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rowid | clue | answer | definition | clue_number ▲ | puzzle_date | puzzle_name | source_url | source |
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271270 | Plates broken in a meal (7) | LAMINAE: | L | 2013-08-31 | Guardian Prize Puzzle 26035 by Maskarade Late Summer Prize Cryptic Crossword | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/08/31/guardian-prize-puzzle-26035-by-maskarade-late-summer-prize-cryptic-crossword/ | fifteensquared | |
596047 | Top-grade, unsurpassed, having skill, conclusively (6) | ABLEST | L | Acrostic | cru-cryptics/Cryptic225.pdf | cru_cryptics | ||
596070 | Lunatic then restricted by one put in a high chair? (8) | ENTHRONE | L | Settling Accounts | cru-cryptics/Cryptic235.pdf | cru_cryptics | ||
28908 | - ALE WK [beer | week], the whole "recalled" | KWELAa | 2018-05-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,211 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1935023.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 | ||
28529 | KEEN [lament] NES [= SEN reversed] S{showing}. | KEENNESSa | 2017-04-01 | Times Saturday 26682 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html | times_xwd_times | ||
28905 | - ({w}ORK HAS*) ["ruined"] + I [one], semi-&lit | KAROSHIa | 2018-05-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,211 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1935023.html | times_xwd_times | ||
160236 | Did he have basic plan to execute? | KETCH | K | 2017-11-11 | Guardian Prize 27346 Paul | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2017/11/11/guardian-prize-27346-paul/ | fifteensquared | |
203187 | Uplifting piece about human spirit somewhere in Eastern Europe (6) | KRAKOW | somewhere in Eastern Europe | K | 2016-11-12 | Guardian Prize 27034 Puck | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2016/11/12/guardian-prize-27034-puck/ | fifteensquared |
215744 | Ruminant has successful move to make, reportedly? (4) | KUDU | Ruminant | K | 2017-06-24 | Guardian Prize 27226 Paul | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2017/06/24/guardian-prize-27226-paul/ | fifteensquared |
234322 | Difficult as A, not E, in Liverpool (6) | KNOTTY | Difficult/Difficult | K | 2015-07-25 | Guardian Prize 26627 Puck | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2015/07/25/guardian-prize-26627-puck/ | fifteensquared |
271269 | Branagh cut (6) | KENNET: | K | 2013-08-31 | Guardian Prize Puzzle 26035 by Maskarade Late Summer Prize Cryptic Crossword | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/08/31/guardian-prize-puzzle-26035-by-maskarade-late-summer-prize-cryptic-crossword/ | fifteensquared | |
596021 | Holy writings of uncentered Asians (6) | KORANS | K | That's How Easy Love Can Be **** | cru-cryptics/Cryptic196.pdf | cru_cryptics | ||
596046 | Confuses perverted dirtiness with love (10) | DISORIENTS | K | Acrostic | cru-cryptics/Cryptic225.pdf | cru_cryptics | ||
596069 | Body deployed to overwhelm once unbroken German hussars' fronts? (8) | DOUGHBOY | K | Settling Accounts | cru-cryptics/Cryptic235.pdf | cru_cryptics | ||
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 | ||
28630 | - RIDER [addition], needing JOY [transport] first | JOYRIDERa | 2016-10-28 | Times 26,555 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.html | times_xwd_times | ||
28634 | - homophone of JACK [sailor "in speech"] + 0 BITE [zero | effect] | JACOBITEa | 2016-10-28 | Times 26,555 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.html | times_xwd_times | ||
160235 | Scrap metal finally has filled jar (4) | JOLT | jar | J | 2017-11-11 | Guardian Prize 27346 Paul | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2017/11/11/guardian-prize-27346-paul/ | fifteensquared |
203186 | Little woman’s hot joke (4) | JOSH | joke | J | 2016-11-12 | Guardian Prize 27034 Puck | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2016/11/12/guardian-prize-27034-puck/ | fifteensquared |
215743 | Nut in kind of ancient religion terrorising Frenchman? (7) | JACOBIN | terrorising Frenchman | J | 2017-06-24 | Guardian Prize 27226 Paul | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2017/06/24/guardian-prize-27226-paul/ | fifteensquared |
234321 | Endless task, getting drink for punchbowl? (5) | JORUM | punchbowl/punchbowl | J | 2015-07-25 | Guardian Prize 26627 Puck | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2015/07/25/guardian-prize-26627-puck/ | fifteensquared |
271268 | Katie Price or basketball star (6) | JORDAN: | J | 2013-08-31 | Guardian Prize Puzzle 26035 by Maskarade Late Summer Prize Cryptic Crossword | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/08/31/guardian-prize-puzzle-26035-by-maskarade-late-summer-prize-cryptic-crossword/ | fifteensquared | |
596020 | Quarantining sick after first sign of jaundice (7) | JAILING | J | That's How Easy Love Can Be **** | cru-cryptics/Cryptic196.pdf | cru_cryptics | ||
596045 | Red deer protects injured antler in the boondocks (10) | HINTERLAND | J | Acrostic | cru-cryptics/Cryptic225.pdf | cru_cryptics | ||
596068 | They come out for a five-time presidential candidate (4) | DEBS | J | Settling Accounts | cru-cryptics/Cryptic235.pdf | cru_cryptics | ||
657213 | got 16d, 18a and 25a on my podium, good fun to solve | Q | I’ved | 2023-01-27 | Daily Telegraph 30208 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/01/27/dt-30196-2-2/ | bigdave44 | |
659800 | never used this great old band in my blog before so no excuses for not using them now. | I | I’ved | 2023-06-15 | Daily Telegraph No 30327 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/15/173502/ | bigdave44 | |
644742 | not even going to attempt to pick a favourite – there are just too many deserving contenders. | Q | I’md | 2022-11-14 | Daily Telegraph 30144 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/11/14/dt-30144/ | bigdave44 | |
658301 | afraid no clue really stood out for me today. Did you have a favourite? | Q | I’md | 2023-04-10 | Daily Telegraph 30270 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/04/10/dt-30270/ | bigdave44 | |
641260 | award top honours today to 18d. What was your favourite clue? | Q | I’lld | 2022-09-12 | Daily Telegraph 30090 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/09/12/dt-30090/ | bigdave44 | |
662841 | pick 13d as my favourite today. I might have gone with 20d, but there is either an error in it or it is so clever that it has gone over my head. | Q | I’lld | 2023-03-13 | Daily Telegraph 30246 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/13/30246/ | bigdave44 | |
644035 | took us a little while to sort out the 16a anagram so will make that today’s tasty favourite. | Q | Itd | 2022-11-16 | Daily Telegraph 30146 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/11/16/dt-30146/ | bigdave44 | |
644065 | seems almost a slight to many other fine clues in this puzzle to single one out but I will name 27a as my favourite clue today. | Q | Itd | 2022-11-28 | Daily Telegraph 30156 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/11/28/dt-30156/ | bigdave44 | |
34075 | took a lot of time looking at C---T- to come up with COMITY as an option, and more time to decide whether I knew what the word actually meant. | Ita | 2019-03-30 | Times Cryptic No 27306 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.html | times_xwd_times | ||
659301 | is good to see Hopping Rhino continuing to improve. There were a couple of clues that I thought were a little overambitious but the difficulty level has been toned down and there were fewer technical errors. The commentometer reads as 2/30 or 6.7%. | A | It | 2023-05-01 | Rookie Corner 473 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/05/01/rookie-corner-473/ | bigdave44 | |
661610 | took me a while to get going but the very helpful Down clues helped me finish in about my usual time for a Saturday Prize Puzzle | P | It | 2023-03-10 | Daily Telegraph 30239 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/10/dt-30239-full-review/ | bigdave44 | |
189425 | ship | SQUARE-RIGGER | ship | Iraq surge used German | 2017-12-22 | Financial Times 15739 Julius | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2017/12/22/financial-times-15739-julius/ | fifteensquared |
639103 | facilities for sourcing drivers? (6,7) | SEARCH ENGINES | Internetd | 2014-10-01 | Daily Telegraph 27609 | http://bigdave44.com/2014/10/01/dt-27609/ | bigdave44 | |
64170 | the Philippines they have lovely screens to protect you from the glare. | I | Ind | 2018-05-05 | Times Cryptic No 27024 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1936726.html | times_xwd_times | |
640862 | a strong field 20a takes the honours for me today with 24a&3d making up the podium. Which ones did you like?? | T | in | Ind | 2022-07-21 | Daily Telegraph 30045 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/07/21/dt-30045/ | bigdave44 |
657816 | lieu of picking a favourite today, I will spotlight 11a for its soupcon of historical accuracy. While there is no reason why clues should be accurate in a historical, geographic, or any other sense, I am always intrigued when they are. The novel in 11a was, in fact, published by Longmans but I suspect it was the second H. Rider Haggard novel to be published by that firm (the first likely being Allan Quatermain). | Q | Ind | 2023-02-13 | Daily Telegraph 30222 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/02/13/dt-30222/ | bigdave44 | |
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 | ||
644954 | the hints below, the definitions are underlined. The answers are hidden under the Click here! buttons, so don’t click if you don’t want to see them. | P | In | 2022-10-21 | Daily Telegraph 30124 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/10/21/dt-30124/ | bigdave44 | |
645230 | the following hints, definitions are underlined, indicators are mostly in parentheses, and answers are revealed by clicking where shown as usual. | P | In | 2022-10-11 | Daily Telegraph 30115 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/10/11/dt-30115/ | bigdave44 | |
653844 | uppercase letters “Hits for onboard winding devices” (8) | CAPSTANS | onboard winding devices | In | 2023-04-08 | Financial Times 17374 Set by Gozo | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2023/04/08/financial-times-17374-set-by-gozo/ | fifteensquared |
661550 | the hints below, the definitions are underlined. The answers are hidden under the Click here! buttons, so don’t click if you don’t want to see them. | P | In | 2022-12-23 | Daily Telegraph 30178 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/23/dt-30178/ | bigdave44 | |
662812 | the hints below, underlining identifies precise definitions and cryptic definitions, and indicators are italicized. The answers will be revealed by clicking on the ANSWER buttons. | P | In | 2023-03-13 | Daily Telegraph 30246 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/13/30246/ | bigdave44 | |
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 | |
21459 | you didn't know the second definition, as I didn't, it's "a disc or wheel mounted eccentrically on a revolving shaft in order to transform rotation into backward-and-forward motion, e.g. a cam in an internal combustion engine". | Ifa | 2018-07-13 | Times 27,089 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1974160.html | times_xwd_times | ||
641609 | you like cryptic definition clues and are fond of an anagram, this Christmas Eve offering would have suited you down to the ground. I’ll just say that it did make typing the explanations more than a little repetitive! | A | If | 2016-12-30 | Daily Telegraph 28306 | http://bigdave44.com/2016/12/30/dt-28306/ | bigdave44 | |
638362 | think 16d rates as favourite today with 4a and 12a on the podium. | Q | Id | 2021-05-17 | Daily Telegraph 29677 | http://bigdave44.com/2021/05/17/dt-29677/ | bigdave44 | |
639524 | always enjoy a good cryptic definition, so my pick of the litter today is 5d. | Q | Id | 2022-04-11 | Daily Telegraph 29958 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/04/11/dt-29958/ | bigdave44 | |
641797 | tried to review this puzzle objectively, but I found that it didn’t improve on second reading. There has been some criticism from within the Telegraph camp of my approach to Excalibur’s puzzles, and I may stop reviewing them altogether (at least then I won’t have to solve them). | I | Id | 2010-06-03 | Toughie 365 | http://bigdave44.com/2010/06/03/toughie-365/ | bigdave44 | |
642554 | liked 18a and 21a which both brought a smile to my lips and I thought 4d (despite the pretty obvious definition) was well crafted. For my favourite, I will go with 9d, another clue with a lovely surface, which was one of my last to solve. | Q | Id | 2022-09-26 | Daily Telegraph 30102 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/09/26/dt-30102/ | bigdave44 | |
655939 | particularly liked 10&12a plus 21d. Which ones did it for you? | QUICKIE PUN | Id | 2023-06-01 | Daily Telegraph No 30315 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/01/172906/ | bigdave44 | |
656484 | will award clue of the day to 16a for holding out to the end. | Q | Id | 2023-01-30 | Daily Telegraph 30210 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/01/30/dt-30210/ | bigdave44 | |
657698 | liked 21a for its smooth surface reading. What stood out for you? | Q | Id | 2023-02-20 | Daily Telegraph 30228 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/02/20/dt-30228/ | bigdave44 | |
657912 | liked 25a and 3d for their well-disguised definitions. Which one(s) hit the spot for you? | Q | Id | 2023-02-03 | Daily Telegraph 30214 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/02/03/dt-30214/ | bigdave44 | |
658977 | think 5a is favourite today with 17a and 12d on the podium but it’s a close run race! For reasons unknown it took me ages to twig the bottom row pun, d’oh! | Q | Id | 2023-01-23 | Daily Telegraph 30204 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/01/23/dt-30204/ | bigdave44 | |
662120 | liked 1&14a best. Which ones earned your admiration? | Q | Id | 2023-02-23 | Daily Telegraph 30231 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/02/23/166360/ | bigdave44 | |
5070 | do like to be beside the sea! | I | Ia | 2018-07-28 | Times Cryptic No 27096 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1981841.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 | ||
28618 | don't know about you but this put me in mind of an Agatha Christie plotline - And Then There Were None | Ia | 2016-10-28 | Times 26,555 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.html | times_xwd_times | ||
34370 | struggled for some time trying to think of a three-letter word for “Ice Age”! The key is to realise you need to separate “Ice” and “Age”. | S | Ia | 2019-04-13 | Times Cryptic No 27318 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2122406.html | times_xwd_times | |
57356 | PURITANI - PUN about RITA in I and I. A work by Bellini, which I'm pretty sure has come up at least once before. | Ia | 2020-04-09 | Times 27,635 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2319188.html | times_xwd_times | ||
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. | IXIONa | 2017-04-21 | TLS Crossword 1169 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1724989.html | times_xwd_times | ||
55629 | LIT (reading) inside (engrossed in) (EASIER*). (Thanks, Kevin, for pointing out what I'd missed: LIT., short for "literature", could be a reading.) I'm not sure all Israelites are Hebrews! | Hebrew | ISRAELITEa | 2018-04-28 | Times Cryptic No 27018 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1932820.html | times_xwd_times | |
35624 | O=old QUO=word often linked with status(!), all “in” IRIS=the girl of the moment. | T | IROQUOISd | 2017-04-08 | Times Saturday 26688 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html | times_xwd_times | |
34082 | IN=batting, SI=IS “over”, ST=stumped. A double helping of cricket! | INSISTa | 2019-03-30 | Times Cryptic No 27306 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.html | times_xwd_times | ||
20646 | - Meursault being Camus's Outsider. | INSIDERa | 2017-04-21 | TLS Crossword 1169 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1724989.html | times_xwd_times | ||
5073 | IN (hip), HALER (more robust). A pedant might object that it expands the bronchi, not the chest, but near enough. | INHALERa | 2018-07-28 | Times Cryptic No 27096 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1981841.html | times_xwd_times | ||
28536 | IN ELI (BILGE*). | D | INELIGIBLEa | 2017-04-01 | Times Saturday 26682 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html | times_xwd_times | |
21468 | - I'M BRO [sibling's declaration] + GI [soldier] (with) L [left] inside + O{fficers} | IMBROGLIOa | 2018-07-13 | Times 27,089 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1974160.html | times_xwd_times | ||
21465 | - I with MAM [one; mother in Newcastle, perhaps] | IMAMa | 2018-07-13 | Times 27,089 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1974160.html | times_xwd_times | ||
28636 | - L [large] "filling" ID EST [that is] | IDLESTa | 2016-10-28 | Times 26,555 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.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 | ||
160234 | 53 on the table, 10 eat (6) | IODINE | 53 on the table | I | 2017-11-11 | Guardian Prize 27346 Paul | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2017/11/11/guardian-prize-27346-paul/ | fifteensquared |
203185 | Desire H not A, initially (4) | ITCH | Desire | I | 2016-11-12 | Guardian Prize 27034 Puck | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2016/11/12/guardian-prize-27034-puck/ | fifteensquared |
215742 | Unaware how to address Italian soldier? Then doff cap! (8) | IGNORANT | Unaware | I | 2017-06-24 | Guardian Prize 27226 Paul | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2017/06/24/guardian-prize-27226-paul/ | fifteensquared |
234320 | Two bits of gingivitis, first and foremost not greatly attractive (8) | INVITING | attractive/attractive | I | 2015-07-25 | Guardian Prize 26627 Puck | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2015/07/25/guardian-prize-26627-puck/ | fifteensquared |
271267 | Rather than mix of fine oats with date (7,2) | INSTEAD OF: | I | 2013-08-31 | Guardian Prize Puzzle 26035 by Maskarade Late Summer Prize Cryptic Crossword | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/08/31/guardian-prize-puzzle-26035-by-maskarade-late-summer-prize-cryptic-crossword/ | fifteensquared | |
596019 | Running a hotel: opportunity to score pens, snoop around (10) | INNKEEPING | I | That's How Easy Love Can Be **** | cru-cryptics/Cryptic196.pdf | cru_cryptics | ||
596044 | Reverend Spooner's ministry ditches compromises? (9, hyph.) | TRADE-OFFS | I | Acrostic | cru-cryptics/Cryptic225.pdf | cru_cryptics | ||
596067 | Balance test maintaining scales, pivotally clutched by electrical engineer (8) | EQUALIZE | I | Settling Accounts | cru-cryptics/Cryptic235.pdf | cru_cryptics | ||
641886 | thought today’s crossie was up to the usual standard we’ve come to expect on a Monday but was at the rather easy end of the spectrum. I got ten of the acrosses and all but two of the downs on first pass so * seems about right for the difficulty level. There are six full anagrams and two other clues that involve an anagram so there’s plenty of ways into the puzzle. I don’t think many of you will need any hints today. | A | I | 2022-03-21 | Daily Telegraph 29940 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/03/21/dt-29940/ | bigdave44 | |
644096 | thought I had picked up on a race-horse theme (googling every across entry – apart from the 4-letter pair – together with ‘horse’ gave a race-horse hit) but Elgar tells me there was no such intention. Spooky. | P | I | 2022-10-21 | Toughie 2944 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/10/21/toughie-2944/ | bigdave44 | |
655648 | don’t suppose anyone who wasn’t typing a review of this crossword would have noticed but this one has eleven clues requiring something to be inserted into something else (eight of the fourteen Across clues, and seven of those one after another). Could this be because I understand from someone who knows a thing or two about cryptic crossword setting, that insertion clues are the easiest to write? | P | I | 2023-03-01 | Sunday Telegraph 3200 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/01/st-3200-full-review/ | bigdave44 | |
663142 | wanted to enrich myself with more information on the phrase ‘behind bar’, the answer to the clue of 1a, particularly as far as the first definition was concerned and went on to explore the net. While getting to know about the role of the landlords and other bar staff in serving their customer, I also came across a time period that is tagged as a ‘lock-in’. It is the period when an owner or a landlord of a pub that is a public house allows patrons to continue drinking in that pub after the legal closing time, on the theory that once the doors are locked, it becomes a private party rather than a pub. Patrons may put money behind the bar before official closing time, and redeem their drinks during the ‘lock-in’ period, so as to make possible that no drinks are technically sold after the closing time. The origin of the British lock-in was a reaction to the changes that happened in 1915 in the licensing laws in England and Wales, which curtailed opening hours to stop factory workers from turning up drunk and harming the war effort. From then until the start of the twenty-first century, the licensing laws of the United Kingdom changed very little, retaining these comparatively early closing times and the tradition of the ‘lock-in’ system. | I | I | 2023-02-08 | Sunday Telegraph 3197 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/02/08/st-3197-full-review/ | bigdave44 | |
663268 | got off to a very quick start with this puzzle from Campbell and anticipated an early finish. However, I soon bogged down and had to work hard to complete it. | I | I | 2023-01-02 | Daily Telegraph 30186 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/01/02/dt-30186/ | bigdave44 | |
2473 | this clue didn't remind anyone else of the epoch-shatteringly bad Bennifer movie... | Hopea | 2018-04-06 | Times 27,005 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1920959.html | times_xwd_times | ||
657091 | from Almoradí where summer arrived with a bang about ten days ago. Hot weather, which I like, but it’s not cooling down overnight, which I don’t like. Hey ho, the joys of living in Spain. | A | Hola | 2023-06-19 | Daily Telegraph 30330 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/19/dt-30330/ | bigdave44 | |
235556 | One meaning of cove is “a curved junction of wall and ceiling (architecture)”. | 4 WATER BUTT/FOREGOING | Hidden in VendoME and TROcadero when the “and” is omitted/double definition | 2015-01-01 | Guardian Christmas Prize Puzzle No 26448 by Maskarade | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2015/01/01/guardian-christmas-prize-puzzle-no-26448-by-maskarade/ | fifteensquared | |
235565 | er Uni | 22ROQUE/AVION | Hidden and reversed (“up”) in Lancast | 2015-01-01 | Guardian Christmas Prize Puzzle No 26448 by Maskarade | https://www.fifteensquared.net/2015/01/01/guardian-christmas-prize-puzzle-no-26448-by-maskarade/ | fifteensquared | |
641014 | to pick a favourite again. Several here could have made the cut, but we chose 12a. | Q | Hard | 2022-08-10 | Daily Telegraph 30062 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/08/10/dt-30062/ | bigdave44 | |
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 | ||
18905 | - HUB [activity centre] at/before BY [times] | DOWN | HUBBYa | 2019-07-04 | Times 27,395 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2167580.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 | ||
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 | |
21462 | for governor or ambassador comes up in crosswords an awful lot, and is short for His/Her Excellency. | HEa | 2018-07-13 | Times 27,089 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1974160.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");