3 November 2016
Crossword by Boffles
Plain Vanilla 14
Across
1 Calais home of Tarzan? (3,6)
6 Flood lifeboat (3)
8 Feeling brought on by boring tasks or circumstances, not necessarily French (5)
9 Revolutionary followers of a Chairman’s teachings (7)
10 ‘ Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania’ is one of his lines (6)
12 Device enabling computers to connect and transfer data incorporating style (5)
13 Social media message embracing son superlatively and excessively quaint (6)
14 ‘There is no ……… against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings:’ Shirley (6)
17 Person the subject of intense media interest but not necessarily of any great merit (5)
19 Modern term for old discrimination (6)
21 Pub adds a letter and moves to Greece (7)
22 He sought the Golden Fleece (5)
23 Daring special forces (3)
24 ‘God’s own county’ according to its inhabitants (9)
1 Calais home of Tarzan? (3,6)
6 Flood lifeboat (3)
8 Feeling brought on by boring tasks or circumstances, not necessarily French (5)
9 Revolutionary followers of a Chairman’s teachings (7)
10 ‘ Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania’ is one of his lines (6)
12 Device enabling computers to connect and transfer data incorporating style (5)
13 Social media message embracing son superlatively and excessively quaint (6)
14 ‘There is no ……… against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings:’ Shirley (6)
17 Person the subject of intense media interest but not necessarily of any great merit (5)
19 Modern term for old discrimination (6)
21 Pub adds a letter and moves to Greece (7)
22 He sought the Golden Fleece (5)
23 Daring special forces (3)
24 ‘God’s own county’ according to its inhabitants (9)
Down
1 Lacked by the Pobble (4)
2 Confer a peerage (7)
3 Short-term higher education? (3)
4 Bridge or poker, for example, within home attracts boyish girl (6)
5 This business is not conducted in a 16dn (1-8)
6 Wretched Syrian family (5)
7 Asian beauty spot and flash point (7)
11 Can be made into a fool or blown at one (9)
13 Roman historian understood by you and me (7)
15 Watering hole favoured by the Gallagher brothers (5)
16 Tehran has a grand and politically active such market (6)
18 John Aubrey’s were brief (5)
20 First word of bedtime stories (4)
22 Gravy law? (3)
1 Lacked by the Pobble (4)
2 Confer a peerage (7)
3 Short-term higher education? (3)
4 Bridge or poker, for example, within home attracts boyish girl (6)
5 This business is not conducted in a 16dn (1-8)
6 Wretched Syrian family (5)
7 Asian beauty spot and flash point (7)
11 Can be made into a fool or blown at one (9)
13 Roman historian understood by you and me (7)
15 Watering hole favoured by the Gallagher brothers (5)
16 Tehran has a grand and politically active such market (6)
18 John Aubrey’s were brief (5)
20 First word of bedtime stories (4)
22 Gravy law? (3)
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