November 2007

1-across – Book by Defoe : MOLL

3-across – See 1 : FLANDERS

8-across – Fleet : NAVY

9-across – South American capital city : ASUNCION

11-across – Eating place : RESTAURANT

14-across – Book by Thackeray : VANITY

15-across – Kingdom of Middle England : MERCIA

17-across – Further tremor following quake : AFTERSHOCK

20-across – Characteristics handed down from ancestors : HEREDITY

21-across – See 14 : FAIR

22-across – Training college for priests : SEMINARY

23-across – Pile : HEAP

1-down – Tree growing in swamps : MANGROVE

2-down – Chanson d’amour : LOVESONG

4-down – Renown – sheen : LUSTRE

5-down – Down-to-earth : NONONSENSE

6-down – Way out : EXIT

7-down – Decline – in the kitchen : SINK

10-down – Book by Steinbeck : EASTOFEDEN

12-down – Award, originally of knighthood : ACCOLADE

13-down – Against which action is played out : BACKDROP

16-down – Rankle : FESTER

18-down – So : THUS

19-down – Tot : DRAM

1-across – Book by Aldous Huxley : BRAVENEWWORLD

8-across – Doctoring of news etc : SPIN

9-across – Book by Arthur Ransome : SWALLOWS

10-across – Scene of Falklands battle : GOOSEGREEN

12-across – Disease from lack of vitamin C : SCURVY

14-across – Child’s word for farm animal : MOOCOW

15-across – See 9 : ANDAMAZONS

19-across – Campaigner or winner : CHAMPION

20-across – Boast – card game : BRAG

21-across – Pleasant to associate with : COMPANIONABLE

2-down – Blame : REPROACH

3-down – Goddess of love : VENUS

4-down – Small bunch of flowers : NOSEGAY

5-down – Large animal : WHALE

6-down – Shakespeare hero – book by Virginia Woolf : ORLANDO

7-down – Obscene : LEWD

11-down – Failure : DOWNFALL

13-down – Plan for travel – or for peace : ROADMAP

14-down – Souvenir : MEMENTO

16-down – Condescend : DEIGN

17-down – Striped horse : ZEBRA

18-down – Go away! : SHOO

1-across – Stopper : CORK

3-across – Faithful supporter : HENCHMAN

9-across – Falsely sentimental : MAWKISH

10-across – Aid for a straight line : RULER

11-across – Jeans material : DENIM

12-across – Microscopic test for disease : BIOPSY

14-across – Company taking over another, then selling it off piecemeal : ASSETSTRIPPER

17-across – TV room? : STUDIO

19-across – Ludicrous situation : FARCE

22-across – Wedding attendant : USHER

23-across – Wicked : IMMORAL

24-across – Very high male voice : FALSETTO

25-across – Leg hinge : KNEE

1-down – Stand-up : COMEDIAN

2-down – Mountain ash : ROWAN

4-down – Flasher? : EXHIBITIONIST

5-down – Small fascinating collectible object : CURIO

6-down – Feeble male : MILKSOP

7-down – Standard : NORM

8-down – Fate : KISMET

13-down – Conservative through and through : TRUEBLUE

15-down – Latches : SATCHEL

16-down – Notoriety : INFAMY

18-down – Jo _____, former British No 1 women’s tennis player : DURIE

20-down – Repeat showing : RERUN

21-down – Expert – polish : BUFF

1-across – ABC : ALPHABET

5-across – Sound of a stone hitting water : PLOP

9-across – Mistake : ERROR

10-across – Free : RELEASE

11-across – Suffer through lack of money : FEELTHEPINCH

13-across – Shifty : LOUCHE

14-across – North African Muslim : BERBER

17-across – Have a tantrum : THROWAWOBBLY

20-across – Floor show : CABARET

21-across – Get out of : AVOID

22-across – Leaning tower city : PISA

23-across – Former name of Zimbabwe : RHODESIA

1-down – Help a criminal : ABET

2-down – Upstart : PARVENU

3-down – Seasonal rain : APRILSHOWERS

4-down – Unrefined : EARTHY

6-down – What to do at school : LEARN

7-down – Excess : PLETHORA

8-down – Film maker’s aid : CLAPPERBOARD

12-down – Stereotypical headgear for the working classes : CLOTHCAP

15-down – Nauseating : BILIOUS

16-down – Muscle spasm : TWITCH

18-down – Picture and word puzzle : REBUS

19-down – Notion : IDEA

1-across – Tightly package in flexible plastic : SHRINKWRAP

7-across – Hand-out : LEAFLET

8-across – Bulky : LARGE

10-across – Fuel – drink – drug : COKE

11-across – Introductory piece : OVERTURE

13-across – Trendy : WITHIT

15-across – Indian man of peace : GANDHI

17-across – Poisonous woodland fungus : DEATHCAP

18-across – Revered person or symbol : ICON

21-across – Practice of witchcraft : WICCA

22-across – Male underwear : YFRONTS

23-across – Smother : ASPHYXIATE

1-down – Hit – drug : SMACK

2-down – Irritate : RILE

3-down – Indigenous : NATIVE

4-down – Erudite : WELLREAD

5-down – On the rocks : AGROUND

6-down – American spider, the female of which eats her mate : BLACKWIDOW

9-down – Onlooker : EYEWITNESS

12-down – Hotchpotch : MISHMASH

14-down – Hypnotic states : TRANCES

16-down – Voice-box : LARYNX

19-down – Ocean : CANOE

20-down – Killer whale : ORCA