<< All Past Crosswords
Cryptic 15x15 Standard Crossword - Compiled By John Mann
Date: 19 Feb 2007
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
© dowedo.net 2024
Across
7. Ascend with a headless member (4)
8. Manage commercial on clergyman (10)
9. BAnking system used by Inland Revenue in turn (4)
10. Liquidate gradually to armies of creditors, possibly (8)
11. Basic monetary unit in Romania (3)
12. City noted for its chicken? (4)
13. Syrupy blackcurrant drink (6)
14. The snake in the boardroom (3)
15. Camelot lady (4)
16. Offensive term for a noticeably masculine lesbian (4)
17. Take a mouthful of soup from which nothing is missing (3)
18. Gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby (6)
20. Attraction of daughter released from veil (4)
22. Rummy chronic drinker (3)
23. Once, Mum and I excited high commendation (8)
25. Frilly Elizabethan collar (4)
26. Equal parts espresso and hot milk with cinnamon and nutmeg (10)
27. Embrace or fondle with passion (4)
Down
1. The cask left Turin by car for an Adriatic port (6)
2. Jack found the answer and was set free (8)
3. It's no good berating us about this engine (3-7)
4. VAT costs winter sportsman 20% upfront (4)
5. Chest I ransack for rules of conduct (6)
6. Vegetables well prepared on certain courses (6)
10. Sauna made splash to a quite disgusting extent (2,7)
13. Deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering (10)
16. A philosophical system discovered in Crediton? (8)
18. Part of a cannonade to blast gap in fortification, we hear (6)
19. Strength possibly deployed in the movement of arms (6)
21. Not skating to workplace today? (6)
24. A disdainful pouting grimace (4)