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 |