The Guardian – Weekend crossword No 376 – Mar 17 2018
Published in The Guardian Weekend. Tags: BLOCK, New York, NICKLEBY, RAKE.
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| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| 1987 political thriller starring Kevin Costner and Sean Young | NOWAYOUT |
| Aircraft used in the Hiroshima bombing of 6 August 1945 | ENOLAGAY |
| Catherine __, co-founder of the Salvation Army | BOOTH |
| Curve said to describe the relationship between taxation levels and actual receipts | LAFFER |
| Fictional animal hunted by Lewis Carroll? | SNARK |
| French pilgrimage site – or the daughter of Madonna? | LOURDES |
| Iraqi town on the Tigris | TIKRIT |
| James __, noir author whose Robicheaux stories are set in Louisiana | LEEBURKE |
| Muriel __, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | SPARK |
| Nicholas __, novel by Dickens | NICKLEBY |
| Nigerian author of The Famished Road | BENOKRI |
| Noir author whose novels are often set in Florida or Detroit | ELMORE |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Noir author whose Scudder stories are set in New York | LAWRENCE |
| Noir author whose Spenser stories are set in Boston | ROBERTB |
| Noir author whose Warshawski stories are set in Chicago | SARA |
| Norse god of thunder | THOR |
| Norse god of wisdom and poetry | ODIN |
| See 1 Down | LEONARD |
| See 17 Across | PARKER |
| See 2 Down | PARETSKY |
| See 5 Down | BLOCK |
| Type of gentleman whose progress was documented by Hogarth? | RAKE |
| Welsh hill, known in English as the Sugar Loaf | YFAL |
| __ Mahler, Viennese socialite immortalised by Tom Lehrer? | ALMA |