17 December 2015

Crossword by Boffles

Plain Vanilla 3 

 

Across

    1  Famous author is just an empty embrace (4)

    3  Musical occupation of the young (8)

    9  Repeat this vegetable (some say fruit) for background noise (7)

  10  It might not help your love life if you win at these (5)

  11  Should be able to do a pirouette or a jete (6,6)

  13  Hallelujah or dawn perhaps (6)

  15  What you hope to do on holiday (6)

  17  He is licensed to gas people (12)

  20  NZ Polynesian (5)

  21  A matador? No – he wieded a brush, not a sword (2,5)

  22  Feverish search for a precious metal (4,4)

  23  The sort of practical advice waiters look for (4)

 

Down

    1  Tough defender, we hear, but actually for the reader (8)

    2  Thin stuff but Oliver still wanted more (5)

    4  A particular appetite of men and women (6)

    5  Key part of the great British breakfast (5,3,4)

    6  Middle East national (7)

    7  What a wildcatter wants his well to do (4)

    8  Posh expanse of water? (4,8)

  12  Bibliophiles like first ones (8)

  14  Footballer’s nightmare (3,4)

  16  Marathon winner (6)

  18  Rebellious British tribe (5)

  19  Complacent with a small face (4)