The Guardian – Weekend crossword No 376 – Mar 17 2018
Published in The Guardian Weekend. Tags: BLOCK, New York, NICKLEBY, RAKE.
| 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 |