February 2009

1-across – Aquatic animal : FISH

3-across – Thin type of china : EGGSHELL

8-across – Grade : RANK

9-across – Highly charged speech : HARANGUE

11-across – Device for seeing very small objects : MICROSCOPE

14-across – Industrial action : STRIKE

15-across – Whiten – disinfectant : BLEACH

17-across – Seaman’s term for non-seaman : LANDLUBBER

20-across – Battleship in film : POTEMKIN

21-across – Broken – bosom : BUST

22-across – Chew – ponder : RUMINATE

23-across – Having little width : THIN

1-down – Principal : FOREMOST

2-down – Paid job requiring little work : SINECURE

4-down – Quick look : GLANCE

5-down – Philatelist’s book : STAMPALBUM

6-down – Nervous : EDGY

7-down – Vegetable associated with Wales : LEEK

10-down – Catfish as food : ROCKSALMON

12-down – Playwright and architect of Blenheim Palace : VANBRUGH

13-down – Another’s : SHERATON

16-down – Victim of habit : ADDICT

18-down – Incentive – branch : SPUR

19-down – Stalk – check : STEM

1-across – Problem facing the planet : GLOBALWARMING

8-across – Bath’s river : AVON

9-across – Undomesticated fauna and flora : WILDLIFE

10-across – Choice : PREFERENCE

12-across – Relative : NEPHEW

14-across – Be in no hurry to go : LINGER

15-across – What profiteers have an eye to : MAINCHANCE

19-across – Herb : TARRAGON

20-across – Means of transport : RAIL

21-across – Effect of 1 : CLIMATECHANGE

2-down – Wearing uniform eg of footmen : LIVERIED

3-down – Town : BANFF

4-down – Person of uncultivated tastes : LOWBROW

5-down – Exhausted – no holds barred : ALLIN

6-down – Town and hills of Worcestershire : MALVERN

7-down – Tasteless : NAFF

11-down – Attractive : FETCHING

13-down – Ordinary – monotonous : HUMDRUM

14-down – Terse : LACONIC

16-down – Lump of gold etc : INGOT

17-down – Open-roofed entrance halls : ATRIA

18-down – First king of Israel : SAUL

1-across – Ounce : SNOWLEOPARD

9-across – Beatrix Potter character : TOMKITTEN

10-across – Standard : PAR

11-across – Timepiece : CLOCK

13-across – Early film star and director : CHAPLIN

14-across – Account book : LEDGER

15-across – Phantom : WRAITH

18-across – Writing system for the blind : BRAILLE

20-across – Encourage – applaud : CHEER

21-across – Sever – hurt – snub : CUT

22-across – Red or white blood cell : CORPUSCLE

24-across – Accusation of guilt in court : PROSECUTION

2-down – Game with piles of matches : NIM

3-down – Line : WRINKLE

4-down – Allure : ENTICE

5-down – Columbus’s ship – some milk! : PINTA

6-down – Disgusting : REPULSIVE

7-down – Fish : STICKLEBACK

8-down – Chips : FRENCHFRIES

12-down – Classic painter : OLDMASTER

16-down – New member : RECRUIT

17-down – Non-imperial : METRIC

19-down – Particular position : LOCUS

23-down – Sound of dove : COO

1-across – State of tension and hostility : COLDWAR

8-across – Payment to divorcee : ALIMONY

9-across – Fictional Royal Flying Corps hero : BIGGLES

10-across – Include – restrict : CONTAIN

11-across – Dance : TANGO

13-across – Information sheet put up in room : WALLCHART

15-across – Blair’s triple mantra : EDUCATION

18-across – Eccentric – starting handle : CRANK

21-across – After the proper time : BELATED

22-across – Extent of being heard : EARSHOT

23-across – Flavouring from crocus : SAFFRON

24-across – Revolutionary ousted by Stalin : TROTSKY

1-down – Ancient measure of length : CUBIT

2-down – Enter online program : LOGON

3-down – Chinese-style landscape design for china : WILLOWPATTERN

4-down – Scamp : RASCAL

5-down – The Emperor, for example : PIANOCONCERTO

6-down – Piece of music : SONATA

7-down – Young bird : CYGNET

12-down – Polluted precipitation : ACID

14-down – See 12 : RAIN

15-down – Carve etc so as to raise from surface : EMBOSS

16-down – Elevation : UPLIFT

17-down – Move in from margin : INDENT

19-down – Mount – musketeer : ATHOS

20-down – Pool : KITTY