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rowid | clue | answer ▼ | definition | clue_number | puzzle_date | puzzle_name | source_url | source |
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34086 | A double definition, the first from Latin. | SALVEa | 2019-03-30 | Times Cryptic No 27306 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.html | times_xwd_times | ||
34087 | PARCH “about” TRIA[d], “saving” the final letter. | PATRIARCHa | 2019-03-30 | Times Cryptic No 27306 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.html | times_xwd_times | ||
34088 | sounds like (“for audiobooks”) RIGHTER=more appropriate. | WRITERa | 2019-03-30 | Times Cryptic No 27306 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.html | times_xwd_times | ||
34159 | Local roughly pulls insect, quietly advancing (4) | Local roughly pulls | 1a | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34161 | Striking attire for ride (7) | ride | 10a | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34162 | Odd habit mostly for Welshman to consume cocktail (7) | cocktail | 11a | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34163 | Minor role of non-professionals one had rebuffed in month out of action? (15) | out of action | 12a | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34164 | Pipe that's often narrow (6) | that's often narrow | 13a | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34165 | Male intended taking degree course for a little money (8) | little money | 14a | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34166 | Instrument, eg, bulky to play and move finally (8) | Instrument | 17a | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34167 | Leg armour touching buckled shields (6) | Leg armour | 18a | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34168 | Stream film appeal backing European fish pickle plant (6,9) | plant | 21a | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34169 | Group ducks out of toe-to-toe meeting with other contestants at first (7) | Group | 23a | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34170 | Port's enticing East Bay oddly neglected (7) | Port's | 24a | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34171 | Herald family-run ranches? (4-2-4) | Herald | 25a | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34172 | Letters heartless literary spirit returned (4) | Letters | 26a | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34173 | Speakers loudly interrupting solicitors (7) | Speakers | 1d | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34174 | Stirred up jittery panel (5,4) | panel | 2d | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34177 | What could make you go crazy: 11 plain, grasping females (6,8) | What could make you go | 6d | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34178 | Women's greeting: each hand making quick turn (5) | quick turn | 7d | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34179 | Day without bicycle is regularly uphill struggle for Scot (7) | uphill struggle for Scot | 8d | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34180 | Disputed issue of tax, with lover once in a blue moon hiding estimate (6,8) | Disputed issue | 9d | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34182 | Original material from article the writer reversed, under severe criticism (8) | Original material | 16d | 2016-05-27 | Club Monthly 20188 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1528290.html | times_xwd_times | |
34373 | one of five odes composed by Keats in the spring of 1819, along with "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on Indolence", and "Ode to Psyche". I didn’t know it. | Apparentlya | 2019-04-13 | Times Cryptic No 27318 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2122406.html | times_xwd_times | ||
34374 | T in MERE. | METREa | 2019-04-13 | Times Cryptic No 27318 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2122406.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35568 | quibble (and why should today be different?), the RECTO definition should be “pages”, not “leaves”. Each leaf has a RECTO (right) page and a VERSO (left) page. But of course, “page” or “pages” wouldn’t fit the surface! On edit: some commentators endorse the reading that "the leaves to the right (of the book opening)" present the recto pages. Fair enough. | Toa | 2018-09-22 | Times Cryptic No 27144 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2011597.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35569 | STREET: since QUEER STREET could clue SETTER as an anagram. A quaint expression. | QUEERa | 2018-09-22 | Times Cryptic No 27144 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2011597.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35570 | “right wing” letters of [realit]Y [ar]E [no]T. | YETa | 2018-09-22 | Times Cryptic No 27144 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2011597.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35571 | QUIT inside ASH. | ASQUITHa | 2018-09-22 | Times Cryptic No 27144 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2011597.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35572 | BET: BUOY (as in “lift your spirits”) backwards, then ET (visitor from afar). | YOUa | 2018-09-22 | Times Cryptic No 27144 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2011597.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35573 | MET[ropolitan Police] from London, R[oyal] I[rish] C[onstabulary] from Dublin once. Metric units – metres, kilograms etc. | METRICa | 2018-09-22 | Times Cryptic No 27144 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2011597.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35574 | reverse (“retrospective”) hidden answer (“in part”). | LETITIAa | 2018-09-22 | Times Cryptic No 27144 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2011597.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35575 | exercise your abdominals, or just talk about sailors. | AB’Sa | 2018-09-22 | Times Cryptic No 27144 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2011597.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35576 | A, DUMB, RATION. As (dumb?) luck would have it, nearly this same clue appeared only the day before, but it’s still delightful. | ADUMBRATIONa | 2018-09-22 | Times Cryptic No 27144 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2011597.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35577 | ZER[o] (cipher, mostly), inside AI (perfect). | AZERIa | 2018-09-22 | Times Cryptic No 27144 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2011597.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35578 | (TENT WITH E*). The final E is the ultimate in [styl]E. | TWENTIETHa | 2018-09-22 | Times Cryptic No 27144 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2011597.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35605 | soon as I saw the second letter was a C, I tried fruitlessly to do something with “SCAM”! | Asa | 2017-04-08 | Times Saturday 26688 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35606 | KISS: A better than average cryptic definition. | AIRa | 2017-04-08 | Times Saturday 26688 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35607 | GI=soldier, MM=2 x masses, ICKY=revolting. No, not an anagram of masses! | GIMMICKYa | 2017-04-08 | Times Saturday 26688 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35608 | OWING=in the red. All “guarding” N=knight. Did anyone read “Red Guard” as belonging together? Nice feint, that. | OWNINGa | 2017-04-08 | Times Saturday 26688 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35609 | TH=final letters of “must wash”, UNDER=junior, PLUMP=opt for. Never heard the expression, but it’s in Chambers. | THUNDER-PLUMPa | 2017-04-08 | Times Saturday 26688 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35610 | IN “holding” CO. | ICONa | 2017-04-08 | Times Saturday 26688 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35611 | SLICE: or EGGS LICE. | EGGa | 2017-04-08 | Times Saturday 26688 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35617 | subtleties of UK vs USA may be lost on me here. Don’t the English have bathrooms too? Or perhaps the idea is, Americans say “bathroom” where the English might use “loo”? Does anyone still say “privy”? | Thed | 2017-04-08 | Times Saturday 26688 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35620 | place was totally unfamiliar, but at least the wordplay was clear. Turns out to be the capital of Azerbaijan. | Thisd | 2017-04-08 | Times Saturday 26688 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35621 | P=quietly, EP=record, TIDES=comings and goings on beach. | PEPTIDESd | 2017-04-08 | Times Saturday 26688 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35622 | PINK: KING PIN=key figure, “kept in” SHOCK=upset. | SHOCKINGd | 2017-04-08 | Times Saturday 26688 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35623 | (THE GENIE*). Lovely clue. | EIGHTEENd | 2017-04-08 | Times Saturday 26688 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html | times_xwd_times | ||
36863 | the vigorous debate last week over the pronunciation of “tortoise”, I’m going to say that as long as the suggested pronunciation is in reasonably common use, it’s fine with me. | Aftera | 2017-03-25 | Times Saturday 26676 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1708591.html | times_xwd_times | ||
36864 | HE in SIKH. Saw quickly I needed to put “he” in something, but took a while to work out what. I suspect the spelling of “sheikh” made it harder to see! | SHEIKHa | 2017-03-25 | Times Saturday 26676 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1708591.html | times_xwd_times | ||
36865 | P [pawn] RESUME [come back]. For a while I contemplated “pledgee”, as in PLEDGE=to pawn, followed by E={com}E back. It’s in Chambers, but happily it was another red herring. | PRESUMEa | 2017-03-25 | Times Saturday 26676 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1708591.html | times_xwd_times | ||
36866 | AS [chemical symbol for arsenic] P{oisoner}. | ASPa | 2017-03-25 | Times Saturday 26676 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1708591.html | times_xwd_times | ||
36867 | MO [flash] ER [queen] in NASTY [vile]. | MONASTERYa | 2017-03-25 | Times Saturday 26676 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1708591.html | times_xwd_times | ||
36868 | TENDER: LEG [“on” at cricket] then END [tip] in ALTER [reform]. | LEGALa | 2017-03-25 | Times Saturday 26676 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1708591.html | times_xwd_times | ||
36869 | (ENABLES MC*). I had some doubt about which end of this clue was the anagram indicator, and which the definition! | SEMBLANCEa | 2017-03-25 | Times Saturday 26676 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1708591.html | times_xwd_times | ||
36870 | VERB O{f}TEN. | VERBOTENa | 2017-03-25 | Times Saturday 26676 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1708591.html | times_xwd_times | ||
36872 | doubt a hint of the pejorative? Ah, why can’t they be like we were – perfect in every way! | Noa | 2017-03-25 | Times Saturday 26676 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1708591.html | times_xwd_times | ||
36873 | DO OR MAT. | DOORMATa | 2017-03-25 | Times Saturday 26676 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1708591.html | times_xwd_times | ||
36874 | JUNK [ship] ET [the canonical alien]. | JUNKETa | 2017-03-25 | Times Saturday 26676 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1708591.html | times_xwd_times | ||
37913 | clue. Navel gazing indeed! I could see only one possible answer, but only saw how it worked after I peeled the “IT” off and looked at the rest. | Lovelya | 2017-04-29 | Times Saturday 26706 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1730137.html | times_xwd_times | ||
37916 | the word, which made it hard without helpers – or even with helpers, but JALFZERI didn’t look plausible. My first thought was JALAPENO, only discouraged by its total lack of fit with the word play! Is this cuisine, or at least the name, specific to Britain? | DNKa | 2017-04-29 | Times Saturday 26706 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1730137.html | times_xwd_times | ||
37917 | DD. | PRETTYa | 2017-04-29 | Times Saturday 26706 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1730137.html | times_xwd_times | ||
37918 | baby swan (so, a small bird), sounds like SIGNET. Strangely, looking for something starting with S for small plus the crossing Y gave me the answer. | CYGNETa | 2017-04-29 | Times Saturday 26706 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1730137.html | times_xwd_times | ||
37919 | or OVERT URN. | OVERTURNa | 2017-04-29 | Times Saturday 26706 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1730137.html | times_xwd_times | ||
37920 | CAKE: (T{ast}Y A RICH BAKED*). More misdirection - how can the anagram indicator be anything other than “baked”?? | BIRTHDAYa | 2017-04-29 | Times Saturday 26706 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1730137.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39313 | ox-warble is a pesky fly that produces a swelling (of the same name) on the back of an ox. | Ana | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39316 | cuerpo" seems to be Spanish for "out of formal dress", or "without a coat" and apparently if you're English you can spell this almost any way you like. | Ena | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39321 | Dickens' Tale of Two Cities, a tricoteuse who, Fate-like, encodes in her knitting the names of people to be killed. | Ina | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39324 | relating to oxygen. | Somethinga | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39327 | old word for a maintainer or administrator of justice. Beak is of course slang for a magistrate, as in "up before the beak". | Ana | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39330 | disappoint by not keeping an engagement, i.e. to "stand someone up", in Scotland. | Toa | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39333 | salt of xanthic acid, which I hope is as yellow as it sounds. | Ad | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39336 | Scots birch. | Ad | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39339 | box or bearing for a journal; a journal being that part of a shaft or axle which is in contact with and supported by a bearing. It'll come in handy one day I'm sure. | Ad | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39342 | that is to say producing bulbils or young plants in the flower clusters. | Viviparityd | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39345 | sidepiece or post of a door. Quite a crossword when this is the least obscure word. | Thed | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39348 | an exarch, which is a Byzantine provincial governor, especially of Italy. | Ofd | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39351 | holy man or spiritual advisor in Russia, also spelt starets. | Ad | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39923 | is a semi-&lit but I'm not quite sure where the wordplay ends and the definition begins; it seems to me there must be partial but not complete overlap. | Thisa | 2018-06-15 | Times Cryptic No 27,065 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1958785.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39924 | - K [king] on LOO [throne] | LOOKa | 2018-06-15 | Times Cryptic No 27,065 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1958785.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39925 | LOUNGE - COCK and TAIL LOUNGE [bird; dog; laze]. Not an area of the New York borough of Manhattan, but an area in which one could be served a nice Manhattan. | COCKTAILa | 2018-06-15 | Times Cryptic No 27,065 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1958785.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39926 | - STAND associated with BY [viewpoint; times] | STANDBYa | 2018-06-15 | Times Cryptic No 27,065 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1958785.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39927 | - FRET about SHE [worry; woman]. "The flood of a river from heavy rain or melted snow." I know it was something watery but probably would have guessed at a babbling brook or suchlike. | flood | FRESHETa | 2018-06-15 | Times Cryptic No 27,065 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1958785.html | times_xwd_times | |
39928 | - reverse YOB [roughneck "turning"] + HOOD [criminal] | BOYHOODa | 2018-06-15 | Times Cryptic No 27,065 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1958785.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39929 | - MPS [politicians] "hiding" ERE [before], backing A{merica} | AMPERESa | 2018-06-15 | Times Cryptic No 27,065 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1958785.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39930 | GODMOTHER - (GOOD FAITH + MERRY*) ["fooling around"]. Charming not as in pleasant, but as in casting magic spells. | FAIRYa | 2018-06-15 | Times Cryptic No 27,065 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1958785.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39931 | - WIN O = win nothing = "make no gains at all" | WINOa | 2018-06-15 | Times Cryptic No 27,065 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1958785.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39932 | - HOUSE [put up], with ROUND [drinks] initially | ROUNDHOUSEa | 2018-06-15 | Times Cryptic No 27,065 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1958785.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39933 | UP - MESS [place to eat] + UP, as in up in the air, as in maybe on a plane. | MESSa | 2018-06-15 | Times Cryptic No 27,065 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1958785.html | times_xwd_times | ||
41670 | Stealthy art’s classical character cloaking trendy projects (8) | Stealthy art’s | 1a | 2016-12-30 | Club Monthly 20195 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1658870.html | times_xwd_times | |
41671 | Independence Day spurned by radical in review of thriller movie (6) | Independence | 5a | 2016-12-30 | Club Monthly 20195 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1658870.html | times_xwd_times | |
41692 | Sailor shortening uniform in euphoria’s giving emotional outbursts (12) | emotional outbursts | 11a | 2016-12-30 | Club Monthly 20195 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1658870.html | times_xwd_times | |
41783 | young doctor as in a doctor for young patients, not a recent graduate. | Aa | 2017-04-14 | Times 26,699 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1720827.html | times_xwd_times | ||
41784 | - STEELE{d} ["dock" made hard] to protect P [parking] | STEEPLEa | 2017-04-14 | Times 26,699 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1720827.html | times_xwd_times | ||
41785 | - FACT I ON [truth | I | attached to] | FACTIONa | 2017-04-14 | Times 26,699 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1720827.html | times_xwd_times | ||
41786 | - reverse of WARD [someone protected "retiring"] + L [Liberal] | DRAWLa | 2017-04-14 | Times 26,699 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1720827.html | times_xwd_times | ||
41787 | - (CITY ENDS A*) ["loose"] | SYNDICATEa | 2017-04-14 | Times 26,699 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1720827.html | times_xwd_times | ||
41788 | - COD GER{man} [fake | European "MAN's left"] | CODGERa | 2017-04-14 | Times 26,699 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1720827.html | times_xwd_times | ||
43082 | "nut" is another word for the printing "en" (that's half of an "em"). | Aa | 2019-05-16 | Times 27,353 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2141043.html | times_xwd_times | ||
43083 | COURSE - a double def of a sort. A salt being a sailor, the main being the sea: if you squint you can just about see how a "salt" would always stick to a "course" across the "main". | MAINa | 2019-05-16 | Times 27,353 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2141043.html | times_xwd_times |
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