Original cryptic crosswords by Algy

Block crossword BL_0003


BL_0003 puzzle

This puzzle was started in 2003 and completed in 2016!

ACROSS

  1. Edible plant to injure backward insurgent by the railway (11)
  2. Somebody has to bounce evenly! (3)
  3. Anticipation of soft eater perhaps (9)
  4. She is on lee at sea (5)
  5. & 20. Military historian’s specialist subject? (7, 9)
  6. Spanish lady, unnamed perhaps and not a maiden (6)
  7. Consume short Hindu wife belonging to us (6)
  8. Spotted that it wasn’pt chilled (7)
  9. From here you get a bird’s eye view, but only when the dentist has left! (5)
  10. See 13
  11. Find a peeper in Abbey estates (3)
  12. Compel nice estates to be destroyed (11)

DOWN

  1. Apply simultaneous equations. The answer’s in there! (3)
  2. Shakespearean clump where little miss sat endlessly (5)
  3. Provoke agitated sergeant. No good man! (6)
  4. Understanding direction sheltering shelter (7)
  5. Raging river rose in receptacle (9)
  6. Naked herons turn into a viper (6,5)
  7. Properly arranged a short join - peer appears before Democrat! (4-7)
  8. Re-elect? Do agitate the conductor! (9)
  9. Streamlined engine casing is cleanable perhaps when sailor’s gone (7)
  10. Formless, timeless Dadaist has a sporty name (6)
  11. Put forth unknown in climbing tree (5)
  12. Take meat without the head on! (3)

BL_0003 solution