The petticoated.com Quick Crossword
by Charles
Thanks to the creative ability of Charles, the PDQ crossword will become a feature of every issue until further notice. However, the crosswords will usually be more straightforward than the thorny, multi-faceted challenges that Charles has prepared for the Winter issue, and the 2001 Christmas Annual. So see how you fare with this one:
ACROSS

1 In shape, like Rubik's enigmatic toy. (5)
5 Sell it to deceive an opponent or buy it to comfort a little one. (5)
8 "––, Altar, Hymn" Frank Muir's punning description of a bride's attitude to her betrothed. (5)
9 Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, for example. (5)
10 Add ornament or fictitious detail to. (9)
11 Mineral spring. (3)
12 Lingerie (familiarly). (5-6)
15 A bra mess? - Red! (anagram) (11)
19 Litte devil (needs a dose of petticoat discipline perhaps). (3)
20 Mortify (as Nanny might, to a naughty boy!) (9)
22 Monetary unit of India. (5)
23 Star Trek, for example. (3-2)
24 Do it to kill - you could turn heads. (5)
25 Town in N.E. France. (5)

DOWN

1 Lingerie chic! Am I so lewd to show it? (8)
2 Writing desk. (6)
3&7 Could be 365 or 366 days. (8, 4)
4 Line of equal pressure on a weather map. (6)
5 Short protest march. (4)
6 Make hackles rise. (6)
13 Wild uncontrollable excitement or emotion (8)
14 Two might be comfy with housecoat  - and one might warm a bottom! (8)
16 "If the law supposes that," said Mr. ––…, "the law is a ass - a idiot." Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens. (6)
17 Slow movement. (6)
18 An American baby's nappy. (6)
20 Christopher Robin's dressing gown had one. (4)
21 Miss MacDonald's word for a girl, perhaps. (4)


Writer Competition

Nobody picked Marlene Dietrich in the Film Star Competition, so let's see how you all go with this one:

The writer pictured was the creator of extraordinarily complex and darkly comic fables, with faery tale settings, but with the atmosphere of frustrating bad dreams. And here he is with his two sisters, all in their very best clothes for that all-important trip to the portrait photographer's.

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