Complete Clue List
Across
1. College for nursing in Toronto (init.)
6. French law
7. Sum up, briefly
9. Second British campaign medal awarded for the conflict; ____ South Africa
10. Sport played on horseback by British officers
11. Other ranks; enlisted ___
13. Spanish for heavenly body used for heliographic communication during the Boer War
15. Defender of Mafeking, later Scouting Movement founder; Lord ____ (5-6)
16. Acronym used during WWII
17. Welsh champion boxer killed at Battle of Belmont 1899; ___ St. John
18. River in Flanders
20. Rifle accessory
23. After Korn Spruit, Q Battery was asked to ____ Victoria Cross recipients
24. Beverage craved by Tommies and Boers alike, perhaps
25. Dairy product, likely in short supply in besieged towns
Down
1. Scots unit involved at Modder River, Magersfontein et al (init.)
2. Author of "The Great Boer War" (and some famous mysteries) Sir Arthur ____ (5,5)
3. Porky?
4. Group of three (like the besieged towns, perhaps)
5. British losses between 10 and 17 December 1899 were this
8. More common in British army than Boer commandos; ___-order ____ (5,5)
9. Besieged diamond mining town
10. Musician attached to 1 Down
12. Besieged in Ladysmith, people were forced to ___ horseflesh
14. Portuguese greeting, or Spanish wave
19. Caesar to his friend "___, Brute?" (2,2)
21. Type of lyric poem
22. Laing's ___; battle in First Boer War, 1881