16 June 2016

Crossword by Boffles

Plain Vanilla 9

Across

    7  Nureyev and Fonteyn were great exponents (6)

    8  Fathered a Canadian province? (6)

    9  A badass emperor (4)

  10  End of the line for Napoleon (8)

  11  Strictly speaking, William the Conqueror was and Fidel Castro is one (7)

  13  Can be bad form to show this joint (5)

  15  Posh vessel? Nein (1-4)

  17  Group of adolescent males appealing to adolescent girls (3,4)

  20  River that created the Grand Canyon (8)

  21  What you do to your sails to avoid it? (4)

  23  Zodiac sign embraces a to produce a dragon (6)

  24  ‘The isle is full of ……, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not’  The Tempest (6)

 

Down

    1  Latin sea horse (4)

    2  Enjoyed great success with a book about small females (6)

    3  You wear it well, Sir Roderick (7)

    4  Infernal author (5)

    5  King of the fairies (6)

    6  Linked by a bridge to Manhattan (8)

  12  Heavenly food (8)

  14  Source of an Italian sausage (7)

  16  Waterproof jacket worn by nerds (6)

  18  Site of a divisive wall (6)

  19  Made his fortune out East and then used it to buy a parliamentary seat (5)

  22  John Steinbeck and James Dean were concerned with somewhere to the east of it (4)