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rowid | clue | answer | definition ▼ | clue_number | puzzle_date | puzzle_name | source_url | source |
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5176 | Press crumpled rug with energy (4) | URGE | 19d | 2017-12-07 | Times Quick Cryptic No 978 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1856269.html | times_xwd_times | |
5267 | Concerned with a foreign airline that’s brought up alcohol (4,3) | REAL ALE | 7d | 2016-09-09 | Times 26,513 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1590864.html | times_xwd_times | |
5387 | Feel so rum, distraught after end of affair — and maybe this? (10) | REMORSEFUL | 37d | 2019-05-18 | Jumbo 1380 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2142008.html | times_xwd_times | |
5402 | Michael's ascended, reportedly in confusion (3-2) | MIX | 14a | 2019-04-04 | Times 27,317 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2117600.html | times_xwd_times | |
5573 | The answer to this clue should fit the light (7) | GLAZIER | 26a | 2021-05-27 | Times 27988 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2544109.html | times_xwd_times | |
5666 | Type of union formation that makes sparks fly (3,7) | ARC WELDING | 5d | 2018-08-11 | Jumbo 1335 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1989439.html | times_xwd_times | |
5681 | Something primarily gripped to protect one (6) | SHIELD | 33d | 2018-08-11 | Jumbo 1335 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1989439.html | times_xwd_times | |
5683 | Branch operations? (4,7) | TREE SURGERY | 36d | 2018-08-11 | Jumbo 1335 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1989439.html | times_xwd_times | |
5880 | Senior man joining up after wife departs (5) | ELDER | 23a | 2019-10-07 | Times 27475 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2218905.html | times_xwd_times | |
5888 | Reminisced about Bolshevik holding English rally (11) | RECOLLECTED | 4d | 2019-10-07 | Times 27475 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2218905.html | times_xwd_times | |
5892 | Career crazily with son, guzzling new wine (8) | SANCERRE | 8d | 2019-10-07 | Times 27475 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2218905.html | times_xwd_times | |
5897 | Some reactionary tweets I’m deranged, anger clouding judgement (3,4) | RED MIST | 19d | 2019-10-07 | Times 27475 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2218905.html | times_xwd_times | |
5952 | Primate in cloak, not cold (3) | APE | 10a | 2018-11-12 | Times Quick Cryptic 1220 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2039184.html | times_xwd_times | |
5953 | Problem caused by too much reading, of course, in English school (9) | EYESTRAIN | 11a | 2018-11-12 | Times Quick Cryptic 1220 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2039184.html | times_xwd_times | |
5954 | Trust I placed in big hospital (5) | FAITH | 13a | 2018-11-12 | Times Quick Cryptic 1220 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2039184.html | times_xwd_times | |
5955 | Gem carved in relief arrived with ring (5) | CAMEO | 14a | 2018-11-12 | Times Quick Cryptic 1220 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2039184.html | times_xwd_times | |
5995 | Those people pinch gold? That’s the hypothesis (6) | THEORY | 17d | 2017-09-06 | Quick Cryptic 912 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1805712.html | times_xwd_times | |
6052 | Pine ridge that obscures sea view (4) | FRET | 9a | 2017-08-05 | Times Saturday 26790 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1788378.html | times_xwd_times | |
6216 | One of two books, very serious, written by the French (10) | CHRONICLES | 20a | 2018-06-19 | Times Cryptic 27068 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1961104.html | times_xwd_times | |
6648 | Provider of printed notes for performers (5,5) | SHEET MUSIC | 26a | 2018-04-20 | Times 27,017 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1928698.html | times_xwd_times | |
6891 | Grumble, not wanting loud buzzer (3) | BEE | 4d | 2016-01-27 | Quick Cryptic 492 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1458610.html | times_xwd_times | |
6892 | Gets rid of examiner, test being botched (12) | EXTERMINATES | 5d | 2016-01-27 | Quick Cryptic 492 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1458610.html | times_xwd_times | |
6893 | Pay no attention to lamb left over from roast? (4-8) | COLD SHOULDER | 6d | 2016-01-27 | Quick Cryptic 492 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1458610.html | times_xwd_times | |
7055 | Oh, for tale of adventure on high seas! (8,2) | WESTWARD HO | 20a | 2019-02-06 | Times 27267 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2086061.html | times_xwd_times | |
7060 | Daughter, in splitting huge cost, pays thus? (4,5) | GOES DUTCH | 28a | 2019-02-06 | Times 27267 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2086061.html | times_xwd_times | |
7076 | Public rights guardian bans one Parisian race (5) | TRIBE | 24d | 2019-02-06 | Times 27267 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2086061.html | times_xwd_times | |
7110 | Fine breaking piece of crockery for savage (8) | FIENDISH | 15d | 2020-04-24 | Times Quick Cryptic No 1599 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2326540.html | times_xwd_times | |
7185 | Passage blocked off at far end? I’m annoyed! (4) | CHUT | 6d | 2021-05-09 | Mephisto 3166 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2533553.html | times_xwd_times | |
7206 | Work unit coming to no harm potentially without uniform (3-4) | MAN-HOUR | 19a | 2019-03-27 | Times 27309 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2112267.html | times_xwd_times | |
7220 | Area of the church: one Cranmer reformed (4,6) | AMEN CORNER | 13d | 2019-03-27 | Times 27309 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2112267.html | times_xwd_times | |
7249 | In which you'll find this range of mountains? (5) | ATLAS | 17d | 2015-08-03 | Quick Cryptic 365 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1358637.html | times_xwd_times | |
7344 | Producer of alcohol surprisingly not sold as miniatures? (12) | MICROBREWERY | 14a | 2017-08-26 | Times Saturday 26808 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1799802.html | times_xwd_times | |
7371 | a poem | writinga | 2014-08-29 | Club Monthly 20167 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html | times_xwd_times | ||
7372 | very diffic | isa | 2014-08-29 | Club Monthly 20167 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html | times_xwd_times | ||
7373 | - S(mall) + AGITTATE, worry with a "double nucleus" | sagittatea | 2014-08-29 | Club Monthly 20167 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html | times_xwd_times | ||
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 | dieffenbachiasa | 2014-08-29 | Club Monthly 20167 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html | times_xwd_times | ||
7375 | - RH + Y (unknown, not x or z) + PA (aide) + RAP (strike) and H(ours) in ROGER (understood). | rhyparographera | 2014-08-29 | Club Monthly 20167 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html | times_xwd_times | ||
7376 | - IMP (terror, eg my grandson) + ROMP (spree) + ( AU )TU(MN) | impromptua | 2014-08-29 | Club Monthly 20167 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html | times_xwd_times | ||
7377 | - hmm, I think this is CLEAN (without difficulties) "cycled" into ANCLE. Not a device I recall seeing before | anclea | 2014-08-29 | Club Monthly 20167 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html | times_xwd_times | ||
7378 | - HC + T(HAT) + UK, all rev. | kutcha | 2014-08-29 | Club Monthly 20167 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html | times_xwd_times | ||
7379 | - E(nglish) and OZ, rev. in BARDIC (related to lyricists). Nice surface! | bezoardica | 2014-08-29 | Club Monthly 20167 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html | times_xwd_times | ||
7380 | - R(un) + *(RESORT) | rortersa | 2014-08-29 | Club Monthly 20167 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html | times_xwd_times | ||
7381 | - EP + ER (queen) + DUE (expected) | D | eperduea | 2014-08-29 | Club Monthly 20167 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html | times_xwd_times | |
7392 | See someone gathering stuff on ground that covers Channel Islands up? (8) | 16a | 2014-08-29 | Club Monthly 20167 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html | times_xwd_times | ||
7408 | Strangeness, and another with it being taken out of the earth (5) | SODDY | 23a | 2020-08-02 | Mephisto 3126 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2383892.html | times_xwd_times | |
7417 | Blocking response in the matter of stringent sewer’s product (11, two words) | BIAS BINDING | 2d | 2020-08-02 | Mephisto 3126 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2383892.html | times_xwd_times | |
7422 | No longer flush dead fish (4) | RUDD | 7d | 2020-08-02 | Mephisto 3126 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2383892.html | times_xwd_times | |
7425 | Love poem being reinterpreted in a mass transit provision (11, two words) | PEOPLE MOVER | 11d | 2020-08-02 | Mephisto 3126 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2383892.html | times_xwd_times | |
7497 | With little love, they learn to adapt in empty lives? | LONELY HEARTS | 17a | 2015-03-20 | Saturday Times 26046 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1286101.html | times_xwd_times | |
7498 | Move staff in periods of good fortune (2,6). | UP STICKS | 20a | 2015-03-20 | Saturday Times 26046 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1286101.html | times_xwd_times | |
7504 | Flying, Amy died, alas - after sending this? (6) | MAYDAY | 2d | 2015-03-20 | Saturday Times 26046 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1286101.html | times_xwd_times | |
7511 | What, cobbled, might be used for a car. (4,7) | ROAD SURFACE | 13d | 2015-03-20 | Saturday Times 26046 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1286101.html | times_xwd_times | |
7534 | Evaporation of fluid and ice containing thick juice and fruit (13) | DISAPPEARANCE | 5d | 2015-05-20 | Quick Cryptic No 312 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1318073.html | times_xwd_times | |
7535 | Public land lacking refinement (6) | COMMON - DD | 6d | 2015-05-20 | Quick Cryptic No 312 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1318073.html | times_xwd_times | |
7536 | Female children's author means to spend time in aimless activities (6) | POTTER | 7d | 2015-05-20 | Quick Cryptic No 312 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1318073.html | times_xwd_times | |
7537 | Mostly provide financial cover for decent chap and rebel (9) | INSURGENT | 9d | 2015-05-20 | Quick Cryptic No 312 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1318073.html | times_xwd_times | |
7538 | Rascal to rip off page (5) | SCAMP | 12d | 2015-05-20 | Quick Cryptic No 312 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1318073.html | times_xwd_times | |
8025 | Giant, one meeting a fairy queen (7) | TITANIA | 6d | 2019-07-01 | Times 27391 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2165082.html | times_xwd_times | |
8026 | In action it resembles saltpetre (5) | NITRE | 7d | 2019-07-01 | Times 27391 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2165082.html | times_xwd_times | |
8031 | Stuffy, like follicularly challenged Cockneys? (7) | AIRLESS | 18d | 2019-07-01 | Times 27391 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2165082.html | times_xwd_times | |
8157 | It’s measured along a meridian, in the main (8,4) | NAUTICAL MILE | 14a | 2020-09-03 | Times 27760 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2400568.html | times_xwd_times | |
8291 | Brief message backing TV fundraiser Henry’s left (7) | NOTELET | 9a | 2019-03-25 | Times 27307 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2110730.html | times_xwd_times | |
8293 | Temporary pianos evenly sited round old university (3-2) | POP-UP | 12a | 2019-03-25 | Times 27307 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2110730.html | times_xwd_times | |
8316 | Buff coach horse every so often (5) | OCHRE | 22d | 2019-03-25 | Times 27307 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2110730.html | times_xwd_times | |
8318 | Remarkable as Odyssey evidently is? (3-8) | EYE-CATCHING | 3d | 2020-03-23 | Times 27619 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2309472.html | times_xwd_times | |
8329 | Ton pig eats new leather strip (5) | THONG | 22d | 2020-03-23 | Times 27619 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2309472.html | times_xwd_times | |
8330 | Caustic liquid left, yet unfinished (3) | LYE | 24d | 2020-03-23 | Times 27619 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2309472.html | times_xwd_times | |
8556 | A meaty firework? (6) | BANGER | 17a | 2015-06-10 | Quick Cryptic Number 327 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1329896.html | times_xwd_times | |
8586 | Instruction for nose job, perhaps, that requires two pairs of hands (8,6) | CONTRACT BRIDGE | 24a | 2017-04-22 | Times Saturday 26700 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1725548.html | times_xwd_times | |
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. | DNKa | 2017-04-22 | Times Saturday 26700 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1725548.html | times_xwd_times | ||
8589 | IT: PI [the mathematical constant] “punctures” HOT. | D | HOPa | 2017-04-22 | Times Saturday 26700 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1725548.html | times_xwd_times | |
8800 | Yesterday’s meanings of “present” | HERE AND NOW | 8a | 2018-04-22 | Sunday Times 4794 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1929624.html | times_xwd_times | |
8963 | The Leninist managed to capture city and country (13) | LIECHTENSTEIN | 14a | 2018-01-30 | Times Cryptic 26948 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1886705.html | times_xwd_times | |
9011 | Infamous old port protected by other people? (9) | NOTORIOUS | 9a | 2020-07-26 | Times 27727 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2379837.html | times_xwd_times | |
9601 | Moaning about tramp’s musical skill (5-7) | SIGHT READING | 6d | 2016-10-02 | Sunday Times 4713 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1603569.html | times_xwd_times | |
9815 | Forest dweller turning elephantine head around (6) | GIBBON | 21d | 2021-05-31 | Times 27991 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2547051.html | times_xwd_times | |
9816 | Republican admitted to charge, a provocateur (5) | TROLL | 23d | 2021-05-31 | Times 27991 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2547051.html | times_xwd_times | |
9866 | British species of tree — little ones (6) | BABIES | 33d | 2018-09-22 | Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1342 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2011717.html | times_xwd_times | |
9882 | Lady’s loose gown unsettling to boyfriend (3) | MAN | 15a | 2021-04-25 | Mephisto 3164 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2526379.html | times_xwd_times | |
9893 | Record again with one feeling regret piano’s missing (7) | REENTER | 31a | 2021-04-25 | Mephisto 3164 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2526379.html | times_xwd_times | |
9896 | Fish from historic Scottish bar close to Dundee (4) | GADE | 2d | 2021-04-25 | Mephisto 3164 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2526379.html | times_xwd_times | |
9944 | Long twelvemonth at end of campaign (5) | YEARN | 9a | 2018-03-01 | Times Quick Cryptic No 1038 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1902289.html | times_xwd_times | |
10085 | Great construction that is invisible (7,4) | CHINESE WALL | 21a | 2017-09-02 | Jumbo 1280 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1803989.html | times_xwd_times | |
10086 | What’s needed for one being sick on the way? (9) | STRETCHER | 24a | 2017-09-02 | Jumbo 1280 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1803989.html | times_xwd_times | |
10263 | Reprobate objecting to acting (12) | REPRESENTING | 6d | 2019-04-07 | Mephisto 3057 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2118559.html | times_xwd_times | |
10554 | Once he started his act there was no holding him (7) | HOUDINI | 6d | 2020-04-16 | Times 27640 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2322594.html | times_xwd_times | |
10557 | Message carrier with a lofty target (6,6) | HOMING PIGEON | 11d | 2020-04-16 | Times 27640 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2322594.html | times_xwd_times | |
10608 | Theatrical set, scary in play (8) | ACTRESSY | 28a | 2019-01-09 | Times 27243 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2070906.html | times_xwd_times | |
10767 | English knight king (a new king) put in position as before (6) | ENRANK | 24d | 2021-03-28 | Mephisto 3160 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2511423.html | times_xwd_times | |
10891 | there's one thing that I like | I | Ifa | 2019-06-08 | Times Cryptic No 27366 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2153206.html | times_xwd_times | |
10892 | burn up wiv a bird up on my bike | N | Aa | 2019-06-08 | Times Cryptic No 27366 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2153206.html | times_xwd_times | |
10893 | you try and do a ton | A | Tilla | 2019-06-08 | Times Cryptic No 27366 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2153206.html | times_xwd_times | |
10935 | Result of severing London borough’s traffic artery? (10,4) | K | 9d | 2014-06-11 | Times Crossword June 11 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1129203.html | times_xwd_times | |
11018 | Small buzzer in an envied position? (3,2,3,4) | FLY ON THE WALL | 7d | 2015-12-07 | Quick Cryptic 455 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1430044.html | times_xwd_times | |
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. | Ia | 2018-11-24 | Times Cryptic No 27198 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2045072.html | times_xwd_times | ||
11038 | PAY (foot, the bill for example) around (about) ISLE (an inch). | PAISLEYa | 2018-11-24 | Times Cryptic No 27198 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2045072.html | times_xwd_times | ||
11039 | AS (when) following M (mass) and X (times), the last two letters reversed (reflecting). | XMASa | 2018-11-24 | Times Cryptic No 27198 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2045072.html | times_xwd_times | ||
11040 | (AD TORN OPEN*). | D | PTERANODONa | 2018-11-24 | Times Cryptic No 27198 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2045072.html | times_xwd_times | |
11166 | There’s still one monster | YETI | 23d | 2018-05-06 | Sunday Times 4796 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1937102.html | times_xwd_times | |
11214 | afterpiece is a short dramatic entertainment performed after the principal play. | Ana | 2019-11-21 | Times 27,515 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2243399.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");