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rowid | clue ▼ | answer | definition | clue_number | puzzle_date | puzzle_name | source_url | source |
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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 | |
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 | ||
54583 | - FINAL [settled] on QUARTER [region] | QUARTER-FINALa | 2019-07-25 | Times 27,413 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2178641.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 | ||
57352 | - FOX {producin}G LOVE. A foxglove is the source of the drug digitalis. | FOXGLOVEa | 2020-04-09 | Times 27,635 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2319188.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 | |
39346 | - FRIES IS H [junk food | is | hard] | O | FRIESISHd | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html | times_xwd_times | |
28619 | - G RIDDLE [grand | poser] | GRIDDLEa | 2016-10-28 | Times 26,555 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.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 | ||
39352 | - GO [board game] + LP [one played for longer] | A | GOLPd | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
28635 | - HEAP [stack] that has CO [= company = firm] about it. CHEAPO items may come at a knockdown price... | CHEAPOa | 2016-10-28 | Times 26,555 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.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 | ||
58810 | - HOLE for opening is easy enough, but where I earn my corn today is by pointing out that pigeon can be used to mean responsibility, usually in negative phrases - naturally - like 'Look, mate, that's not my pigeon' | PIGEONHOLEa | 2018-08-06 | Times 27109 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1986608.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 | ||
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 | |
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
28904 | - ICH [in Austria, I] "tucked into" BIR{d} ["mostly" fowl] | BICHIRa | 2018-05-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,211 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1935023.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 | ||
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 | ||
54582 | - If SIGH is "short sight", then it is the thing that is the matter with a MYOPIC viewer. I wish this had clued "short sight" rather than a word that needs to be convolutedly derived from a cryptic depiction of short sight :P | MYOPICa | 2019-07-25 | Times 27,413 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2178641.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 | ||
51580 | - KINK + A + JO + U[ncovered] | KINKAJOUa | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
18911 | - L IKE MINDED [Liberal | President (Eisenhower) | tended] | LIKE-MINDEDa | 2019-07-04 | Times 27,395 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2167580.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 | ||
28909 | - LAB BY [retreiver | near] + D{ornoch} "cracks" COO [my!] | CLABBY-DOOa | 2018-05-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,211 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1935023.html | times_xwd_times | ||
21467 | - MAG NET O [glossy, potentially; clear; O{intment}] | MAGNETa | 2018-07-13 | Times 27,089 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1974160.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 | ||
20646 | - Meursault being Camus's Outsider. | INSIDERa | 2017-04-21 | TLS Crossword 1169 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1724989.html | times_xwd_times | ||
58802 | - N IR VAN A | NIRVANAa | 2018-08-06 | Times 27109 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1986608.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39340 | - NAST{y} ["mostly" mean] + A L IQ [a | large | measure of intelligence] | P | NASTALIQd | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.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 | ||
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 | ||
20644 | - Not sure if this is a reference to Olivia Manning's novel "School for Love"? I'm afraid to say I bunged this in after ruling out SHADOWS, assuming it was a Twelfth Night reference... but if it is, it's gone over my head! | SCHOOLSa | 2017-04-21 | TLS Crossword 1169 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1724989.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39322 | - OBS [pupils once] + EQU{err}Y [attendant, who has lost ERR meaning "slip"] | O | OBSEQUYa | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.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 | ||
54584 | - ON [possible] + L{ocalit}Y | ONLYa | 2019-07-25 | Times 27,413 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2178641.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 | ||
43103 | - OR + CHEST RATE [bust | judge] | ORCHESTRATEd | 2019-05-16 | Times 27,353 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2141043.html | times_xwd_times | ||
20643 | - OUT [unfashionable] + homophone of DONNE. | OUTDONEa | 2017-04-21 | TLS Crossword 1169 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1724989.html | times_xwd_times | ||
57353 | - OVER ISSUE [concerning | children]. If a bank has overissued currency, this would constitute a note glut. | OVERISSUEa | 2020-04-09 | Times 27,635 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2319188.html | times_xwd_times | ||
54579 | - P RAISED [pressure | increased] | PRAISEDa | 2019-07-25 | Times 27,413 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2178641.html | times_xwd_times | ||
48212 | - PARLEYED [spoke French perhaps], "visited" by E [English] | DOWN | PEARL-EYEDa | 2019-09-30 | Monthly Club Special 20,228 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2215364.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 | ||
28910 | - PITA HAY [bread | cut and dry] + A | PITAHAYAa | 2018-05-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,211 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1935023.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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
7380 | - R(un) + *(RESORT) | rortersa | 2014-08-29 | Club Monthly 20167 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html | times_xwd_times | ||
54581 | - RAT [desert] keeps INCA [7d] keeps O [nothing] | RAINCOATa | 2019-07-25 | Times 27,413 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2178641.html | times_xwd_times | ||
21464 | - RE{a}R [bring up], with S CUE [second | reminder] in place of ["for"] the "a". An easy clue to bung in but a harder one to parse correctly! | RESCUERa | 2018-07-13 | Times 27,089 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1974160.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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
21466 | - SCHOOL M{arking} A RM. Fish come in schools and an RM is a Royal Marine is a jolly, but probably not a Jolly Jack Tar it seems. | SCHOOLMARMa | 2018-07-13 | Times 27,089 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1974160.html | times_xwd_times | ||
21470 | - SHOP [give away] + KEEPER [ring] | I | SHOPKEEPERa | 2018-07-13 | Times 27,089 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1974160.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 | ||
2475 | - SLIGHT [small] "seals" {shor}E | SLEIGHTa | 2018-04-06 | Times 27,005 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1920959.html | times_xwd_times | ||
21463 | - SOLD outside C [flogged; clubs (suit of cards)] | SCOLDa | 2018-07-13 | Times 27,089 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1974160.html | times_xwd_times | ||
48205 | - SOLE in OZ could be [unique Down Under], then reverse to get the musical direction. | S | ZELOSOa | 2019-09-30 | Monthly Club Special 20,228 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2215364.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 | ||
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 | ||
51582 | - SUB reversed in ROT | ROBUSTa | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.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 | ||
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 | ||
21460 | - THO in ES [albeit (= though) briefly; French word for art, as in thou art, tu es] | DOWN | ETHOSa | 2018-07-13 | Times 27,089 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1974160.html | times_xwd_times | |
57355 | - TWIT + E. The twite is a mountain linnet, I discovered. | TWITEa | 2020-04-09 | Times 27,635 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2319188.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 | ||
58803 | - U[nderrating] in SPINE | SUPINEa | 2018-08-06 | Times 27109 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1986608.html | times_xwd_times | ||
28637 | - WAG [= (singular of) wives and girlfriends = other half of sportsman] + ON [(cricketing) leg]. A train wagon may be pulled by an engine over a (railway) line. | WAGONa | 2016-10-28 | Times 26,555 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.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 | ||
39331 | - ZO{n->PILOT}E. Take ZONE, an area, and replace the last letter of {carrio}N with PILOT [one flying]. | A | ZOPILOTEa | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.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 | ||
54580 | - a cryptic definition for this presumably gregarious fish | GROUPERa | 2019-07-25 | Times 27,413 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2178641.html | times_xwd_times | ||
58811 | - a flat, as well as a sharp, a natural, a double sharp, a dou (that's enough, ed), may be found on a clef | DOWN | FLATa | 2018-08-06 | Times 27109 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1986608.html | times_xwd_times | |
20648 | - a not-very-cryptic cryptic definition? Or perhaps "of imprisonment" is cluing OF LAG? Reader, I biffed it. | OFLAGa | 2017-04-21 | TLS Crossword 1169 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1724989.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 | ||
2481 | - double def | DASHESa | 2018-04-06 | Times 27,005 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1920959.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 | ||
54586 | - double def, Lear being Edward Lear, purveyor of nonsense verse. | DOWN | NONSENSEa | 2019-07-25 | Times 27,413 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2178641.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 | ||
20652 | - hidden &littishly in {assassi}N IN JA{pan}, and becoming something of a chestnut! | D | NINJAa | 2017-04-21 | TLS Crossword 1169 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1724989.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 | ||
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 | ||
28911 | - hidden reversed in {d}UDE LET{hargically} | DOWN | TELEDUa | 2018-05-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,211 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1935023.html | times_xwd_times | |
39337 | - hidden reversed in {t}AME TO RE{aders} | A | EROTEMAd | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
2482 | - homophone of REIGN DEAR [period of influence | precious, "we say"] | DOWN | REINDEERa | 2018-04-06 | Times 27,005 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1920959.html | times_xwd_times | |
2480 | - humorously misconstrued, if you only spend a single second in command, you've been a very short time at the top | SECOND-IN-COMMANDa | 2018-04-06 | Times 27,005 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1920959.html | times_xwd_times | ||
58806 | - if you were of a particularly poetic bent, you might look out the window, see a fledgling magpie on your lawn and say, 'Look at that wee pie' | WEEPIEa | 2018-08-06 | Times 27109 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1986608.html | times_xwd_times | ||
58809 | - if you were working for Dutchman William III, you might be called an Orange aide by the sort of person who looked out of the window, saw a fledgling ... | ORANGEADEa | 2018-08-06 | Times 27109 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1986608.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 | ||
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 |
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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");