Hopefully nothing too hard here. For some reason I wanted 15ac to be ALTAR for a while (A large being AL and in front of church being the definition) but after drawing various blanks on where TAR could have come from I moved on and saw the error of my ways!
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 1 | WALTHAMSTOW – WALT (Disney) + HAMS + TOW |
| 9 | ILLEGAL – ILL + E + GAL |
| 10 | SANTA FE – ANT in SAFE |
| 11 | NAZE – hidden in JonathaN (AZEd) |
| 12 | BELLWETHER – RING + HER about WET |
| 14 | CENTIPEDE – “SCENT” + I + DEEP* |
| 15 | TORCH – TO + R + CH |
| 16 | TEMPT – TEMP + T |
| 17 | STRAW DOGS – TOWARDS* + G + S |
| 20 | INTOLERANT – ONTRAINLET* |
| 21 | TEST – dd |
| 23 | SOLVENT – SOLENT around (De)V(on) |
| 24 | ON LEAVE – ONE around VALE* |
| 25 | ANYTHING BUT – NIGHTBYAUNT* |
| Down | |
| 1 | WALTZING MATILDA – WALTZING + MATILDA. The Empress Maud was also known as Matilda. |
| 2 | LOGE – LOG + E |
| 3 | HELLENE – HELEN around L + (fridg)E |
| 4 | MOSELLE – MO’S + ELLE |
| 5 | TINSELTOWN – WENTONLIST* |
| 6 | WEATHER FORECAST – cd |
| 7 | PICNIC – dd ref. the idiom ‘no picnic’ |
| 8 | SEARCH – SEAR + CH |
| 13 | DISTILLERY – (TIRED + SILLY)* &lit |
| 16 | THIRST – T-SHIRT* |
| 17 | STRETCH – dd |
| 18 | RUN DOWN – RUN + DOWN |
| 19 | SETTER – cd |
| 22 | SLOB – SOB around L |
Common crossword abbreviations this week
European = E
one = I
right = R
church = CH
direction = S, N, E or W
English = E
litre = L
child = CH
pound = L
This one took me under ten minutes. May not sound like anything special to you gouys, but this is the first one I’ve beaten that quickly, so either the Everyman is getting easier or I’m getting better at it.