The Guardian - Quick crossword No 15,159 - Dec 7 2018
Clues | Answers |
Aircraft's wing foil that controls lateral motion | AILERON |
Avoidance | EVASION |
Brandy | COGNAC |
Capital of Afghanistan | KABUL |
Captain Nemo's submarine | NAUTILUS |
Charmed | BEGUILED |
Children's game with bat and tennis ball | FRENCHCRICKET |
Compunction | REMORSE |
Flat mass of sea ice | FLOE |
Full extent | GAMUT |
Instrument to magnify the image of distant objects | TELESCOPE |
Italian hero, who led his 'Thousand Redshirts' against the Austrians, d. 1882 | GARIBALDI |
King Edward, for example | POTATO |
Large Spanish estate | HACIENDA |
Mechanism firing up an internal-combustion engine | IGNITION |
Period immediately before | EVE |
Plagiarise | CRIB |
Red playing cards | HEARTS |
Stubborn refusal to compromise | INTRANSIGENCE |
Swedish prize-giver | NOBEL |
Sweet fleshy fruit, often dried | FIG |
Take-off and landing strip | RUNWAY |
Unpleasantly harsh in sound | GRATING |
Unsmiling | GRIM |
Visible air pollution | SMOG |
Yellow fruit (it's also the answer!) | LEMON |
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