rowid,clue,answer,definition,clue_number,puzzle_date,puzzle_name,source_url,source
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
20650,"- reverse anagram, since if you ""crack up"" AT ONE LINERS, you get ARE INSOLENT.",,,ONE-LINERSa,2017-04-21,TLS Crossword 1169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1724989.html,times_xwd_times
20651,"- (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?",,,DRAMATISTa,2017-04-21,TLS Crossword 1169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1724989.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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
21469,"- (TOP MEN ON A COURSE*) [""oddly""]",,,CONTEMPORANEOUSa,2018-07-13,"Times 27,089",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1974160.html,times_xwd_times
23993,"Failure to digest and copy extra comment, one with answer (7)",,Failure to digest,24a,2016-07-29,Club Monthly 20190,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1566353.html,times_xwd_times
23994,How male comes to make regional side (4),,regional side,25a,2016-07-29,Club Monthly 20190,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1566353.html,times_xwd_times
24750,"Woodcutting axes see to rodent, mostly (10)",,Woodcutting,9a,2017-07-28,Club Monthly 20202,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1783365.html,times_xwd_times
26310,"get your own economy sized Tempe, take the L(iberal) out of the TEMPLE place of worship.",,,Toa,2021-01-14,27874,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2472343.html,times_xwd_times
26311,Raincoat MAC (what else) and fighting man therein GI,,,MAGICa,2021-01-14,27874,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2472343.html,times_xwd_times
26312,My last in' fooled into thinking of haircuts. Thick hair is MANE and the current dog is I (symbol for electric current) and CUR,,,MANICUREa,2021-01-14,27874,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2472343.html,times_xwd_times
26313,"Ambassadors to the court of crossword are HE (His/er Excellency) and say is EG, the two surrounding DIN for noise",,,HEEDINGa,2021-01-14,27874,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2472343.html,times_xwd_times
26314,The well known identity of apes and bishops,,,PRIMATEa,2021-01-14,27874,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2472343.html,times_xwd_times
26315,"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’s, but it was Kurt Weill’s.",,,THEa,2021-01-14,27874,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2472343.html,times_xwd_times
26316,"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",,,CASHEWa,2021-01-14,27874,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2472343.html,times_xwd_times
27220,"Reversing disease, hospital stops work, what’s needed in charge concerned with hitting targets? (12)",,concerned with hitting targets,1a,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27222,Point of verbal joke about corporation (7),,Point,9a,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27223,"Fractious critic’s circle, one among lowest class of celebs (7)",,Fractious critic,11a,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27225,Scotland’s vulgar traitor yielding lead to Queen (5),,Scotland’s vulgar,13a,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27226,"In South America, what part of tree without new ring provides wood there? (9)",,wood there,14a,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27227,Aged reed tea the writer brought into Hawaiian feast (9),,Aged reed,16a,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27228,"Since mentioned previously, cropped purple fruit (5)",,purple fruit,19a,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27229,"Machines phased out for retiring Geiger, say (7)",,Machines phased out,21a,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27230,Taking a risky journey? No good leaving Tube to regulate flow (7),,Tube to regulate flow,23a,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27231,Tanager’s wings pinned by unusually sleek bird of prey (7),,bird of prey,24a,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27233,The speaker’s phone operating system deal which may investigate audibility problems (12),,which may investigate audibility problems,26a,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27234,"Furthermore, housing that is sucked up (7)",,sucked up,1d,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27235,Diseased plants have these: box sadly perishes (1-6),,Diseased plants have these,2d,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27236,Graceful poses survive in slight reaction? (9),,Graceful poses,3d,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27237,Hamper not fully repaired to improve flight for 24?  (5),,repaired to improve flight for 24?,4d,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27238,Turn two non-water-soluble plant products mostly into something to freshen air (7),,something to freshen air,5d,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27239,Jaundiced core of views held by fractious critic (7),,Jaundiced,6d,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27240,Large local beetle to fly low over Arkansas-Washington canal feature (7-5),,Large local beetle,7d,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27241,"Not the most outstanding work, viz. one Zero Mostel, losing heart, developed (5-7)",,Not the most outstanding work,10d,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27242,"Including short witticism, recalls double entendres (9)",,double entendres,15d,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27243,Sign for and  transfer into little woman’s custody (7),,Sign for and,17d,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27244,Virus remedied with gold in infusion of leaves (3-4),,infusion of leaves,18d,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27245,Colouring from tropical fruit mustn’t save energy (7),,Colouring from tropical fruit,19d,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27246,Tin cap removed from snout to use it in the country? (7),,to use it in the country,20d,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
27247,Website automatically generated hit with internal page (5),,Website automatically generated,22d,2014-10-31,Club Monthly 20169,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1207348.html,times_xwd_times
28524,"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.",,,Wikipediaa,2017-04-01,Times Saturday 26682,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html,times_xwd_times
28525,"UN [“a” French] ORTHO [homophonic enough; those who pronounce “orthodox"" with a strong ""R"" sound may assume their views were noted last week!] DO [party] X [unknown].",,,UNORTHODOXa,2017-04-01,Times Saturday 26682,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html,times_xwd_times
28526,"“gang” = “go”, as in “gang aft agley”.",,,AGOa,2017-04-01,Times Saturday 26682,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html,times_xwd_times
28527,{b}ARRACK{s}.,,,ARRACKa,2017-04-01,Times Saturday 26682,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html,times_xwd_times
28528,(NEWS BERT*),,,BESTREWNa,2017-04-01,Times Saturday 26682,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.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
28530,SNIP{p}ER.,,,SNIPERa,2017-04-01,Times Saturday 26682,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html,times_xwd_times
28531,alternate letters of “handbag”.,,,ADAa,2017-04-01,Times Saturday 26682,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html,times_xwd_times
28532,ESTATE: E [European] in REAL STATE.,,,REALa,2017-04-01,Times Saturday 26682,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html,times_xwd_times
28533,"cd. What’s wrong with “duckers”? Well of course, it doesn’t fit the crossing letter from 19dn, although Chambers seems to suggest it’s otherwise a valid answer.",,,DIPPERSa,2017-04-01,Times Saturday 26682,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html,times_xwd_times
28534,omitted.,,,CRIMEANa,2017-04-01,Times Saturday 26682,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html,times_xwd_times
28535,sounds like DRAY.,,,DREYa,2017-04-01,Times Saturday 26682,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html,times_xwd_times
28541,"The Battle of Crécy (1346), also called Battle of Cressy, was an English victory during the Edwardian phase of the Hundred Years' War.",,,Wikipediaa,2017-04-01,Times Saturday 26682,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html,times_xwd_times
28542,"DEER: M{o}R{e} around USK and DEE [rivers in Wales (or Scotland, dare I add)]",,,MUSKa,2017-04-01,Times Saturday 26682,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html,times_xwd_times
28543,VEND [sell] ACE [brill]. Yet another unknown fish – there are so many of them!,,,VENDACEa,2017-04-01,Times Saturday 26682,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html,times_xwd_times
28544,(PLAY ROMEO N{eglecting}*),,,LAMPOONERYa,2017-04-01,Times Saturday 26682,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html,times_xwd_times
28545,TO NOTHING: NEXT TO [not far removed] then H [husband] in NOTING [observing].,,,NEXTa,2017-04-01,Times Saturday 26682,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html,times_xwd_times
28546,"HANDED: C{r}ACK [""expert"", with the ""R"" away] HAND [workman] ED [press chief].",,,CACKa,2017-04-01,Times Saturday 26682,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html,times_xwd_times
28605,"mountain overlooking Delphi, sacred to Dionysus and Apollo and home of the Muses, as any classicist kno.",,,Thea,2016-10-28,"Times 26,555",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.html,times_xwd_times
28606,INTO - T.A. [Territorial Army = volunteers] + PINTO [piebald horse],,,TAPa,2016-10-28,"Times 26,555",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.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
28619,- G RIDDLE [grand | poser],,,GRIDDLEa,2016-10-28,"Times 26,555",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.html,times_xwd_times
28620,"IN - SIN [wrong] to cover PEEL reversed [skin, ""on reflection""]",,,SLEEPa,2016-10-28,"Times 26,555",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.html,times_xwd_times
28629,some pretty heavy petting...,,,That'sa,2016-10-28,"Times 26,555",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.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
28631,NO ODDS - a bookmaker makes odds for a betting customer; or in this case doesn't.,,,MAKEa,2016-10-28,"Times 26,555",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.html,times_xwd_times
28632,IN HAND - CA [= circa = roughly] + PIN HAND [restrain | labourer],,,CAPa,2016-10-28,"Times 26,555",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.html,times_xwd_times
28633,"- (ONE'S SKIP*) [""for wreckage"", i.e. to be wrecked]",,,POKINESSa,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
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
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
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
28903,"is a Scottish [""at Holyrood""] word for indolent, i.e. reluctant to move.",,,Sweirta,2018-05-01,"Monthly Club Special 20,211",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1935023.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
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
28906,- {phen}OBA{rbitone},,,OBAa,2018-05-01,"Monthly Club Special 20,211",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1935023.html,times_xwd_times
28907,"- DO U [cook | universal] + ROU{x} and COULI{s} [sauce base and thin puree, ""both reduced""]",,,DOUROUCOULIa,2018-05-01,"Monthly Club Special 20,211",https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1935023.html,times_xwd_times
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
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
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
31064,"Sort of skirt female medium's got out of curiosity (4,4)",,curiosity,19a,2015-09-25,Club Monthly 20180,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1388049.html,times_xwd_times
33976,Petition of French overturned with a single cut (8),,cut,17d,2016-01-29,Club Monthly 20184,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1459614.html,times_xwd_times
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
34076,"replace the T=time in SPRINTER = “dashing person” by KL, first letters of Known Lady.",,,SPRINKLERa,2019-03-30,Times Cryptic No 27306,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.html,times_xwd_times
34077,"SH=don’t 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.",,,SHILLa,2019-03-30,Times Cryptic No 27306,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.html,times_xwd_times
34078,"this made me laugh. A den might be a lair, so if DENNY means “like a den”, LAIRY can do likewise. I suspected “lairy” might be an Aussie word, and Chambers agrees, but here it is!",,,LAIRYa,2019-03-30,Times Cryptic No 27306,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.html,times_xwd_times
34079,"DE DEUX: anagram (“unexpectedly”) of (EXUDED SAP*). A part of the ballet, of course, nothing to do with a literal nutcracker.",,,PASa,2019-03-30,Times Cryptic No 27306,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.html,times_xwd_times
34080,": A, BMAL=LAMB “retiring”=gentle person; all “welcoming” NOR=not.",,,ABNORMALa,2019-03-30,Times Cryptic No 27306,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.html,times_xwd_times
34081,"or, MA’S TIC. Apparently mastic can be used as a glue.",,,MASTICa,2019-03-30,Times Cryptic No 27306,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.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
34083,"or, SO BE RING.",,,SOBERINGa,2019-03-30,Times Cryptic No 27306,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.html,times_xwd_times
34084,HALF: anagram (“poor”) of (HEALTH FOR*).,,,OTHERa,2019-03-30,Times Cryptic No 27306,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.html,times_xwd_times
34085,"COMMA[nd] = order, stopping before N=November.",,,COMMAa,2019-03-30,Times Cryptic No 27306,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.html,times_xwd_times
34086,"A double definition, the first from Latin.",,,SALVEa,2019-03-30,Times Cryptic No 27306,https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.html,times_xwd_times