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rowid | clue | answer ▼ | definition | clue_number | puzzle_date | puzzle_name | source_url | source |
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43084 | - I.D. [pin number maybe] "in" A and E. First one in. | AIDEa | 2019-05-16 | Times 27,353 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2141043.html | times_xwd_times | ||
43085 | - or alternatively punctuated, t'bar, where a Yorkshireman might go for his pint. | T-BARa | 2019-05-16 | Times 27,353 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2141043.html | times_xwd_times | ||
43102 | to those who corrected my cold-ridden misapprehension of the parsing here! | Thanksd | 2019-05-16 | Times 27,353 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2141043.html | times_xwd_times | ||
43103 | - OR + CHEST RATE [bust | judge] | ORCHESTRATEd | 2019-05-16 | Times 27,353 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2141043.html | times_xwd_times | ||
43104 | - POE{try} [lyrical work, "lacking TRY (= effort)"] | POEd | 2019-05-16 | Times 27,353 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2141043.html | times_xwd_times | ||
43674 | "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of that speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar. Act III, scene II. | Wikipediad | 2017-03-18 | Times Saturday 26670 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1704508.html | times_xwd_times | ||
43675 | DIAMOND: rough = hoodlum, one in a suit = diamond in this case. | ROUGHd | 2017-03-18 | Times Saturday 26670 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1704508.html | times_xwd_times | ||
43676 | MESSAGE: OFF MESS [disliking untidiness] AGE [grow up]. | OFFd | 2017-03-18 | Times Saturday 26670 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1704508.html | times_xwd_times | ||
43767 | weighting as in "an allowance or adjustment made in order to take account of special circumstances or compensate for a distorting factor" | Aa | 2016-09-30 | Times 26,531 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1602575.html | times_xwd_times | ||
43768 | - PATHOS [sympathy] "suppressing" GEN [information] | PATHOGENSa | 2016-09-30 | Times 26,531 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1602575.html | times_xwd_times | ||
43769 | - hidden in {fantasti}C ON GA{la} | CONGAa | 2016-09-30 | Times 26,531 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1602575.html | times_xwd_times | ||
43770 | - DULL [gloomy] "about" ERR reversed [sin "in retrospect"] | DURRELLa | 2016-09-30 | Times 26,531 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1602575.html | times_xwd_times | ||
43952 | Syringe applied to unpleasant growth on the bottom (9) | growth on the bottom | 1a | 2017-05-26 | Club Monthly 20200 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1746373.html | times_xwd_times | |
43953 | Blast from Frenchman after old woman remains in distillery (5) | remains in distillery | 6a | 2017-05-26 | Club Monthly 20200 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1746373.html | times_xwd_times | |
43954 | Point well away from satellite rigged up alone (7) | Point well away from satellite | 9a | 2017-05-26 | Club Monthly 20200 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1746373.html | times_xwd_times | |
43955 | Engine-driver’s deep sleep breaking endless hunger (7) | Engine-driver’s | 10a | 2017-05-26 | Club Monthly 20200 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1746373.html | times_xwd_times | |
43956 | How slow should you march at the back? (3) | How slow | 11a | 2017-05-26 | Club Monthly 20200 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1746373.html | times_xwd_times | |
43957 | Compound having better reduced part to perform earlier in the day (11) | Compound | 12a | 2017-05-26 | Club Monthly 20200 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1746373.html | times_xwd_times | |
43958 | Reportedly elevated member’s spheres of influence (6) | spheres of influence | 14a | 2017-05-26 | Club Monthly 20200 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1746373.html | times_xwd_times | |
43959 | Form of servitude, left for days in active retirement? (8) | 15a | 2017-05-26 | Club Monthly 20200 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1746373.html | times_xwd_times | ||
43960 | Rushing disastrously into reflective Tavener adagio (8) | Rushing disastrously into | 17a | 2017-05-26 | Club Monthly 20200 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1746373.html | times_xwd_times | |
43961 | Loud buzzers made of beryllium alloy, black inside (6) | Loud buzzers | 19a | 2017-05-26 | Club Monthly 20200 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1746373.html | times_xwd_times | |
43962 | Ultimately vast scope of tax changes applying retrospectively (2,4,5) | applying retrospectively | 22a | 2017-05-26 | Club Monthly 20200 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1746373.html | times_xwd_times | |
43963 | China to Glamorgan, Washington state to California? (3) | China to Glamorgan | 23a | 2017-05-26 | Club Monthly 20200 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1746373.html | times_xwd_times | |
43964 | Writer, excellent producer of material for alternative soap (7) | material for alternative soap | 25a | 2017-05-26 | Club Monthly 20200 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1746373.html | times_xwd_times | |
43965 | Emoji of lynx I try, now and again, to represent legendary striker (7) | legendary striker | 27a | 2017-05-26 | Club Monthly 20200 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1746373.html | times_xwd_times | |
45783 | sure the Neva in NW Russia comes up very often outside of crosswords, but it seems to be above averagely useful in them. | Nota | 2018-06-02 | Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1324 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1954265.html | times_xwd_times | ||
45784 | - (STRIVE*) ["to be trained"] + OR [if not] | SERVITORa | 2018-06-02 | Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1324 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1954265.html | times_xwd_times | ||
45785 | - {w}AGES [labour's gains, "initially dismissed" i.e. losing their first letter] | AGESa | 2018-06-02 | Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1324 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1954265.html | times_xwd_times | ||
45786 | - GRAD{e} ["docked" mark] + UN DER [an indefinite and definite article, translated into French and German respectively] | UNDERGRADa | 2018-06-02 | Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1324 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1954265.html | times_xwd_times | ||
45787 | BLUE - NIL [nothing] + {pal}E + BLUE [gloomy] | NILEa | 2018-06-02 | Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1324 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1954265.html | times_xwd_times | ||
45788 | - G UTTER [good | say] to be beside SNIPE [fire (gun from distance)] | GUTTERSNIPEa | 2018-06-02 | Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1324 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1954265.html | times_xwd_times | ||
45789 | - R [right], covered in HEAT BEAT [warm | batter] | HEARTBEATa | 2018-06-02 | Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1324 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1954265.html | times_xwd_times | ||
45790 | - THEN [subsequently] seen in ASIA [eastern lands] | ASTHENIAa | 2018-06-02 | Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1324 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1954265.html | times_xwd_times | ||
45791 | - even letters in {g}O{l}D {d}I{s}C{s} | ODICa | 2018-06-02 | Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1324 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1954265.html | times_xwd_times | ||
48202 | here actually read Benjamin Disraeli's Coningsby? And I was pleased to be still mostly au fait with Dickens... | Anyonea | 2019-09-30 | Monthly Club Special 20,228 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2215364.html | times_xwd_times | ||
48203 | - a SIGNER-ON is a dole recipient; replace the first letter with V [five] | VIGNERONa | 2019-09-30 | Monthly Club Special 20,228 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2215364.html | times_xwd_times | ||
48204 | - FOO{t} in {t}U{n}N{e}L | UNFOOLa | 2019-09-30 | Monthly Club Special 20,228 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2215364.html | times_xwd_times | ||
48208 | Shakespearean rendering of "empiricutic" = empiric. Whew! | Aa | 2019-09-30 | Monthly Club Special 20,228 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2215364.html | times_xwd_times | ||
48209 | - A L [a | Liberal] + reversed IOM GALA [Peel's celebration perhaps]. Peel being a Manx town you know. | ALALAGMOIa | 2019-09-30 | Monthly Club Special 20,228 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2215364.html | times_xwd_times | ||
48210 | - CHI{nt}Z [material, minus NT = books] + Z [unknown] | CHIZZa | 2019-09-30 | Monthly Club Special 20,228 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2215364.html | times_xwd_times | ||
48211 | - reversed HE [chap] that's "apprehended" CON [prisoner]. Enoch son of Cain, nothing to do with Powell. | ENOCHa | 2019-09-30 | Monthly Club Special 20,228 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2215364.html | times_xwd_times | ||
50978 | Plantagenet King is any of Edward I, II, or III; I'm not 100% sure that any of them were ever referred to familiarly as "Ted". | Thea | 2018-07-06 | Times Cryptic 27,083 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1970809.html | times_xwd_times | ||
50981 | like myself (hem hem) only know this use of "wig" to mean "berate" from the Times crossword. | Youngstersa | 2018-07-06 | Times Cryptic 27,083 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1970809.html | times_xwd_times | ||
50982 | - PRO getting in REACH [for; contact] | REPROACHa | 2018-07-06 | Times Cryptic 27,083 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1970809.html | times_xwd_times | ||
50983 | - SHREK catches I [green ogre; one]. Referring to the first ever winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2001, and its eponymous green uglihero. | SHRIEKa | 2018-07-06 | Times Cryptic 27,083 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1970809.html | times_xwd_times | ||
50984 | - No GEN on HALOGEN [information; fluorine, perhaps] | HALOa | 2018-07-06 | Times Cryptic 27,083 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1970809.html | times_xwd_times | ||
50985 | - NATION keeping OT [people; books] | NOTATIONa | 2018-07-06 | Times Cryptic 27,083 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1970809.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51579 | of this name. | wifea | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51580 | - KINK + A + JO + U[ncovered] | KINKAJOUa | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51581 | - H (house) + E and B [musical keys] in PE | PHOEBEa | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51582 | - SUB reversed in ROT | ROBUSTa | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51583 | - OP + SIDE in LD (lord) | LOPSIDEDa | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51584 | GOODMAN - [spendin]G + MONEY ON BAND* (anagram) | BENNYa | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51585 | - A + M + BASS + A + DRESS (shift) | AMBASSADRESSa | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51586 | - ON RAVEL G* (good) | LAVENGROa | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51587 | - UR + H in DAM | DURHAMa | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51588 | - a sort of tongue-in-cheek extended definitional thingy, with an allusion to buffing up the | BUFFERa | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51590 | in WEARY | performinga | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51591 | - HEAT (passion) + HER (a woman) + Y (unknown); Erica may be heather to some, but to me she | HEATHERYa | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51592 | in our family when the lady in question took up with a wealthy Hampshire landowner who | interestinga | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51593 | more pertinently, Christian name. For days people kept coming up to Dad, saying, 'Bill, we never | anda | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51609 | a similar division. The word, which is archaic, is of Old English date and has an exact correspondent | ord | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51610 | in the composition of his 132-verse nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark, beginning | gravityd | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51618 | Sketch libertine undressed (7) | Sketch | 17a | 2021-05-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,247 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2530805.html | times_xwd_times | |
51663 | Ops (for Greece) appended to journal otherwise showing verbal incontinence (9) | verbal incontinence | 1a | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51664 | Almost tight-lipped about fruit available in winter (5) | fruit available in winter | 6a | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51665 | Single plant removing jack from aircraft engine (5) | Single plant | 9a | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51666 | Lurking giant with frilly clothing (9) | Lurking | 10a | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51667 | Expelling English, following through to perform ceilidh music (7) | ceilidh music | 11a | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51668 | Back half of slimy northern bog in which one goes fermenting (7) | fermenting | 12a | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51669 | Phlox-related tree planted among prepared taro by company boss in Australia (14) | Phlox-related | 13a | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51670 | Discovered Marseillaise and moods in Morningside mashup? (14) | Morningside mashup | 17a | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51672 | Traveller made a tour of island before retiring (7) | Traveller | 23a | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51673 | Commendation for everyone sharing first helping of Eton mess (9) | mess | 25a | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51675 | East London rascal shook hollow tree (5) | East London rascal | 27a | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51676 | Hothead to be just visible across very soft hedge bush (9) | Hothead | 28a | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51677 | Old coot, 52, smoker, to entertain Romeo (8) | Old coot | 1d | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51678 | Stop insulting ambassador’s hosts (5) | Stop | 2d | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51680 | Caught giving way to large, carefree lout (7) | lout | 4d | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51681 | Arizona, then some old Northern Isles, leaving North Dakota to climb height in Italy (7) | height in Italy | 5d | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51682 | Pre-flight brief in the afternoon only? (5) | Pre-flight brief | 6d | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51683 | Set up leader for military routines to support line with wartime levy (9) | wartime levy | 7d | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51684 | The Bard’s lofty play’s ending with runner around, not a word (6) | The Bard’s lofty | 8d | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51685 | Noble cause scuppered when knight leaves compound for change of colours (5,4) | compound for change of colours | 14d | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51686 | Snake poison drug criticised before the watershed? (9) | Snake poison | 15d | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51688 | Pack down under being in print? (7) | 18d | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | ||
51689 | The woman mostly seen in Somerset hills, out of bounds for ancient village (7) | ancient village | 19d | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51690 | Love feasts? Answer is opening wide! (6) | Love feasts | 20d | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51691 | Selecting odd bits from 7, I should replace the first, to put it briefly (2,3) | to put it briefly | 22d | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
51692 | Scale, one with no sharp or flat extension (5) | Scale, | 24d | 2017-04-28 | Club Monthly 20199 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1729051.html | times_xwd_times | |
52330 | Some backward Neanderthal biker that's turned to praying (6) | praying | 1a | 2014-09-26 | Club Monthly 20168 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1187746.html | times_xwd_times | |
52331 | Spartan character, coldness, about old, old Jack: what Daisy would give for a laugh! (3-5) | Daisy would give | 4a | 2014-09-26 | Club Monthly 20168 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1187746.html | times_xwd_times | |
52332 | Prayer books from church in Hampton Court feature briefly round border (9) | Prayer books | 10a | 2014-09-26 | Club Monthly 20168 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1187746.html | times_xwd_times | |
52333 | Passable firm's turned around, becoming first rate (5) | first rate | 11a | 2014-09-26 | Club Monthly 20168 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1187746.html | times_xwd_times | |
52334 | Peanuts from US or China drop in copper plate finally (5,6) | Peanuts from US | 12a | 2014-09-26 | Club Monthly 20168 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1187746.html | times_xwd_times | |
52335 | Off and on, yacht is bringing tuna (3) | tuna | 14a | 2014-09-26 | Club Monthly 20168 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1187746.html | times_xwd_times | |
54576 | to construct this unknown name from the cryptic, but it seems like a fair clue... given that he penned the script for a movie everyone's heard of, King Kong! | Hada | 2019-07-25 | Times 27,413 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2178641.html | times_xwd_times | ||
54577 | - "Flay" {p}ASSED O{n} [died], then reverse it | ODESSAa | 2019-07-25 | Times 27,413 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2178641.html | times_xwd_times | ||
54578 | - reversed BONNE [housemaid] + L.E.D. [light] | ENNOBLEDa | 2019-07-25 | Times 27,413 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2178641.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");