rowid,clue,answer,definition,clue_number,puzzle_date,puzzle_name,source_url,source
287811,"Ban EU travel until, finally, non-existent (4)",,non-existent,3d,2021-06-26,Independent 10828 by Dalibor Saturday Puzzle 26 June 2021,https://www.fifteensquared.net/2021/06/26/independent-10828-by-dalibor-saturday-puzzle-26-june-2021/,fifteensquared
1482,Strut around Hamilton with pasty-eating top executive (5),,Strut around Hamilton,14a,2014-11-28,Club Monthly 20170,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1223089.html,times_xwd_times
1503,Birthday’s coming up: look to stop that old person's curse!,,old person's curse,21d,2014-11-28,Club Monthly 20170,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1223089.html,times_xwd_times
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
2474,"RIP - sounds like ""LET'S RIP"", which could be an invitation to copy software or what have you",,,LETSa,2018-04-06,"Times 27,005",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1920959.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
2476,"- CURTAIL [dock] replacing its last letter with... um, N for large? Think I'm missing something",,,CURTAINa,2018-04-06,"Times 27,005",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1920959.html,times_xwd_times
2477,- AN NOD AM [an | agreement | earlier in the day] reversed,,,MADONNAa,2018-04-06,"Times 27,005",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1920959.html,times_xwd_times
2478,- {br}ECHT - German playwright (Bertolt) losing his BR for British,,,ECHTa,2018-04-06,"Times 27,005",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1920959.html,times_xwd_times
2479,"- (MEETING NOT*) [""for reorganising""]",,,MIGNONETTEa,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
2481,- double def,,,DASHESa,2018-04-06,"Times 27,005",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1920959.html,times_xwd_times
5071,"the brass bands play: ""Tidd[e]ly-om-pom-pom!""",,,Wherea,2018-07-28,Times Cryptic No 27096,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1981841.html,times_xwd_times
5072,"BACK: double definition, the first facetious.",,,LIEa,2018-07-28,Times Cryptic No 27096,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1981841.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
5074,"MILL: FLOUR sounds like “flower”, as in “the flower of English womanhood”. The philosopher is John Stuart MILL.",,,FLOURa,2018-07-28,Times Cryptic No 27096,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1981841.html,times_xwd_times
5075,spelled out by the first letters (“the faces”) of each word.,,,TEMPTa,2018-07-28,Times Cryptic No 27096,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1981841.html,times_xwd_times
5076,"sounds like SOW FEAR, at least to non-rhotic speakers (those who don’t stress their “r”s).",,,SOFIAa,2018-07-28,Times Cryptic No 27096,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1981841.html,times_xwd_times
7366,South African lynx runs ahead of boor in grass (7),,South African lynx,1a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7367,"Help with vessel, Sinbad’s cutter? (7)",,Sinbad’s cutter,5a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7368,Stick Old Testament in non-standard agreement for faith schools (9),,faith schools,9a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7369,"What might make trunk sticky, foul-minded nurses? (5)",,What might make trunk sticky,10a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7370,"Unfinished poem, hard in Armenian (5)",,Armenian,11a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7371,a poem,,,writinga,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7372,very diffic,,,isa,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.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
7374,"- DIE (perish) + FF (following repeated) + B(ANKS) in *(CHINA SEA). Tricky! Fortunately a word I had come across before, but the wordplay was hard to unravel.. ages spent thinking there would be a BB in there somewhere",,,dieffenbachiasa,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.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
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
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
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
7379,"- E(nglish) and OZ, rev. in BARDIC (related to lyricists). Nice surface!",,,bezoardica,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.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
7382,"In sunshine, it’s surprising infidels among the Ottomans (6)",,infidels among the Ottomans,1a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7383,Outsiders displace Gift Aid’s regular contributions (7),,Outsiders,2a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7384,"Red-flowering plant starts in area in front of house, perhaps carnation coming up (9)",,Red-flowering plant,3a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7385,Obstacles for cavalry: louts rode unsteadily on horseback (5-2-4),,Obstacles for cavalry,4a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7386,Stop Her Highness seizing ring (3),,Stop,5a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7387,Aged female relative’s sister capturing a brother’s heart (5),,Aged female relative’s,6a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7388,"Flowery muslin stuff seen on lion-tamer, more than half visible (7)",,Flowery muslin stuff,7a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7389,Upset once scriptural teaching is on new division in Biblical chapter (8),,Upset once,8a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7390,"Perth beggar’s lifted pouch, form of lure that is found around New Zealand (11)",,Perth beggar’s,13a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7391,Headed mushroom consumed by Henry? (9),,Headed,15a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7392,See someone gathering stuff on ground that covers Channel Islands up? (8),,,16a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7393,About time to neuter mounting dog (7),,dog,18a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7394,"Cut off old-style pledge, upset (at giving way to crude signature?) (7)",,Cut off old-style,19a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7395,In Rhineland I must interrupt visit for “rock” in body of water (6),,“rock” in body of water,20a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7396,Brass work that’s tedious moving over to first place (5),,Brass,22a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
7397,Wader leaving northernmost island again (3),,again,25a,2014-08-29,Club Monthly 20167,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html,times_xwd_times
8588,"the word, although I saw it from the wordplay once I had a couple of helpers. Wikipedia tells me: Ætheling (also spelt Aetheling, Atheling or Etheling) was an Old English term used in Anglo-Saxon England to designate princes of the royal dynasty who were eligible for the kingship.",,,DNKa,2017-04-22,Times Saturday 26700,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1725548.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
11038,"PAY (foot, the bill for example) around (about) ISLE (an inch).",,,PAISLEYa,2018-11-24,Times Cryptic No 27198,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2045072.html,times_xwd_times
11039,"AS (when) following M (mass) and X (times), the last two letters reversed (reflecting).",,,XMASa,2018-11-24,Times Cryptic No 27198,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2045072.html,times_xwd_times
11214,afterpiece is a short dramatic entertainment performed after the principal play.,,,Ana,2019-11-21,"Times 27,515",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2243399.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
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
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
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
11219,- AB SO LUTIST [muscle | hence | someone pulling/plucking the strings],,,ABSOLUTISTa,2019-11-21,"Times 27,515",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2243399.html,times_xwd_times
11220,"A - TAMIN{g} [checking, ""short""] ""cuts"" VIA [using]",,,VITAMINa,2019-11-21,"Times 27,515",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2243399.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
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
11413,"pluperfect tense denotes an action completed prior to some past point of time specified or implied, formed in English by had and the past participle, as in he had gone by then. Hands up anyone who knew that without having studied Latin, Greek or Times crosswords!",,,Thea,2018-03-24,Times Cryptic No 26988,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1914094.html,times_xwd_times
11414,backwards hidden answer.,,,VEERa,2018-03-24,Times Cryptic No 26988,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1914094.html,times_xwd_times
11415,"FIX = difficulty, ATE = worried.",,,FIXATEa,2018-03-24,Times Cryptic No 26988,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1914094.html,times_xwd_times
11416,"I YAK = “rabbit I"", had inside TERI = every second letter of “ThE tRaIn”.",,,TERIYAKIa,2018-03-24,Times Cryptic No 26988,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1914094.html,times_xwd_times
11417,"cryptic definition, relating to how Miss Muffet reacted to the spider.",,,WHEYa,2018-03-24,Times Cryptic No 26988,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1914094.html,times_xwd_times
13539,"sure how many time signals you get on TV in these days of ubiquitous mobile phones, but I assume they used to be happen and be very useful in the day?",,,Nota,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13540,OUP [= Oxford University Press = publisher] wants a C [chapter] at the front,,,COUPa,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13541,"COLE [old king (in the nursery rhyme)] keeping ARI{d} [dry ""for the most part""]",,,CARIOLEa,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13542,"after FED reversed [US agent ""returned""], LATE [behind schedule]",,,DEFLATEa,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13543,WELL IN [very familiar] with G TON [good | fashion],,,WELLINGTONa,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13544,A [area] at end of GO [journey],,,GOAa,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13545,O O [two eggs] + LONG [potentially boring],,,OOLONGa,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13546,double def,,,CONTRACTa,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13547,"THE SLY: (HONESTLY*) [""manoeuvring""]",,,ONa,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13548,reverse all of REC COS [sports ground + companies],,,SOCCERa,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13549,"double def. RAY as in doh-ray-mi-fah, the second note of the diatonic scale.",,,RAYa,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13550,"DATES [particular days], collecting OCTO{be}R [one month, but with BE ""avoided""]",,,DOCTORATESa,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13551,"reverse all of RED O ORB [left-wing | sphere, ""without"" (as in outside of) O for love]",,,BROODERa,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13552,"SKIER [sportsperson] ""digesting"" PP [pianissimo = very quiet]",,,SKIPPERa,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13553,"SEND [to despatch], its first letter moved to the end",,,ENDSa,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13559,Greene surely must be the author to have made most appearances in cryptics due to his helpful letters. Are there any other contenders?,,,Grahama,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13560,"ADDIC{t}ION [habit, losing its C for cold]",,,ADDITIONa,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13561,"(I G{rimace} A LOT A*) [""nasty""]",,,OTALGIAa,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
13562,POE [author] gets presented with TASTERS [samples],,,POETASTERSa,2018-05-18,"Times 27,041",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html,times_xwd_times
18904,ewe-necked horse has a thin concave neck. Not to be confused with a V-necked sweater.,,,Aa,2019-07-04,"Times 27,395",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2167580.html,times_xwd_times
18908,"""pay"" is to waterproof a boat by sealing it with tar.",,,Toa,2019-07-04,"Times 27,395",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2167580.html,times_xwd_times
18909,- CO [carbon monoxide = harmful gas] found by JONES [Welshman],,,COJONESa,2019-07-04,"Times 27,395",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2167580.html,times_xwd_times
18910,"- {n}AV{y} + I'S [one's], all reversed for this Hindu deity.",,,SIVAa,2019-07-04,"Times 27,395",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2167580.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
18912,TOWN - SPAT OWN [argument | to have],,,SPAa,2019-07-04,"Times 27,395",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2167580.html,times_xwd_times
18913,"- DALI [Spaniard (Salvador) who painted] in {m}OSQUE [place of worship, ""topless""]",,,ODALISQUEa,2019-07-04,"Times 27,395",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2167580.html,times_xwd_times
20642,else a little Conservative!,,,Ora,2017-04-21,TLS Crossword 1169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1724989.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
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
20645,"- (MAR TRUE*) [""representation""], semi-&lit",,,ERRATUMa,2017-04-21,TLS Crossword 1169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1724989.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
20647,THINGS - T{able} + EATING S [consuming | seconds] about H{our},,,TEAa,2017-04-21,TLS Crossword 1169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1724989.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
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