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Link | rowid | clue | answer ▼ | clues_fts | rank |
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34086 | 34086 | A double definition, the first from Latin. | 228112 | ||
34087 | 34087 | PARCH “about” TRIA[d], “saving” the final letter. | 228112 | ||
34088 | 34088 | sounds like (“for audiobooks”) RIGHTER=more appropriate. | 228112 | ||
34159 | 34159 | Local roughly pulls insect, quietly advancing (4) | 228112 | ||
34161 | 34161 | Striking attire for ride (7) | 228112 | ||
34162 | 34162 | Odd habit mostly for Welshman to consume cocktail (7) | 228112 | ||
34163 | 34163 | Minor role of non-professionals one had rebuffed in month out of action? (15) | 228112 | ||
34164 | 34164 | Pipe that's often narrow (6) | 228112 | ||
34165 | 34165 | Male intended taking degree course for a little money (8) | 228112 | ||
34166 | 34166 | Instrument, eg, bulky to play and move finally (8) | 228112 | ||
34167 | 34167 | Leg armour touching buckled shields (6) | 228112 | ||
34168 | 34168 | Stream film appeal backing European fish pickle plant (6,9) | 228112 | ||
34169 | 34169 | Group ducks out of toe-to-toe meeting with other contestants at first (7) | 228112 | ||
34170 | 34170 | Port's enticing East Bay oddly neglected (7) | 228112 | ||
34171 | 34171 | Herald family-run ranches? (4-2-4) | 228112 | ||
34172 | 34172 | Letters heartless literary spirit returned (4) | 228112 | ||
34173 | 34173 | Speakers loudly interrupting solicitors (7) | 228112 | ||
34174 | 34174 | Stirred up jittery panel (5,4) | 228112 | ||
34177 | 34177 | What could make you go crazy: 11 plain, grasping females (6,8) | 228112 | ||
34178 | 34178 | Women's greeting: each hand making quick turn (5) | 228112 | ||
34179 | 34179 | Day without bicycle is regularly uphill struggle for Scot (7) | 228112 | ||
34180 | 34180 | Disputed issue of tax, with lover once in a blue moon hiding estimate (6,8) | 228112 | ||
34182 | 34182 | Original material from article the writer reversed, under severe criticism (8) | 228112 | ||
34373 | 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. | 228112 | ||
34374 | 34374 | T in MERE. | 228112 | ||
35568 | 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. | 228112 | ||
35569 | 35569 | STREET: since QUEER STREET could clue SETTER as an anagram. A quaint expression. | 228112 | ||
35570 | 35570 | “right wing” letters of [realit]Y [ar]E [no]T. | 228112 | ||
35571 | 35571 | QUIT inside ASH. | 228112 | ||
35572 | 35572 | BET: BUOY (as in “lift your spirits”) backwards, then ET (visitor from afar). | 228112 | ||
35573 | 35573 | MET[ropolitan Police] from London, R[oyal] I[rish] C[onstabulary] from Dublin once. Metric units – metres, kilograms etc. | 228112 | ||
35574 | 35574 | reverse (“retrospective”) hidden answer (“in part”). | 228112 | ||
35575 | 35575 | exercise your abdominals, or just talk about sailors. | 228112 | ||
35576 | 35576 | A, DUMB, RATION. As (dumb?) luck would have it, nearly this same clue appeared only the day before, but it’s still delightful. | 228112 | ||
35577 | 35577 | ZER[o] (cipher, mostly), inside AI (perfect). | 228112 | ||
35578 | 35578 | (TENT WITH E*). The final E is the ultimate in [styl]E. | 228112 | ||
35605 | 35605 | soon as I saw the second letter was a C, I tried fruitlessly to do something with “SCAM”! | 228112 | ||
35606 | 35606 | KISS: A better than average cryptic definition. | 228112 | ||
35607 | 35607 | GI=soldier, MM=2 x masses, ICKY=revolting. No, not an anagram of masses! | 228112 | ||
35608 | 35608 | OWING=in the red. All “guarding” N=knight. Did anyone read “Red Guard” as belonging together? Nice feint, that. | 228112 | ||
35609 | 35609 | TH=final letters of “must wash”, UNDER=junior, PLUMP=opt for. Never heard the expression, but it’s in Chambers. | 228112 | ||
35610 | 35610 | IN “holding” CO. | 228112 | ||
35611 | 35611 | SLICE: or EGGS LICE. | 228112 | ||
35617 | 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”? | 228112 | ||
35620 | 35620 | place was totally unfamiliar, but at least the wordplay was clear. Turns out to be the capital of Azerbaijan. | 228112 | ||
35621 | 35621 | P=quietly, EP=record, TIDES=comings and goings on beach. | 228112 | ||
35622 | 35622 | PINK: KING PIN=key figure, “kept in” SHOCK=upset. | 228112 | ||
35623 | 35623 | (THE GENIE*). Lovely clue. | 228112 | ||
36863 | 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. | 228112 | ||
36864 | 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! | 228112 | ||
36865 | 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. | 228112 | ||
36866 | 36866 | AS [chemical symbol for arsenic] P{oisoner}. | 228112 | ||
36867 | 36867 | MO [flash] ER [queen] in NASTY [vile]. | 228112 | ||
36868 | 36868 | TENDER: LEG [“on” at cricket] then END [tip] in ALTER [reform]. | 228112 | ||
36869 | 36869 | (ENABLES MC*). I had some doubt about which end of this clue was the anagram indicator, and which the definition! | 228112 | ||
36870 | 36870 | VERB O{f}TEN. | 228112 | ||
36872 | 36872 | doubt a hint of the pejorative? Ah, why can’t they be like we were – perfect in every way! | 228112 | ||
36873 | 36873 | DO OR MAT. | 228112 | ||
36874 | 36874 | JUNK [ship] ET [the canonical alien]. | 228112 | ||
37913 | 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. | 228112 | ||
37916 | 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? | 228112 | ||
37917 | 37917 | DD. | 228112 | ||
37918 | 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. | 228112 | ||
37919 | 37919 | or OVERT URN. | 228112 | ||
37920 | 37920 | CAKE: (T{ast}Y A RICH BAKED*). More misdirection - how can the anagram indicator be anything other than “baked”?? | 228112 | ||
39313 | 39313 | ox-warble is a pesky fly that produces a swelling (of the same name) on the back of an ox. | 228112 | ||
39316 | 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. | 228112 | ||
39321 | 39321 | Dickens' Tale of Two Cities, a tricoteuse who, Fate-like, encodes in her knitting the names of people to be killed. | 228112 | ||
39324 | 39324 | relating to oxygen. | 228112 | ||
39327 | 39327 | old word for a maintainer or administrator of justice. Beak is of course slang for a magistrate, as in "up before the beak". | 228112 | ||
39330 | 39330 | disappoint by not keeping an engagement, i.e. to "stand someone up", in Scotland. | 228112 | ||
39333 | 39333 | salt of xanthic acid, which I hope is as yellow as it sounds. | 228112 | ||
39336 | 39336 | Scots birch. | 228112 | ||
39339 | 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. | 228112 | ||
39342 | 39342 | that is to say producing bulbils or young plants in the flower clusters. | 228112 | ||
39345 | 39345 | sidepiece or post of a door. Quite a crossword when this is the least obscure word. | 228112 | ||
39348 | 39348 | an exarch, which is a Byzantine provincial governor, especially of Italy. | 228112 | ||
39351 | 39351 | holy man or spiritual advisor in Russia, also spelt starets. | 228112 | ||
39923 | 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. | 228112 | ||
39924 | 39924 | - K [king] on LOO [throne] | 228112 | ||
39925 | 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. | 228112 | ||
39926 | 39926 | - STAND associated with BY [viewpoint; times] | 228112 | ||
39927 | 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. | 228112 | ||
39928 | 39928 | - reverse YOB [roughneck "turning"] + HOOD [criminal] | 228112 | ||
39929 | 39929 | - MPS [politicians] "hiding" ERE [before], backing A{merica} | 228112 | ||
39930 | 39930 | GODMOTHER - (GOOD FAITH + MERRY*) ["fooling around"]. Charming not as in pleasant, but as in casting magic spells. | 228112 | ||
39931 | 39931 | - WIN O = win nothing = "make no gains at all" | 228112 | ||
39932 | 39932 | - HOUSE [put up], with ROUND [drinks] initially | 228112 | ||
39933 | 39933 | UP - MESS [place to eat] + UP, as in up in the air, as in maybe on a plane. | 228112 | ||
41670 | 41670 | Stealthy art’s classical character cloaking trendy projects (8) | 228112 | ||
41671 | 41671 | Independence Day spurned by radical in review of thriller movie (6) | 228112 | ||
41692 | 41692 | Sailor shortening uniform in euphoria’s giving emotional outbursts (12) | 228112 | ||
41783 | 41783 | young doctor as in a doctor for young patients, not a recent graduate. | 228112 | ||
41784 | 41784 | - STEELE{d} ["dock" made hard] to protect P [parking] | 228112 | ||
41785 | 41785 | - FACT I ON [truth | I | attached to] | 228112 | ||
41786 | 41786 | - reverse of WARD [someone protected "retiring"] + L [Liberal] | 228112 | ||
41787 | 41787 | - (CITY ENDS A*) ["loose"] | 228112 | ||
41788 | 41788 | - COD GER{man} [fake | European "MAN's left"] | 228112 | ||
43082 | 43082 | "nut" is another word for the printing "en" (that's half of an "em"). | 228112 | ||
43083 | 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". | 228112 |
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