The Aviation Advocacy Annual Cryptic Crossword
Once a year, we like to have some fun with the words that we all use. Nothing is a more fun way to have fun playing with words than to do cryptic crossword, so this is your chance! Let us know how you get on… Across 1 Muddled along to Boston. (5)
4 Look, no time within to measure speed. (4)
7 Aviator, tai-less, arranged aircraft. (4)
8 Indian ruler follows British airline as if mad. (7)
12 Backward leg and the French airport in Berlin (5)
15 Area controlled by Christmas tree. (3)
16 Crazy cricket, gnu and rat delivers food to aircraft. (8,5)
20 Initially over the counter at Bol. (3)
21 Taking note of sovereign after reversing vehicle. (8)
22 Gosh, a rabbit at Chicago. (5)
23 Give advice to airmen, but never before midday. (5)
25 Graduate airline. (2)
27 Polish airline spotted in flotilla. (3)
28 Edith loses 3.14 but finds her national airline. (2)
30 South American call signal. (4)
31 Fighter sounds like a big storm. (7)
33 Half bake a Korean airline. (2)
34 Con-trail! (7)
35 Greek character sends signal. (5)
Down
1 Factor to get on board. (4)
2 Kit allows speed change. (4)
3 Surveillance agency at beach resort in Queensland. (3)
5 Sounds like a story at back of aircraft. (4)
6 Semi-arid Argentinian carrier. (2)
9 Two blokes claim son at UK airport. (8)
10 Take away any tangy Thai. (2)
11 No Japanese fighter. (4)
13 European decorating style, less a century, but with an initial night time reading list, defines European agency. (11)
14 Presidential airport. (3)
16 Angry side wind. (5)
17 Mum carries Mexican food to airport near Seattle. (6)
18 Ego-less road rage? Mad to find traffic. (5)
19 Three new pieces of silver at Geneva. (8)
24 Sounds like you should pay attention to the exchange of goods. (6)
26 Warm? The Spanish call signal. (5)
29 Increasingly, animal instinct supports an airport in Fiji. (4)
30 Slack American airport. (3)
32 Initially passenger builds new way to navigate. (3)