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rowid | clue | answer | definition ▼ | clue_number | puzzle_date | puzzle_name | source_url | source |
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11215 | - hidden reversed in {che}EKY D{adaist} | DYKEa | 2019-11-21 | Times 27,515 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2243399.html | times_xwd_times | ||
11216 | - double def with COR, NICE! [appreciative exclamation] | CORNICEa | 2019-11-21 | Times 27,515 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2243399.html | times_xwd_times | ||
11217 | - (O THE S S S) ["played"]. Mistress Quickly from the same Shakespeare plays in which you'll find Falstaff. | HOSTESSa | 2019-11-21 | Times 27,515 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2243399.html | times_xwd_times | ||
11218 | - homophone of EARN [to take home]. Trap being a mouth here. | ERNEa | 2019-11-21 | Times 27,515 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2243399.html | times_xwd_times | ||
11219 | - AB SO LUTIST [muscle | hence | someone pulling/plucking the strings] | ABSOLUTISTa | 2019-11-21 | Times 27,515 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2243399.html | times_xwd_times | ||
11220 | A - TAMIN{g} [checking, "short"] "cuts" VIA [using] | VITAMINa | 2019-11-21 | Times 27,515 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2243399.html | times_xwd_times | ||
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. | TAUTONYMa | 2019-11-21 | Times 27,515 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2243399.html | times_xwd_times | ||
11222 | - GRIM [threatening] + AL{ad}DI{n}. Joseph Grimaldi of Victorian times. | GRIMALDIa | 2019-11-21 | Times 27,515 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2243399.html | times_xwd_times | ||
11223 | - COL [depression] and ADO [fuss], with OR [men] "getting in" | DOWN | COLORADOa | 2019-11-21 | Times 27,515 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2243399.html | times_xwd_times | |
11277 | Receiving delivery when someone rings before ten (5,2,3,4) | SAVED BY THE BELL | 20a | 2017-09-02 | Times Saturday 26814 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1803572.html | times_xwd_times | |
11286 | He’s no longer happy if forgetting name? (7) | SANDBOY | 5d | 2017-09-02 | Times Saturday 26814 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1803572.html | times_xwd_times | |
11287 | Oil press for two (5) | MEDIA | 7d | 2017-09-02 | Times Saturday 26814 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1803572.html | times_xwd_times | |
11320 | Queen needs him to carry the odd crown? No (8) | DETHRONE | 17d | 2015-05-17 | Sunday Times 4641 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1316196.html | times_xwd_times | |
11401 | ...after old gem (4) | OPAL | 52d | 2021-04-24 | Times Cryptic Jumbo 1492 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2525840.html | times_xwd_times | |
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! | Thea | 2018-03-24 | Times Cryptic No 26988 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1914094.html | times_xwd_times | ||
11414 | backwards hidden answer. | VEERa | 2018-03-24 | Times Cryptic No 26988 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1914094.html | times_xwd_times | ||
11415 | FIX = difficulty, ATE = worried. | FIXATEa | 2018-03-24 | Times Cryptic No 26988 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1914094.html | times_xwd_times | ||
11416 | I YAK = “rabbit I", had inside TERI = every second letter of “ThE tRaIn”. | TERIYAKIa | 2018-03-24 | Times Cryptic No 26988 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1914094.html | times_xwd_times | ||
11417 | cryptic definition, relating to how Miss Muffet reacted to the spider. | WHEYa | 2018-03-24 | Times Cryptic No 26988 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1914094.html | times_xwd_times | ||
11418 | I think this is just a cryptic definition, with the PO in the centre just serving to say how to spell it: with a -PO- rather than a -PPER-. | D | STRIPOGRAMa | 2018-03-24 | Times Cryptic No 26988 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1914094.html | times_xwd_times | |
11494 | Quite boring terribly rude landowner (7) | UDALLER | 21a | 2020-06-14 | Mephisto 3119 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2355701.html | times_xwd_times | |
11537 | One getting the sack maybe after us (7) | POSTMAN | 4d | 2017-07-14 | Quick Cryptic 874 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1775518.html | times_xwd_times | |
11606 | Waterway with biblical town on left (5) | CANAL | 5d | 2021-03-05 | Times Cryptic Jumbo 1484 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2500168.html | times_xwd_times | |
11771 | Those folk holding girl up somewhere in Greece (8) | THESSALY | 5d | 2018-06-16 | Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1327 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1959646.html | times_xwd_times | |
11774 | This person, a chum turns up in port (5) | DUBAI | 8d | 2018-06-16 | Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1327 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1959646.html | times_xwd_times | |
11856 | Parasite from horse burrowing into poor titmice (4-4) | ITCH-MITE | 12a | 2019-07-11 | Times 27400 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2170998.html | times_xwd_times | |
12058 | Furious about onlooker’s first jeer of derision (4) | HOOT | 3d | 2018-02-12 | QC 1025 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1893623.html | times_xwd_times | |
12083 | Rest in peace as everlasting (4) | EASE | 27a | 2021-05-16 | Times 27979 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2538937.html | times_xwd_times | |
12091 | Archaeological find: group with cash prepared to support it (11) | SARCOPHAGUS | 13d | 2021-05-16 | Times 27979 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2538937.html | times_xwd_times | |
12093 | Went by valley keeping especially to the north (7) | ELAPSED | 18d | 2021-05-16 | Times 27979 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2538937.html | times_xwd_times | |
12352 | Nuts lasted as they’re ____ (6) | SALTED | 23d | 2021-05-02 | Mephisto 3165 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2530018.html | times_xwd_times | |
12633 | Girl to live with Victor (3) | BEV | 5d | 2017-10-12 | Times Quick Cryptic No 938 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1825222.html | times_xwd_times | |
12791 | Went ballistic about girls initially being teased (6) | RAGGED | 21a | 2018-11-22 | Times Quick Cryptic No 1228 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2044366.html | times_xwd_times | |
12896 | In the main it constitutes a seismic convulsion (8) | SEAQUAKE | 9d | 2019-03-13 | Times 27297 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2104967.html | times_xwd_times | |
12897 | Dispatch oxygen round Herts town, gradually increasing speed (10) | STRINGENDO | 13d | 2019-03-13 | Times 27297 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2104967.html | times_xwd_times | |
13177 | Gem, ruby initially, set in ring (5) | PEARL | 8a | 2018-09-18 | Times Quick Cryptic 1181 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2009375.html | times_xwd_times | |
13358 | Hidden by hill, another plain (5) | LLANO | 26a | 2020-03-15 | Mephisto 3106 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2305310.html | times_xwd_times | |
13432 | Reginald (vicar?) upset church worker (6) | VERGER | 2d | 2021-06-08 | Times Quick Cryptic 1891 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2551050.html | times_xwd_times | |
13445 | In north-east, for example, start of virtual desert (5) | NEGEV | 9a | 2017-07-10 | Times Quick Cryptic 870 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1773158.html | times_xwd_times | |
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? | Nota | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13540 | OUP [= Oxford University Press = publisher] wants a C [chapter] at the front | COUPa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13541 | COLE [old king (in the nursery rhyme)] keeping ARI{d} [dry "for the most part"] | CARIOLEa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13542 | after FED reversed [US agent "returned"], LATE [behind schedule] | DEFLATEa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13543 | WELL IN [very familiar] with G TON [good | fashion] | WELLINGTONa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13544 | A [area] at end of GO [journey] | GOAa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13545 | O O [two eggs] + LONG [potentially boring] | OOLONGa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13546 | double def | CONTRACTa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13547 | THE SLY: (HONESTLY*) ["manoeuvring"] | ONa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13548 | reverse all of REC COS [sports ground + companies] | SOCCERa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13549 | double def. RAY as in doh-ray-mi-fah, the second note of the diatonic scale. | RAYa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13550 | DATES [particular days], collecting OCTO{be}R [one month, but with BE "avoided"] | DOCTORATESa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13551 | reverse all of RED O ORB [left-wing | sphere, "without" (as in outside of) O for love] | BROODERa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13552 | SKIER [sportsperson] "digesting" PP [pianissimo = very quiet] | SKIPPERa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13553 | SEND [to despatch], its first letter moved to the end | ENDSa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13554 | (MINT CREATE*) ["possibility for..."] | DOWN | REMITTANCEa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | |
13559 | Greene surely must be the author to have made most appearances in cryptics due to his helpful letters. Are there any other contenders? | Grahama | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13560 | ADDIC{t}ION [habit, losing its C for cold] | ADDITIONa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13561 | (I G{rimace} A LOT A*) ["nasty"] | OTALGIAa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13562 | POE [author] gets presented with TASTERS [samples] | POETASTERSa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | ||
13563 | F [loud] with UNCTION [obsequiousness] meeting A-LIST [bunch of celebs]. | H | FUNCTIONALISTa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html | times_xwd_times | |
13582 | System satisfied stretcher bearer (6) | METHOD | 25a | 2017-12-16 | Times Cryptic No 26904 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1861029.html | times_xwd_times | |
13587 | Making acceptable gaol? In time, it collapses (12) | LEGITIMATION | 4d | 2017-12-16 | Times Cryptic No 26904 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1861029.html | times_xwd_times | |
13724 | Gong in front of a chancel (4) | BEMA | 23a | 2021-05-23 | Mephisto 3168 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2542295.html | times_xwd_times | |
13748 | Fiddle at Kentucky Derby not entirely willingly, hard to get in (4) | SHOO | 26d | 2021-05-23 | Mephisto 3168 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2542295.html | times_xwd_times | |
13834 | Incisive way to bring issue to light? (9) | CAESARIAN | 15d | 2017-11-18 | Times Cryptic No 26880 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1845048.html | times_xwd_times | |
13884 | Very energetic rogue, George IV's deputy, perhaps? (10) | VICEREGENT | 27a | 2018-07-16 | Times 27091 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1976004.html | times_xwd_times | |
13913 | As some say, Dorothy or Charlie's coat (5) | PARKA | 13a | 2019-05-04 | Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1377 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2133815.html | times_xwd_times | |
13971 | Three, reduced by one, divided by four: finish with flourish (6) | THRIVE | 1a | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13972 | Parisian is transfixed by international player — is in a fantasy world (8) | ESCAPIST | 4a | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13973 | I'm reduced if not losing heart, and rash (11) | IMPROVIDENT | 10a | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13974 | Reprimand avoided by learner, a poor student (3) | SAP | 11a | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13975 | Negative about eggs being recalled in avian activity (7) | NESTING | 12a | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13976 | Record I demand missing final sound (7) | LOGICAL | 14a | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13977 | Alright in earth, possibly, but able to get above it? (7-4-3) | LIGHTER-THAN-AIR | 15a | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13978 | Organic material in proper pool (radius varying) (10,4) | PRIMORDIAL SOUP | 17a | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13979 | Feeling daughter should be excluded from downgrade (7) | EMOTION | 21a | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13980 | Extended material on the radio producing clean behaviour (7) | HYGIENE | 22a | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13981 | Expression of refusal to name revolutionary (3) | NOT | 23a | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13982 | Dinosaur artist coming in second best (11) | TRICERATOPS | 24a | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13983 | Banter not good for the elderly? (8) | BADINAGE | 26a | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13984 | I may be found next to North East China? South West, actually (6) | NEPALI | 27a | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13985 | Confusion about equipment, losing good kitchen item? (8) | TRIANGLE | 1d | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13986 | Charge has you transported, not getting time (3) | RAP | 2d | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13987 | Six old items for one following score (7) | VIOLIST | 3d | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13988 | Warplane — rates the flight ‘turbulent’ (7,7) | STEALTH FIGHTER | 5d | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13989 | Inclined to withhold information, maybe, for component of medicine? (7) | ANTIGEN | 6d | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13990 | Hornet, for instance, scrambled into service (11) | INSECTIVORE | 7d | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13991 | Chief request to remove a tip (6) | TOPPLE | 8d | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13992 | It reveals the touching behaviour of a criminal (14) | FINGERPRINTING | 9d | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13993 | Wildly outraged as introduction of conscription is made acceptable (5-6) | SUGAR-COATED | 13d | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13994 | Urge King to participate in excellent social event after sport (5-3) | APRES-SKI | 16d | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13995 | Nothing in aerosol curtailed intent to dampen (7) | MOISTEN | 18d | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13996 | Traps ear: joke ending in heartache (7) | LUGGAGE | 19d | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13997 | One book introduced by famous Quaker writer (3-3) | PEN-NIB | 20d | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
13998 | Means of reproduction of various animals primarily (3) | OVA | 25d | 2016-10-17 | Times 26545 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1612576.html | times_xwd_times | |
14193 | New horse boxes are affecting old landlord | HOSTELLER | 15d | 2020-07-12 | Dean Mayer 4910 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2371031.html | times_xwd_times | |
14197 | When inverted, only </u>water could be in it</u> | TUB | 25d | 2020-07-12 | Dean Mayer 4910 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2371031.html | times_xwd_times | |
14273 | Sign made by one supporter following Liverpool's first (5) | LIBRA | 17d | 2017-08-31 | Times Quick Cryptic No 908 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1802498.html | times_xwd_times | |
14387 | Rarely any woe with Cain involved (10, four words) | ONCE IN A WAY | 2d | 2021-03-21 | Mephisto 3159 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2507989.html | times_xwd_times | |
14423 | An experience wished upon bad drug supplier? (1,5,2,4,3,8) | A TASTE OF ONES OWN MEDICINE | 46a | 2016-12-31 | Jumbo 1240 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1658965.html | times_xwd_times |
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CREATE TABLE "clues" ( rowid INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, clue TEXT, answer TEXT, definition TEXT, clue_number TEXT, puzzle_date TEXT, puzzle_name TEXT, source_url TEXT NOT NULL, source TEXT ); CREATE INDEX clues_source_index ON clues ("source");