back to contents

Inspector Morse Crossword

Set By Andrew Butler

 

The answers to last issue’s crossword are given below, along with the latest one submitted by Andrew Butler for this year’s Oxford Revisited weekend held in August. The answers will be given in the next issue. Thanks again to Andrew Butler for his efforts in compiling this latest cryptic offering.


Down

1. Port Meadow Drive is in this village (10)
3. Fuel for a concealment plan (4)
4. One could get bogged down in a valley of strong emotion (13)
5. Someone to watch over Morse (10)
6. You have to go a lony way to get Morse's goat (9)
8. Has bad air made Omar feverish? (7)
10. Sounds as if a sauteed saint is not narrow (10)
15. Group keen on a docu-drama (7)
17. Clerical dress is more than the situation requires (8)
18. This seagull stops the cat napping (9)
19. Parlmer's accomplice (7)
20. One of the mob running foreign exams (6)
24. A United aim, rarely achieved? (4)
25. The evidence of those who fib again is not so dependable (4)

Across

2. A classical guide (8)
7. So big you should never forget it (5)
9. All that is left to identify (7)
11. Expressed in a card from Monica (4)
12. A lively, brisk conveyance (7)
13. Don't lose the thread geting to this one (7)
14. Either Brooks or Gilbert could act to sell or let (5)
16. A bright celebration (5)
17. More at home with a sonnet that a psalm? (11)
21. Memorable outpourings (7)
22. Hilary's succesor (7)
23. Star of a tearjerker kiddies' film (3)
25. Did a Churchill sleep here after cocktails? (8)
26. Take a leaf out of the Canadians' cook when pinning messages to trees (5)
27. Far too solemn to be a batman outfit (8)
28. What you get for putting two & two together (6,3)