the Baskervilles a shock (5)

    4  Frequent genre subject – see, for example, ‘ Basic Instinct’ (6)

    5  Alias Clark Kent (8)

    8  Where 3dn used to roam (4)

  11  The Corleones gambled when they moved there (3,5)

  13  Stock figure in US crime dramas (7)

  15  The Count of Monte Cristo was one (6)

  17  Name of actress who starred in ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ and ‘ The Paperboy’ (6)

  18  Good car one in ‘Bullitt’ (5)

  21  Fate of the spy who came in from the cold (4)