{"rowid": 20649, "clue": "- 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.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 20650, "clue": "- reverse anagram, since if you \"crack up\" AT ONE LINERS, you get ARE INSOLENT.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 20651, "clue": "- (TRISTA{n} MAD*) [\"with agitation\"], &lit, though I'm not sure if it refers to any play in particular, perhaps an Arthurian film or TV show?", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 21459, "clue": "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\".", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 21462, "clue": "for governor or ambassador comes up in crosswords an awful lot, and is short for His/Her Excellency.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 21463, "clue": "- SOLD outside C [flogged; clubs (suit of cards)]", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 21464, "clue": "- 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!", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 21465, "clue": "- I with MAM [one; mother in Newcastle, perhaps]", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 21466, "clue": "- 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.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 21467, "clue": "- MAG NET O [glossy, potentially; clear; O{intment}]", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 21468, "clue": "- I'M BRO [sibling's declaration] + GI [soldier] (with) L [left] inside + O{fficers}", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 21469, "clue": "- (TOP MEN ON A COURSE*) [\"oddly\"]", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 23993, "clue": "Failure to digest and copy extra comment, one with answer (7)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 23994, "clue": "How male comes to make regional side (4)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 24750, "clue": "Woodcutting axes see to rodent, mostly (10)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 26310, "clue": "get your own economy sized Tempe, take the L(iberal) out of the TEMPLE place of worship.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 26311, "clue": "Raincoat MAC (what else) and fighting man therein GI", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 26312, "clue": "My last in' fooled into thinking of haircuts. Thick hair is MANE and the current dog is I (symbol for electric current) and CUR", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 26313, "clue": "Ambassadors to the court of crossword are HE (His/er Excellency) and say is EG, the two surrounding DIN for noise", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 26314, "clue": "The well known identity of apes and bishops", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 26315, "clue": "BEGGARS OPERA Our first anagram (cultivated), of GREAT HOPES BERG and A. It would have been brilliant if the music for the 20th century version (The Threepenny Opera) had been Alban Berg\u2019s, but it was Kurt Weill\u2019s.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 26316, "clue": "Hands up if you knew the source of the yummy nuts was an evergreen. Money is CASH, and you and I backwards produce the EW", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27220, "clue": "Reversing disease, hospital stops work, what\u2019s needed in charge concerned with hitting targets? (12)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27222, "clue": "Point of verbal joke about corporation (7)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27223, "clue": "Fractious critic\u2019s circle, one among lowest class of celebs (7)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27225, "clue": "Scotland\u2019s vulgar traitor yielding lead to Queen (5)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27226, "clue": "In South America, what part of tree without new ring provides wood there? (9)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27227, "clue": "Aged reed tea the writer brought into Hawaiian feast (9)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27228, "clue": "Since mentioned previously, cropped purple fruit (5)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27229, "clue": "Machines phased out for retiring Geiger, say (7)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27230, "clue": "Taking a risky journey? No good leaving Tube to regulate flow (7)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27231, "clue": "Tanager\u2019s wings pinned by unusually sleek bird of prey (7)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27233, "clue": "The speaker\u2019s phone operating system deal which may investigate audibility problems (12)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27234, "clue": "Furthermore, housing that is sucked up (7)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27235, "clue": "Diseased plants have these: box sadly perishes (1-6)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27236, "clue": "Graceful poses survive in slight reaction? (9)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27237, "clue": "Hamper not fully repaired to improve flight for 24? (5)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27238, "clue": "Turn two non-water-soluble plant products mostly into something to freshen air (7)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27239, "clue": "Jaundiced core of views held by fractious critic (7)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27240, "clue": "Large local beetle to fly low over Arkansas-Washington canal feature (7-5)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27241, "clue": "Not the most outstanding work, viz. one Zero Mostel, losing heart, developed (5-7)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27242, "clue": "Including short witticism, recalls double entendres (9)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27243, "clue": "Sign for and transfer into little woman\u2019s custody (7)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27244, "clue": "Virus remedied with gold in infusion of leaves (3-4)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27245, "clue": "Colouring from tropical fruit mustn\u2019t save energy (7)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27246, "clue": "Tin cap removed from snout to use it in the country? (7)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 27247, "clue": "Website automatically generated hit with internal page (5)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28524, "clue": "Corporal Nym is a fictional character who appears in two Shakespeare plays, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V. He later appears in spin-off works by other writers. Nym is a soldier and criminal follower of Sir John Falstaff and a friend and rival of Ancient Pistol.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28525, "clue": "UN [\u201ca\u201d French] ORTHO [homophonic enough; those who pronounce \u201corthodox\" with a strong \"R\" sound may assume their views were noted last week!] DO [party] X [unknown].", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28526, "clue": "\u201cgang\u201d = \u201cgo\u201d, as in \u201cgang aft agley\u201d.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28527, "clue": "{b}ARRACK{s}.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28528, "clue": "(NEWS BERT*)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28529, "clue": "KEEN [lament] NES [= SEN reversed] S{showing}.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28530, "clue": "SNIP{p}ER.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28531, "clue": "alternate letters of \u201chandbag\u201d.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28532, "clue": "ESTATE: E [European] in REAL STATE.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28533, "clue": "cd. What\u2019s wrong with \u201cduckers\u201d? Well of course, it doesn\u2019t fit the crossing letter from 19dn, although Chambers seems to suggest it\u2019s otherwise a valid answer.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28534, "clue": "omitted.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28535, "clue": "sounds like DRAY.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28541, "clue": "The Battle of Cr\u00e9cy (1346), also called Battle of Cressy, was an English victory during the Edwardian phase of the Hundred Years' War.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28542, "clue": "DEER: M{o}R{e} around USK and DEE [rivers in Wales (or Scotland, dare I add)]", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28543, "clue": "VEND [sell] ACE [brill]. Yet another unknown fish \u2013 there are so many of them!", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28544, "clue": "(PLAY ROMEO N{eglecting}*)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28545, "clue": "TO NOTHING: NEXT TO [not far removed] then H [husband] in NOTING [observing].", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28546, "clue": "HANDED: C{r}ACK [\"expert\", with the \"R\" away] HAND [workman] ED [press chief].", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28605, "clue": "mountain overlooking Delphi, sacred to Dionysus and Apollo and home of the Muses, as any classicist kno.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28606, "clue": "INTO - T.A. [Territorial Army = volunteers] + PINTO [piebald horse]", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28618, "clue": "don't know about you but this put me in mind of an Agatha Christie plotline - And Then There Were None", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28619, "clue": "- G RIDDLE [grand | poser]", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28620, "clue": "IN - SIN [wrong] to cover PEEL reversed [skin, \"on reflection\"]", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28629, "clue": "some pretty heavy petting...", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28630, "clue": "- RIDER [addition], needing JOY [transport] first", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28631, "clue": "NO ODDS - a bookmaker makes odds for a betting customer; or in this case doesn't.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28632, "clue": "IN HAND - CA [= circa = roughly] + PIN HAND [restrain | labourer]", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28633, "clue": "- (ONE'S SKIP*) [\"for wreckage\", i.e. to be wrecked]", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28634, "clue": "- homophone of JACK [sailor \"in speech\"] + 0 BITE [zero | effect]", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28635, "clue": "- HEAP [stack] that has CO [= company = firm] about it. CHEAPO items may come at a knockdown price...", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28636, "clue": "- L [large] \"filling\" ID EST [that is]", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28637, "clue": "- 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.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28903, "clue": "is a Scottish [\"at Holyrood\"] word for indolent, i.e. reluctant to move.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28904, "clue": "- ICH [in Austria, I] \"tucked into\" BIR{d} [\"mostly\" fowl]", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28905, "clue": "- ({w}ORK HAS*) [\"ruined\"] + I [one], semi-&lit", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28906, "clue": "- {phen}OBA{rbitone}", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28907, "clue": "- DO U [cook | universal] + ROU{x} and COULI{s} [sauce base and thin puree, \"both reduced\"]", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28908, "clue": "- ALE WK [beer | week], the whole \"recalled\"", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28909, "clue": "- LAB BY [retreiver | near] + D{ornoch} \"cracks\" COO [my!]", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 28910, "clue": "- PITA HAY [bread | cut and dry] + A", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 31064, "clue": "Sort of skirt female medium's got out of curiosity (4,4)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 33976, "clue": "Petition of French overturned with a single cut (8)", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 34075, "clue": "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.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 34076, "clue": "replace the T=time in SPRINTER = \u201cdashing person\u201d by KL, first letters of Known Lady.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 34077, "clue": "SH=don\u2019t speak, ILL=badly. Another word of whose meaning I was uncertain, but I trusted the wordplay and wrote it in as soon as I saw it.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 34078, "clue": "this made me laugh. A den might be a lair, so if DENNY means \u201clike a den\u201d, LAIRY can do likewise. I suspected \u201clairy\u201d might be an Aussie word, and Chambers agrees, but here it is!", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 34079, "clue": "DE DEUX: anagram (\u201cunexpectedly\u201d) of (EXUDED SAP*). A part of the ballet, of course, nothing to do with a literal nutcracker.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 34080, "clue": ": A, BMAL=LAMB \u201cretiring\u201d=gentle person; all \u201cwelcoming\u201d NOR=not.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 34081, "clue": "or, MA\u2019S TIC. Apparently mastic can be used as a glue.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 34082, "clue": "IN=batting, SI=IS \u201cover\u201d, ST=stumped. A double helping of cricket!", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 34083, "clue": "or, SO BE RING.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 34084, "clue": "HALF: anagram (\u201cpoor\u201d) of (HEALTH FOR*).", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null} {"rowid": 34085, "clue": "COMMA[nd] = order, stopping before N=November.", "answer": "", "clues_fts": 228142, "rank": null}