rowid,clue,answer,clues_fts,rank
287811,"Ban EU travel until, finally, non-existent (4)",,228344,
1482,Strut around Hamilton with pasty-eating top executive (5),,228344,
1503,Birthday’s coming up: look to stop that old person's curse!,,228344,
2473,this clue didn't remind anyone else of the epoch-shatteringly bad Bennifer movie...,,228344,
2474,"RIP - sounds like ""LET'S RIP"", which could be an invitation to copy software or what have you",,228344,
2475,"- SLIGHT [small] ""seals"" {shor}E",,228344,
2476,"- CURTAIL [dock] replacing its last letter with... um, N for large? Think I'm missing something",,228344,
2477,- AN NOD AM [an | agreement | earlier in the day] reversed,,228344,
2478,- {br}ECHT - German playwright (Bertolt) losing his BR for British,,228344,
2479,"- (MEETING NOT*) [""for reorganising""]",,228344,
2480,"- humorously misconstrued, if you only spend a single second in command, you've been a very short time at the top",,228344,
2481,- double def,,228344,
5071,"the brass bands play: ""Tidd[e]ly-om-pom-pom!""",,228344,
5072,"BACK: double definition, the first facetious.",,228344,
5073,"IN (hip), HALER (more robust). A pedant might object that it expands the bronchi, not the chest, but near enough.",,228344,
5074,"MILL: FLOUR sounds like “flower”, as in “the flower of English womanhood”. The philosopher is John Stuart MILL.",,228344,
5075,spelled out by the first letters (“the faces”) of each word.,,228344,
5076,"sounds like SOW FEAR, at least to non-rhotic speakers (those who don’t stress their “r”s).",,228344,
7366,South African lynx runs ahead of boor in grass (7),,228344,
7367,"Help with vessel, Sinbad’s cutter? (7)",,228344,
7368,Stick Old Testament in non-standard agreement for faith schools (9),,228344,
7369,"What might make trunk sticky, foul-minded nurses? (5)",,228344,
7370,"Unfinished poem, hard in Armenian (5)",,228344,
7371,a poem,,228344,
7372,very diffic,,228344,
7373,"- S(mall) + AGITTATE, worry with a ""double nucleus""",,228344,
7374,"- DIE (perish) + FF (following repeated) + B(ANKS) in *(CHINA SEA). Tricky! Fortunately a word I had come across before, but the wordplay was hard to unravel.. ages spent thinking there would be a BB in there somewhere",,228344,
7375,"- RH + Y (unknown, not x or z) + PA (aide) + RAP (strike) and H(ours) in ROGER (understood).",,228344,
7376,"- IMP (terror, eg my grandson) + ROMP (spree) + ( AU )TU(MN)",,228344,
7377,"- hmm, I think this is CLEAN (without difficulties) ""cycled"" into ANCLE. Not a device I recall seeing before",,228344,
7378,"- HC + T(HAT) + UK, all rev.",,228344,
7379,"- E(nglish) and OZ, rev. in BARDIC (related to lyricists). Nice surface!",,228344,
7380,- R(un) + *(RESORT),,228344,
7382,"In sunshine, it’s surprising infidels among the Ottomans (6)",,228344,
7383,Outsiders displace Gift Aid’s regular contributions (7),,228344,
7384,"Red-flowering plant starts in area in front of house, perhaps carnation coming up (9)",,228344,
7385,Obstacles for cavalry: louts rode unsteadily on horseback (5-2-4),,228344,
7386,Stop Her Highness seizing ring (3),,228344,
7387,Aged female relative’s sister capturing a brother’s heart (5),,228344,
7388,"Flowery muslin stuff seen on lion-tamer, more than half visible (7)",,228344,
7389,Upset once scriptural teaching is on new division in Biblical chapter (8),,228344,
7390,"Perth beggar’s lifted pouch, form of lure that is found around New Zealand (11)",,228344,
7391,Headed mushroom consumed by Henry? (9),,228344,
7392,See someone gathering stuff on ground that covers Channel Islands up? (8),,228344,
7393,About time to neuter mounting dog (7),,228344,
7394,"Cut off old-style pledge, upset (at giving way to crude signature?) (7)",,228344,
7395,In Rhineland I must interrupt visit for “rock” in body of water (6),,228344,
7396,Brass work that’s tedious moving over to first place (5),,228344,
7397,Wader leaving northernmost island again (3),,228344,
8588,"the word, although I saw it from the wordplay once I had a couple of helpers. Wikipedia tells me: Ætheling (also spelt Aetheling, Atheling or Etheling) was an Old English term used in Anglo-Saxon England to designate princes of the royal dynasty who were eligible for the kingship.",,228344,
11037,"had great trouble with this clue! On my first pass I confidently wrote in TRAPPED = T[ape] + RAPPED, meaning “caught”. Then 19dn had an “I”, not an “A”. Oh well … I suppose TRIPPED works pretty much equally well! Only when I decided 3dn couldn’t possibly end “I-P” did I realise the definition must be “caught on”! Well done, setter.",,228344,
11038,"PAY (foot, the bill for example) around (about) ISLE (an inch).",,228344,
11039,"AS (when) following M (mass) and X (times), the last two letters reversed (reflecting).",,228344,
11214,afterpiece is a short dramatic entertainment performed after the principal play.,,228344,
11215,- hidden reversed in {che}EKY D{adaist},,228344,
11216,"- double def with COR, NICE! [appreciative exclamation]",,228344,
11217,"- (O THE S S S) [""played""]. Mistress Quickly from the same Shakespeare plays in which you'll find Falstaff.",,228344,
11218,- homophone of EARN [to take home]. Trap being a mouth here.,,228344,
11219,- AB SO LUTIST [muscle | hence | someone pulling/plucking the strings],,228344,
11220,"A - TAMIN{g} [checking, ""short""] ""cuts"" VIA [using]",,228344,
11221,"- TAUT [pulled - hard] + ON [leg] + reversed MY [of the setter]. A tautonym is eg Gorilla gorilla, where genus and species name are the same.",,228344,
11222,- GRIM [threatening] + AL{ad}DI{n}. Joseph Grimaldi of Victorian times.,,228344,
11413,"pluperfect tense denotes an action completed prior to some past point of time specified or implied, formed in English by had and the past participle, as in he had gone by then. Hands up anyone who knew that without having studied Latin, Greek or Times crosswords!",,228344,
11414,backwards hidden answer.,,228344,
11415,"FIX = difficulty, ATE = worried.",,228344,
11416,"I YAK = “rabbit I"", had inside TERI = every second letter of “ThE tRaIn”.",,228344,
11417,"cryptic definition, relating to how Miss Muffet reacted to the spider.",,228344,
13539,"sure how many time signals you get on TV in these days of ubiquitous mobile phones, but I assume they used to be happen and be very useful in the day?",,228344,
13540,OUP [= Oxford University Press = publisher] wants a C [chapter] at the front,,228344,
13541,"COLE [old king (in the nursery rhyme)] keeping ARI{d} [dry ""for the most part""]",,228344,
13542,"after FED reversed [US agent ""returned""], LATE [behind schedule]",,228344,
13543,WELL IN [very familiar] with G TON [good | fashion],,228344,
13544,A [area] at end of GO [journey],,228344,
13545,O O [two eggs] + LONG [potentially boring],,228344,
13546,double def,,228344,
13547,"THE SLY: (HONESTLY*) [""manoeuvring""]",,228344,
13548,reverse all of REC COS [sports ground + companies],,228344,
13549,"double def. RAY as in doh-ray-mi-fah, the second note of the diatonic scale.",,228344,
13550,"DATES [particular days], collecting OCTO{be}R [one month, but with BE ""avoided""]",,228344,
13551,"reverse all of RED O ORB [left-wing | sphere, ""without"" (as in outside of) O for love]",,228344,
13552,"SKIER [sportsperson] ""digesting"" PP [pianissimo = very quiet]",,228344,
13553,"SEND [to despatch], its first letter moved to the end",,228344,
13559,Greene surely must be the author to have made most appearances in cryptics due to his helpful letters. Are there any other contenders?,,228344,
13560,"ADDIC{t}ION [habit, losing its C for cold]",,228344,
13561,"(I G{rimace} A LOT A*) [""nasty""]",,228344,
13562,POE [author] gets presented with TASTERS [samples],,228344,
18904,ewe-necked horse has a thin concave neck. Not to be confused with a V-necked sweater.,,228344,
18908,"""pay"" is to waterproof a boat by sealing it with tar.",,228344,
18909,- CO [carbon monoxide = harmful gas] found by JONES [Welshman],,228344,
18910,"- {n}AV{y} + I'S [one's], all reversed for this Hindu deity.",,228344,
18911,- L IKE MINDED [Liberal | President (Eisenhower) | tended],,228344,
18912,TOWN - SPAT OWN [argument | to have],,228344,
18913,"- DALI [Spaniard (Salvador) who painted] in {m}OSQUE [place of worship, ""topless""]",,228344,
20642,else a little Conservative!,,228344,
20643,- OUT [unfashionable] + homophone of DONNE.,,228344,
20644,"- Not sure if this is a reference to Olivia Manning's novel ""School for Love""? I'm afraid to say I bunged this in after ruling out SHADOWS, assuming it was a Twelfth Night reference... but if it is, it's gone over my head!",,228344,
20645,"- (MAR TRUE*) [""representation""], semi-&lit",,228344,
20646,- Meursault being Camus's Outsider.,,228344,
20647,THINGS - T{able} + EATING S [consuming | seconds] about H{our},,228344,
20648,"- a not-very-cryptic cryptic definition? Or perhaps ""of imprisonment"" is cluing OF LAG? Reader, I biffed it.",,228344,
20649,- IX [nine] to I ON [one | on]. Better known for being bound to a fiery wheel for eternity than for being any kind of wise and just monarch to the Lapiths.,,228344,