{"rowid": 7371, "clue": "a poem", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "writinga", "puzzle_date": "2014-08-29", "puzzle_name": "Club Monthly 20167", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 51579, "clue": "of this name.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "wifea", "puzzle_date": "2018-01-08", "puzzle_name": "Times 26929", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 58800, "clue": "edge of a fore-and-aft sail next to the mast or stay'", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "thea", "puzzle_date": "2018-08-06", "puzzle_name": "Times 27109", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1986608.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 7373, "clue": "- S(mall) + AGITTATE, worry with a \"double nucleus\"", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "sagittatea", "puzzle_date": "2014-08-29", "puzzle_name": "Club Monthly 20167", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 7380, "clue": "- R(un) + *(RESORT)", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "rortersa", "puzzle_date": "2014-08-29", "puzzle_name": "Club Monthly 20167", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 7375, "clue": "- RH + Y (unknown, not x or z) + PA (aide) + RAP (strike) and H(ours) in ROGER (understood).", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "rhyparographera", "puzzle_date": "2014-08-29", "puzzle_name": "Club Monthly 20167", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 51590, "clue": "in WEARY", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "performinga", "puzzle_date": "2018-01-08", "puzzle_name": "Times 26929", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 51609, "clue": "a similar division. The word, which is archaic, is of Old English date and has an exact correspondent", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "ord", "puzzle_date": "2018-01-08", "puzzle_name": "Times 26929", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 7378, "clue": "- HC + T(HAT) + UK, all rev.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "kutcha", "puzzle_date": "2014-08-29", "puzzle_name": "Club Monthly 20167", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 7372, "clue": "very diffic", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "isa", "puzzle_date": "2014-08-29", "puzzle_name": "Club Monthly 20167", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 51592, "clue": "in our family when the lady in question took up with a wealthy Hampshire landowner who", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "interestinga", "puzzle_date": "2018-01-08", "puzzle_name": "Times 26929", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 7376, "clue": "- IMP (terror, eg my grandson) + ROMP (spree) + ( AU )TU(MN)", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "impromptua", "puzzle_date": "2014-08-29", "puzzle_name": "Club Monthly 20167", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 51610, "clue": "in the composition of his 132-verse nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark, beginning", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "gravityd", "puzzle_date": "2018-01-08", "puzzle_name": "Times 26929", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 7381, "clue": "- EP + ER (queen) + DUE (expected)", "answer": "D", "definition": null, "clue_number": "eperduea", "puzzle_date": "2014-08-29", "puzzle_name": "Club Monthly 20167", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 7374, "clue": "- 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", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "dieffenbachiasa", "puzzle_date": "2014-08-29", "puzzle_name": "Club Monthly 20167", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 7379, "clue": "- E(nglish) and OZ, rev. in BARDIC (related to lyricists). Nice surface!", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "bezoardica", "puzzle_date": "2014-08-29", "puzzle_name": "Club Monthly 20167", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 51593, "clue": "more pertinently, Christian name. For days people kept coming up to Dad, saying, 'Bill, we never", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "anda", "puzzle_date": "2018-01-08", "puzzle_name": "Times 26929", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 7377, "clue": "- hmm, I think this is CLEAN (without difficulties) \"cycled\" into ANCLE. Not a device I recall seeing before", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "anclea", "puzzle_date": "2014-08-29", "puzzle_name": "Club Monthly 20167", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1172474.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 41684, "clue": "the acrosses look OK. Onwards:", "answer": "D", "definition": null, "clue_number": "a", "puzzle_date": "2016-12-30", "puzzle_name": "Club Monthly 20195", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1658870.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 39343, "clue": "- (CD GOT LAZYY*) [\"remastering...\"]", "answer": "H", "definition": null, "clue_number": "ZYGODACTYLd", "puzzle_date": "2018-02-01", "puzzle_name": "Monthly Club Special 20,208", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 39331, "clue": "- ZO{n->PILOT}E. Take ZONE, an area, and replace the last letter of {carrio}N with PILOT [one flying].", "answer": "A", "definition": null, "clue_number": "ZOPILOTEa", "puzzle_date": "2018-02-01", "puzzle_name": "Monthly Club Special 20,208", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 48205, "clue": "- SOLE in OZ could be [unique Down Under], then reverse to get the musical direction.", "answer": "S", "definition": null, "clue_number": "ZELOSOa", "puzzle_date": "2019-09-30", "puzzle_name": "Monthly Club Special 20,228", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2215364.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 22645, "clue": "Aye! (as we used to say, or sign-off in the RN)", "answer": "R", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Yoursd", "puzzle_date": "2021-01-21", "puzzle_name": "Times Quick Cryptic No 1793", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2476305.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 50981, "clue": "like myself (hem hem) only know this use of \"wig\" to mean \"berate\" from the Times crossword.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Youngstersa", "puzzle_date": "2018-07-06", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic 27,083", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1970809.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 11440, "clue": "for introduction of vernacular swearing, half-lost in essence (5-5)", "answer": "YLANG", "definition": "essence", "clue_number": "Yena", "puzzle_date": "2020-10-31", "puzzle_name": "Monthly Club Special 20,241", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2432697.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 35572, "clue": "BET: BUOY (as in \u201clift your spirits\u201d) backwards, then ET (visitor from afar).", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "YOUa", "puzzle_date": "2018-09-22", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27144", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2011597.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 35570, "clue": "\u201cright wing\u201d letters of [realit]Y [ar]E [no]T.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "YETa", "puzzle_date": "2018-09-22", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27144", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2011597.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 55628, "clue": "answer spelled out by the last letters (\u201cends\u201d) of each word. Somehow always hard to see this type of clue.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "YESESa", "puzzle_date": "2018-04-28", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27018", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1932820.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 11039, "clue": "AS (when) following M (mass) and X (times), the last two letters reversed (reflecting).", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "XMASa", "puzzle_date": "2018-11-24", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27198", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2045072.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 55626, "clue": "this clue, the word order seems wrong too. The English language doesn\u2019t do \u201cobject\u201d \u201csubject\u201d \u201cverb\u201d (as in \u201cA [which] SPIRE secures\u201d), especially when the verb is in the active voice. Looking at some other puzzles during the week, I noticed similar things. Is this a variant of English we might call \u201cSetterlish\u201d? On edit, Kevin's comments makes a good case that if \"A\" is a thing, \"thing\" SPIRE secures could give SPIR(thing)E. Far from obvious, I must say!", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Witha", "puzzle_date": "2018-04-28", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27018", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1932820.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 43674, "clue": "\"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears\" is the first line of that speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar. Act III, scene II.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Wikipediad", "puzzle_date": "2017-03-18", "puzzle_name": "Times Saturday 26670", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1704508.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 48278, "clue": "The phrase \"Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells\" is a generic name used in the United Kingdom for a person, usually with strongly conservative political views, who writes letters to newspapers or the BBC in a tone of moral outrage. \"Disgusted\" is the pseudonym of the supposed letter writer, who is a resident of the stereotypically middle-class town of Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in the south-east of England.", "answer": "T", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Wikipediad", "puzzle_date": "2017-05-27", "puzzle_name": "Times Saturday 26730", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1746789.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 51908, "clue": "An ecoregion is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone. All three of these are either less or greater than an ecosystem. Ecoregions cover relatively large areas of land or water, and contain characteristic, geographically distinct assemblages of natural communities and species.", "answer": "I", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Wikipediad", "puzzle_date": "2017-05-20", "puzzle_name": "Times Saturday 26724", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1742410.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 16685, "clue": "Peter Stuyvesant served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664. The second American clue.", "answer": "D", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Wikipediaa", "puzzle_date": "2017-07-15", "puzzle_name": "Times Saturday 26772", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1776006.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"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": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Wikipediaa", "puzzle_date": "2017-04-01", "puzzle_name": "Times Saturday 26682", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"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": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Wikipediaa", "puzzle_date": "2017-04-01", "puzzle_name": "Times Saturday 26682", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 5071, "clue": "the brass bands play: \"Tidd[e]ly-om-pom-pom!\"", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Wherea", "puzzle_date": "2018-07-28", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27096", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1981841.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 26309, "clue": "Messos\u2019 blue-eyed nymphs delight to rove,", "answer": "T", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Wherea", "puzzle_date": "2021-01-14", "puzzle_name": "27874", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2472343.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 26555, "clue": "h-honeycomb maker briefly turns to? Not to wax (3)", "answer": "EBB", "definition": "Not to wax", "clue_number": "Whatd", "puzzle_date": "2018-08-01", "puzzle_name": "Monthly Club Special 20,214", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1984224.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 34088, "clue": "sounds like (\u201cfor audiobooks\u201d) RIGHTER=more appropriate.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "WRITERa", "puzzle_date": "2019-03-30", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27306", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 55638, "clue": "W (with), I SPY (the game).", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "WISPYa", "puzzle_date": "2018-04-28", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27018", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1932820.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 39931, "clue": "- WIN O = win nothing = \"make no gains at all\"", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "WINOa", "puzzle_date": "2018-06-15", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27,065", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1958785.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 11417, "clue": "cryptic definition, relating to how Miss Muffet reacted to the spider.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "WHEYa", "puzzle_date": "2018-03-24", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 26988", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1914094.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 13543, "clue": "WELL IN [very familiar] with G TON [good | fashion]", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "WELLINGTONa", "puzzle_date": "2018-05-18", "puzzle_name": "Times 27,041", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 58806, "clue": "- 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'", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "WEEPIEa", "puzzle_date": "2018-08-06", "puzzle_name": "Times 27109", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1986608.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"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": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "WAGONa", "puzzle_date": "2016-10-28", "puzzle_name": "Times 26,555", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 39342, "clue": "that is to say producing bulbils or young plants in the flower clusters.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Viviparityd", "puzzle_date": "2018-02-01", "puzzle_name": "Monthly Club Special 20,208", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 11220, "clue": "A - TAMIN{g} [checking, \"short\"] \"cuts\" VIA [using]", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "VITAMINa", "puzzle_date": "2019-11-21", "puzzle_name": "Times 27,515", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2243399.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 48203, "clue": "- a SIGNER-ON is a dole recipient; replace the first letter with V [five]", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "VIGNERONa", "puzzle_date": "2019-09-30", "puzzle_name": "Monthly Club Special 20,228", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2215364.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 36870, "clue": "VERB O{f}TEN.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "VERBOTENa", "puzzle_date": "2017-03-25", "puzzle_name": "Times Saturday 26676", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1708591.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 28543, "clue": "VEND [sell] ACE [brill]. Yet another unknown fish \u2013 there are so many of them!", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "VENDACEa", "puzzle_date": "2017-04-01", "puzzle_name": "Times Saturday 26682", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 11414, "clue": "backwards hidden answer.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "VEERa", "puzzle_date": "2018-03-24", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 26988", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1914094.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"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": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "UNORTHODOXa", "puzzle_date": "2017-04-01", "puzzle_name": "Times Saturday 26682", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 39349, "clue": "- (UK NINTH {fencin}G*) [\"sadly\"]", "answer": "T", "definition": null, "clue_number": "UNKNIGHTd", "puzzle_date": "2018-02-01", "puzzle_name": "Monthly Club Special 20,208", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 48204, "clue": "- FOO{t} in {t}U{n}N{e}L", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "UNFOOLa", "puzzle_date": "2019-09-30", "puzzle_name": "Monthly Club Special 20,228", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2215364.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 45786, "clue": "- GRAD{e} [\"docked\" mark] + UN DER [an indefinite and definite article, translated into French and German respectively]", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "UNDERGRADa", "puzzle_date": "2018-06-02", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1324", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1954265.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 18908, "clue": "\"pay\" is to waterproof a boat by sealing it with tar.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Toa", "puzzle_date": "2019-07-04", "puzzle_name": "Times 27,395", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2167580.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 26310, "clue": "get your own economy sized Tempe, take the L(iberal) out of the TEMPLE place of worship.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Toa", "puzzle_date": "2021-01-14", "puzzle_name": "27874", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2472343.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 35568, "clue": "quibble (and why should today be different?), the RECTO definition should be \u201cpages\u201d, not \u201cleaves\u201d. Each leaf has a RECTO (right) page and a VERSO (left) page. But of course, \u201cpage\u201d or \u201cpages\u201d wouldn\u2019t 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.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Toa", "puzzle_date": "2018-09-22", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27144", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2011597.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 39330, "clue": "disappoint by not keeping an engagement, i.e. to \"stand someone up\", in Scotland.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Toa", "puzzle_date": "2018-02-01", "puzzle_name": "Monthly Club Special 20,208", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 10893, "clue": "you try and do a ton", "answer": "A", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Tilla", "puzzle_date": "2019-06-08", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27366", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2153206.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 27993, "clue": "that are fools, let them use their talents. Well, I have used mine as best I can.", "answer": "A", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Thosed", "puzzle_date": "2020-12-21", "puzzle_name": "Times 27853", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2459213.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 35620, "clue": "place was totally unfamiliar, but at least the wordplay was clear. Turns out to be the capital of Azerbaijan.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Thisd", "puzzle_date": "2017-04-08", "puzzle_name": "Times Saturday 26688", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 39923, "clue": "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.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Thisa", "puzzle_date": "2018-06-15", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27,065", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1958785.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 35617, "clue": "subtleties of UK vs USA may be lost on me here. Don\u2019t the English have bathrooms too? Or perhaps the idea is, Americans say \u201cbathroom\u201d where the English might use \u201cloo\u201d? Does anyone still say \u201cprivy\u201d?", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Thed", "puzzle_date": "2017-04-08", "puzzle_name": "Times Saturday 26688", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 39345, "clue": "sidepiece or post of a door. Quite a crossword when this is the least obscure word.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Thed", "puzzle_date": "2018-02-01", "puzzle_name": "Monthly Club Special 20,208", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 11413, "clue": "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!", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Thea", "puzzle_date": "2018-03-24", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 26988", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1914094.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 28605, "clue": "mountain overlooking Delphi, sacred to Dionysus and Apollo and home of the Muses, as any classicist kno.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Thea", "puzzle_date": "2016-10-28", "puzzle_name": "Times 26,555", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 50978, "clue": "Plantagenet King is any of Edward I, II, or III; I'm not 100% sure that any of them were ever referred to familiarly as \"Ted\".", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Thea", "puzzle_date": "2018-07-06", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic 27,083", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1970809.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 20641, "clue": "born into the world alive", "answer": "I", "definition": null, "clue_number": "That\u2019sa", "puzzle_date": "2017-04-21", "puzzle_name": "TLS Crossword 1169", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1724989.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 28629, "clue": "some pretty heavy petting...", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "That'sa", "puzzle_date": "2016-10-28", "puzzle_name": "Times 26,555", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 43102, "clue": "to those who corrected my cold-ridden misapprehension of the parsing here!", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Thanksd", "puzzle_date": "2019-05-16", "puzzle_name": "Times 27,353", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2141043.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 57355, "clue": "- TWIT + E. The twite is a mountain linnet, I discovered.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "TWITEa", "puzzle_date": "2020-04-09", "puzzle_name": "Times 27,635", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2319188.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 35578, "clue": "(TENT WITH E*). The final E is the ultimate in [styl]E.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "TWENTIETHa", "puzzle_date": "2018-09-22", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27144", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2011597.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 50979, "clue": "JUMP - TRIPLE [a very stiff drink] + JUMP [to start].", "answer": "E", "definition": null, "clue_number": "TRIPLEa", "puzzle_date": "2018-07-06", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic 27,083", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1970809.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 43677, "clue": "Depending on the speaker, may or may not sound like [by the ears] TAUGHT US [\u201cwas our master\u201d].", "answer": "T", "definition": null, "clue_number": "TORTOISEd", "puzzle_date": "2017-03-18", "puzzle_name": "Times Saturday 26670", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1704508.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 36875, "clue": "DIMIT{y} read backwards.", "answer": "E", "definition": null, "clue_number": "TIMIDa", "puzzle_date": "2017-03-25", "puzzle_name": "Times Saturday 26676", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1708591.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 35609, "clue": "TH=final letters of \u201cmust wash\u201d, UNDER=junior, PLUMP=opt for. Never heard the expression, but it\u2019s in Chambers.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "THUNDER-PLUMPa", "puzzle_date": "2017-04-08", "puzzle_name": "Times Saturday 26688", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"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": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "THEa", "puzzle_date": "2021-01-14", "puzzle_name": "27874", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2472343.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 39317, "clue": "- reversed EZR{a} [Pound, perhaps, \"short\", \"over\"] + T [time], \"dividing\" TE TI [(two) notes]", "answer": "A", "definition": null, "clue_number": "TERZETTIa", "puzzle_date": "2018-02-01", "puzzle_name": "Monthly Club Special 20,208", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 11416, "clue": "I YAK = \u201crabbit I\", had inside TERI = every second letter of \u201cThE tRaIn\u201d.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "TERIYAKIa", "puzzle_date": "2018-03-24", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 26988", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1914094.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 5075, "clue": "spelled out by the first letters (\u201cthe faces\u201d) of each word.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "TEMPTa", "puzzle_date": "2018-07-28", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27096", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1981841.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 28911, "clue": "- hidden reversed in {d}UDE LET{hargically}", "answer": "DOWN", "definition": null, "clue_number": "TELEDUa", "puzzle_date": "2018-05-01", "puzzle_name": "Monthly Club Special 20,211", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1935023.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 20647, "clue": "THINGS - T{able} + EATING S [consuming | seconds] about H{our}", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "TEAa", "puzzle_date": "2017-04-21", "puzzle_name": "TLS Crossword 1169", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1724989.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 11221, "clue": "- TAUT [pulled - hard] + ON [leg] + reversed MY [of the setter]. A tautonym is eg Gorilla gorilla, where genus and species name are the same.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "TAUTONYMa", "puzzle_date": "2019-11-21", "puzzle_name": "Times 27,515", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2243399.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 35612, "clue": "Clark Kent with moustache, of course.", "answer": "T", "definition": null, "clue_number": "TASHKENTa", "puzzle_date": "2017-04-08", "puzzle_name": "Times Saturday 26688", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 28606, "clue": "INTO - T.A. [Territorial Army = volunteers] + PINTO [piebald horse]", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "TAPa", "puzzle_date": "2016-10-28", "puzzle_name": "Times 26,555", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 43105, "clue": "- (LIKE A TV*) [\"lunatic\"] \"absorbing\" AT [atmosphere].", "answer": "W", "definition": null, "clue_number": "TALKATIVEd", "puzzle_date": "2019-05-16", "puzzle_name": "Times 27,353", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2141043.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 43085, "clue": "- or alternatively punctuated, t'bar, where a Yorkshireman might go for his pint.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "T-BARa", "puzzle_date": "2019-05-16", "puzzle_name": "Times 27,353", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2141043.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 28903, "clue": "is a Scottish [\"at Holyrood\"] word for indolent, i.e. reluctant to move.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Sweirta", "puzzle_date": "2018-05-01", "puzzle_name": "Monthly Club Special 20,211", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1935023.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 39324, "clue": "relating to oxygen.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Somethinga", "puzzle_date": "2018-02-01", "puzzle_name": "Monthly Club Special 20,208", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 41787, "clue": "- (CITY ENDS A*) [\"loose\"]", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "SYNDICATEa", "puzzle_date": "2017-04-14", "puzzle_name": "Times 26,699", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1720827.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 58803, "clue": "- U[nderrating] in SPINE", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "SUPINEa", "puzzle_date": "2018-08-06", "puzzle_name": "Times 27109", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1986608.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 11418, "clue": "I think this is just a cryptic definition, with the PO in the centre just serving to say how to spell it: with a -PO- rather than a -PPER-.", "answer": "D", "definition": null, "clue_number": "STRIPOGRAMa", "puzzle_date": "2018-03-24", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 26988", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1914094.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 55636, "clue": "double definition. I\u2019ve not heard a goalkeeper called a stopper, but it makes sense.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "STOPPERa", "puzzle_date": "2018-04-28", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27018", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1932820.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 58005, "clue": "PET inside YENS, all backwards (\u201cheading north\u201d).", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "STEPNEYd", "puzzle_date": "2018-08-25", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27120", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1996676.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 41784, "clue": "- STEELE{d} [\"dock\" made hard] to protect P [parking]", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "STEEPLEa", "puzzle_date": "2017-04-14", "puzzle_name": "Times 26,699", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1720827.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 39926, "clue": "- STAND associated with BY [viewpoint; times]", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "STANDBYa", "puzzle_date": "2018-06-15", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27,065", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1958785.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 34076, "clue": "replace the T=time in SPRINTER = \u201cdashing person\u201d by KL, first letters of Known Lady.", "answer": "", "definition": null, "clue_number": "SPRINKLERa", "puzzle_date": "2019-03-30", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27306", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"} {"rowid": 34089, "clue": "OIL=bribe, \u201caccepted by\u201d SPER= (REPS=salesmen \u201creturning\u201d).", "answer": "D", "definition": null, "clue_number": "SPOILERa", "puzzle_date": "2019-03-30", "puzzle_name": "Times Cryptic No 27306", "source_url": "https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2113746.html", "source": "times_xwd_times"}