November 2007

1-across – Book by Thomas Keneally : SCHINDLERSARK

8-across – Herb : PARSLEY

9-across – Haughty : PROUD

10-across – Section of orchestra : WOOD

11-across – Australian city : CANBERRA

13-across – Agreement : TREATY

14-across – Church dignitary : BISHOP

17-across – Interpreter – performer : EXPONENT

19-across – See 10 : WIND

21-across – Snow house : IGLOO

22-across – Small axe : HATCHET

24-across – Arranged tongs : GREATGRANDSON

1-down – Juice from tree : SAP

2-down – Secretion transported in the blood : HORMONE

3-down – Invalid : NULL

4-down – Amateur : LAYMAN

5-down – State without monarch : REPUBLIC

6-down – Love affair : AMOUR

7-down – Book by Stevenson : KIDNAPPED

10-down – Book by Emily Brontë : WUTHERING

12-down – Be prominent : STANDOUT

15-down – See 10 : HEIGHTS

16-down – Mooring device : ANCHOR

18-down – Beat – beans etc : PULSE

20-down – Machine gun : STEN

23-down – Metal : TIN

5-across – Book by Monica Ali : BRICKLANE

8-across – Pal : CHUM

9-across – Face etc that can be easily read : OPENBOOK

10-across – Rough and cruel : BRUTAL

11-across – Book by George du Maurier – hat : TRILBY

13-across – Sung by group of singers : CHORAL

15-across – Non-stick coating – evading blame : TEFLON

16-across – Opiate popular in Victorian times : LAUDANUM

18-across – Short time for a wonder : NINE

19-across – Insincere person : HYPOCRITE

1-down – One who stages boxing matches etc : PROMOTER

2-down – See 7 : SCHOOL

3-down – Customer : CLIENT

4-down – Rebuff : SNUB

6-down – Small margin of win : SHORTHEAD

7-down – Book by Thomas Hughes : TOMBROWNS

12-down – Endless : INFINITE

14-down – Capital city : LONDON

15-down – Quality of sound : TIMBRE

17-down – See 7 and 18 : DAYS

5-across – Book by George Eliot : MIDDLEMARCH

7-across – Book by Tolstoy : ANNA

8-across – See 7 : KARENINA

9-across – Make believe : PRETEND

11-across – Saying : ADAGE

13-across – Book by Dickens : BLEAK

14-across – Battle, disaster for Scotland : FLODDEN

16-across – Stun – defeat – destroy : KNOCKOUT

17-across – See 2 : ROAD

18-across – Disloyal to one’s country : TREASONABLE

1-down – Notion : IDEA

2-down – Cheapest Monopoly property : OLDKENT

3-down – Self-satisfied grin : SMIRK

4-down – West Indian island : TRINIDAD

5-down – Old name for asteroid – Pluto? : MINORPLANET

6-down – Explosive device that is thrown : HANDGRENADE

10-down – Traditional roof maker : THATCHER

12-down – Offensively obvious : BLATANT

15-down – See 13 : HOUSE

17-down – Red gemstone : RUBY

1-across – Book by Dickens : TITTLE

4-across – See 1 : DORRIT

8-across – Brief shining : GLEAM

9-across – Harry Percy – from Tottenham : HOTSPUR

10-across – Babble or gossip : CHATTER

11-across – Lever operated by foot : PEDAL

12-across – Made less relaxed : TIGHTENED

17-across – Edible organs : OFFAL

19-across – Unassumingness : MODESTY

21-across – Such as Sappho : POETESS

22-across – Sign of the Zodiac : VIRGO

23-across – Gnawing animal : RODENT

24-across – Great inventor : EDISON

1-down – Bequest : TEGACY

2-down – Book by Scott Fitzgerald : THELAST

3-down – Boundary : LIMIT

5-down – South African traveller’s rest – unyoke horses : OUTSPAN

6-down – Swift : RAPID

7-down – Marine reptile or dove : TURTLE

9-down – Book by Dickens : HARDTIMES

13-down – Spanish ship : GALLEON

14-down – Abandons – just reward : DESERTS

15-down – See 20 : COPPER

16-down – See 2 : TYCOON

18-down – See 20 : FIELD

20-down – Book by Dickens : DAVID

1-across – See 14 : REVISITED

8-across – Book by Evelyn Waugh : SCOOP

9-across – Vacuum flask : THERMOS

10-across – Engine attached to boat : OUTBOARD

11-across – Vent : FLUE

13-across – Vacillate : DITHER

14-across – Book by Evelyn Waugh : BRIDES

16-across – Ditto : SAME

17-across – Cause of change, itself unchanged : CATALYST

19-across – Wealthy : OPULENT

20-across – Housey-housey : BINGO

21-across – Deprive of water : DEHYDRATE

1-down – Censured : REPROVED

2-down – Devotee : VOTARY

3-down – Look for : SEEK

4-down – Sequel : TUMBLEDRYING

5-down – Permission to break a rule : DISPENSATION

6-down – Perfectly behaved : ASGOODASGOLD

7-down – Method of resuscitation : MOUTHTOMOUTH

12-down – Explanatory foreword : PREAMBLE

15-down – Italian city, home of Virgil : MANTUA

18-down – See 14 : HEAD