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rowid | clue ▼ | answer | definition | clue_number | puzzle_date | puzzle_name | source_url | source |
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5314 | "A powerful feller!" Bond observed (8) | CHAINSAW | A powerful feller | 11a | 2016-05-18 | Quick Cryptic 572 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1522933.html | times_xwd_times |
46815 | "All for your ____, We are not here" (M.N.Dream) (7) | DELIGHT | 29a | 2018-04-18 | Times 230365 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1927928.html | times_xwd_times | |
82288 | "Are you still worth a fortune?" (6,8) | LOADED QUESTION | Are you still worth a fortune? | 26d | 2016-10-02 | Jumbo 1227 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1603995.html | times_xwd_times |
2822 | "Blue sky", said pirate (7) | CORSAIR | pirate | 4d | 2017-06-11 | Sunday Times 4749 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1755597.html | times_xwd_times |
92975 | "Cicero is an orator first and foremost!" Roman cheers (4) | CIAO | Roman cheers | 29a | 2021-08-07 | Times Cryptic Jumbo 1509 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2585281.html | times_xwd_times |
54517 | "Discontented" reserve officer commanding dog to come back (7) | REOCCUR | 6d | 2018-04-21 | Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1317 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1929231.html | times_xwd_times | |
43903 | "Do a Hillary Clinton" - don't attend summit (8) | MISSPEAK | Do a Hillary Clinton | 17a | 2016-03-06 | Sunday Times 4683 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1479816.html | times_xwd_times |
43674 | "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. | Wikipediad | 2017-03-18 | Times Saturday 26670 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1704508.html | times_xwd_times | ||
80352 | "Green Mountain Record Company" spoken of in Asian city (10) | RAWALPINDI | Asian city | 4a | 2020-12-12 | Times Cryptic Jumbo 1470 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2454831.html | times_xwd_times |
50869 | "Gutsy" batting twice bagging international a half-century (10) | INTESTINAL | Gutsy | 27a | 2019-10-17 | Times 27484 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2224103.html | times_xwd_times |
62907 | "I'd like a little one" learner admitted, to my surprise (10) | IMPROBABLY | to my surprise | 13d | 2016-10-21 | Times 26,549 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1614896.html | times_xwd_times |
63481 | "Let" called out for all to hear (5) | ALOUD | for all to hear | 20d | 2017-09-01 | Times 26,819 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1803458.html | times_xwd_times |
1471 | "Look closely" I shout aloud (7) | EYEBALL | Look closely | 18d | 2015-11-29 | Sunday Times 4669 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1425814.html | times_xwd_times |
8709 | "Loos" misread in translation as more exclusive facilities? (6,5) | LADIES ROOMS | more exclusive facilities? | 55a | 2020-05-01 | Times Cryptic Jumbo 1434 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2331190.html | times_xwd_times |
17335 | "Man is machine" — absurd old heresy? (12) | MANICHEANISM | old heresy | 8d | 2018-04-22 | Mephisto 3007 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1929897.html | times_xwd_times |
58437 | "Material Girl"? (9) | GEORGETTE | Material /Girl | 13d | 2018-05-14 | Times 27037 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1941276.html | times_xwd_times |
65133 | "May there be no ____ of farewell" (Tennyson) (7) | SADNESS | 8d | 2018-05-16 | Times 010477 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1942532.html | times_xwd_times | |
13810 | "Message received", say men turning right (5) | ROGER | Message received | 6a | 2017-11-18 | Times Cryptic No 26880 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1845048.html | times_xwd_times |
37704 | "More rhubarb", might one say? (5) | EXTRA | More | 22d | 2017-10-29 | Sunday Times 4769 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1834089.html | times_xwd_times |
4314 | "Read it and weep!", cries politician (3,5) | SOB STORY | "Read it and weep!" | 39a | 2021-05-22 | Times Cryptic Jumbo 1497 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2541732.html | times_xwd_times |
19857 | "Spin" is greatly embroidered line put out (6) | GYRATE | Spin | 24d | 2018-02-25 | Mephisto 2999 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1900041.html | times_xwd_times |
34969 | "The damp, -- -soaked soil is sick with the teeming life of a hundred years" (Kipling) (8) | DRAINAGE | 17d | 2017-05-18 | TLS Crossword 1173 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1741665.html | times_xwd_times | |
60195 | "Town" planes try to bomb | PORT STANLEY | 10a | 2019-02-24 | Sunday Times 4838 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2095316.html | times_xwd_times | |
34966 | "We got to ... Heidelberg before the night --" (Mark Twain) (4,4) | SHUT DOWN | 9d | 2017-05-18 | TLS Crossword 1173 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1741665.html | times_xwd_times | |
43082 | "nut" is another word for the printing "en" (that's half of an "em"). | Aa | 2019-05-16 | Times 27,353 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2141043.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 | ||
81439 | & 10 Sky watcher intercepts gale force winds [two-word answer] (10) | REFRACTING | Sky watcher | 3a | 2019-10-26 | Sunday Times Cryptic No 4873, | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2229152.html | times_xwd_times |
76774 | & 18A. | D | 3d | 2015-11-15 | Sunday Times 4667 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1417659.html | times_xwd_times | |
44332 | & 22. Reserve from among girl’s quite eccentric collection of Portuguese person’s prose [Three-word answer] (4,2) | BOOK OF DISQUIET T | collection of Portuguese person’s prose | 21a | 2016-07-29 | TLS Crossword 1133 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1565738.html | times_xwd_times |
81451 | & 27 Cannot give decisions suffering this? [two-word answer] (9) | COGNITIVE | Cannot give decisions suffering this? | 26a | 2019-10-26 | Sunday Times Cryptic No 4873, | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2229152.html | times_xwd_times |
44329 | & 7. Springsteen song inspired by Rechy novel? [Three-word answer] (4) | CITY OF NIGHT | Springsteen song /Rechy novel | 15a | 2016-07-29 | TLS Crossword 1133 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1565738.html | times_xwd_times |
73583 | 'Blasted feminists are OTT' — government official (8,2,5) | MINISTER OF STATE | government official | 4d | 2015-12-12 | Saturday Times 26274 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1432924.html | times_xwd_times |
75916 | 'Flexible friend' gets millions spent — in such a manner? (9) | LIBERALLY | 16d | 2017-10-23 | Times 26863 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1831336.html | times_xwd_times | |
7922 | 'Free NHS' — term abused in regeneration? (11) | REFRESHMENT | regeneration | 5d | 2016-06-12 | Jumbo 1210 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1538524.html | times_xwd_times |
73577 | 'Get up, having drunk tea' put in old words (8) | ARCHAISE | put in old words | 25a | 2015-12-12 | Saturday Times 26274 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1432924.html | times_xwd_times |
64527 | 'Gorblimey trousers' back to front with half missing (7) | STREWTH | Gorblimey | 44a | 2018-03-10 | Jumbo 1310 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1907085.html | times_xwd_times |
56004 | 'It's more risky,' I cried out (6) | DICIER | It's more risky | 4d | 2014-06-23 | Quick Cryptic 76 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1135807.html | times_xwd_times |
48279 | 'La couleur de la mer' in translation (7) | EMERALD | 'La couleur de la mer' in translation | 4d | 2017-05-27 | Times Saturday 26730 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1746789.html | times_xwd_times |
44393 | 'Not the time before Christ' - well-known saying (5) | ADAGE | well-known saying | 22a | 2015-08-12 | Quick Cryptic 372 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1363863.html | times_xwd_times |
73075 | 'Shamrock', losing four letters, leaves 'sham'? (4) | MOCK | 'sham' | 1d | 2015-10-03 | Saturday Times 26214 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1393678.html | times_xwd_times |
49375 | 'Shiner' in two languages? (6,6) | FRENCH POLISH | Shiner | 1a | 2015-08-17 | Quick Cryptic 375 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1366380.html | times_xwd_times |
88675 | 'Swell' certainly describes 'good' (5) | SURGE | 'Swell' | 23a | 2015-06-13 | Saturday Times 26118 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1331344.html | times_xwd_times |
57676 | 'T isn't corrupt (5) | TAINT | 7d | 2018-02-06 | Times Cryptic 26954 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1890447.html | times_xwd_times | |
20200 | 'Tigers', men trained for army units (9) | REGIMENTS | army units | 2d | 2017-05-05 | Times 26,717 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1734184.html | times_xwd_times |
69905 | 'Tis suggested, don’t go to bed (3,2) | SIT UP | don’t go to bed | 18d | 2017-11-03 | Quick Cryptic 954 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1837454.html | times_xwd_times |
15612 | 'Very hot' and 'in the news' is about right (8) | TROPICAL | Very hot | 7d | 2016-06-13 | Quick Cryptic 590 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1538695.html | times_xwd_times |
44880 | 'ampshire town as before (5) | AVANT | as before | 8d | 2019-03-24 | Mephisto 3055 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2110369.html | times_xwd_times |
55464 | 'eavenly sandwiches green, clearly! (7) | OVERTLY | clearly | 12d | 2016-11-26 | Jumbo 1235 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1636740.html | times_xwd_times |
11040 | (AD TORN OPEN*). | D | PTERANODONa | 2018-11-24 | Times Cryptic No 27198 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2045072.html | times_xwd_times | |
41213 | (Ad)dressing down? (7-2) | TALKING TO | (Ad)dressing down | 80a | 2020-02-15 | Jumbo 1423 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2289759.html | times_xwd_times |
36869 | (ENABLES MC*). I had some doubt about which end of this clue was the anagram indicator, and which the definition! | SEMBLANCEa | 2017-03-25 | Times Saturday 26676 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1708591.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 | ||
13554 | (MINT CREATE*) ["possibility for..."] | DOWN | REMITTANCEa | 2018-05-18 | Times 27,041 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1943595.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 | ||
28544 | (PLAY ROMEO N{eglecting}*) | LAMPOONERYa | 2017-04-01 | Times Saturday 26682 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1713172.html | times_xwd_times | ||
55634 | (POSE*) inside NIECE. The definition being the bridge of a pair of spectacles, for example. Nice. | NOSEPIECEa | 2018-04-28 | Times Cryptic No 27018 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1932820.html | times_xwd_times | ||
55627 | (ROADS*) around N for north and W for west. | ONWARDSa | 2018-04-28 | Times Cryptic No 27018 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1932820.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35578 | (TENT WITH E*). The final E is the ultimate in [styl]E. | TWENTIETHa | 2018-09-22 | Times Cryptic No 27144 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2011597.html | times_xwd_times | ||
35623 | (THE GENIE*). Lovely clue. | EIGHTEENd | 2017-04-08 | Times Saturday 26688 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1717260.html | times_xwd_times | ||
54577 | - "Flay" {p}ASSED O{n} [died], then reverse it | ODESSAa | 2019-07-25 | Times 27,413 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2178641.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39343 | - (CD GOT LAZYY*) ["remastering..."] | H | ZYGODACTYLd | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html | times_xwd_times | |
41787 | - (CITY ENDS A*) ["loose"] | SYNDICATEa | 2017-04-14 | Times 26,699 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1720827.html | times_xwd_times | ||
43105 | - (LIKE A TV*) ["lunatic"] "absorbing" AT [atmosphere]. | W | TALKATIVEd | 2019-05-16 | Times 27,353 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2141043.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 | ||
2479 | - (MEETING NOT*) ["for reorganising"] | MIGNONETTEa | 2018-04-06 | Times 27,005 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1920959.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 | ||
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 | ||
45784 | - (STRIVE*) ["to be trained"] + OR [if not] | SERVITORa | 2018-06-02 | Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1324 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1954265.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39934 | - (THE E{nglish} LADY*) ["trembling"] | DOWN | HEATEDLYa | 2018-06-15 | Times Cryptic No 27,065 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1958785.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 | ||
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 | ||
39349 | - (UK NINTH {fencin}G*) ["sadly"] | T | UNKNIGHTd | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.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 | ||
51585 | - A + M + BASS + A + DRESS (shift) | AMBASSADRESSa | 2018-01-08 | Times 26929 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1874457.html | times_xwd_times | ||
58808 | - A IS in MS (writing as manuscript); nice definition, 'amiss' as in 'What's up, mate?' | AMISSa | 2018-08-06 | Times 27109 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1986608.html | times_xwd_times | ||
48209 | - A L [a | Liberal] + reversed IOM GALA [Peel's celebration perhaps]. Peel being a Manx town you know. | ALALAGMOIa | 2019-09-30 | Monthly Club Special 20,228 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2215364.html | times_xwd_times | ||
43086 | - A PIT [a mine] "drilling" CU LATE [copper | overdue]. | I | CAPITULATEa | 2019-05-16 | Times 27,353 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2141043.html | times_xwd_times | |
54585 | - A1 RED + ALE [excellent | wine + beer] | AIREDALEa | 2019-07-25 | Times 27,413 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2178641.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 | ||
39334 | - ADUL{t} ["brief" possibly pornographic] + ARIA [song] | A | ADULARIAd | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.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 | ||
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 | ||
43771 | - B REME [British | engineers] "commandeering" I [one] | REME | BIREMEa | 2016-09-30 | Times 26,531 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1602575.html | times_xwd_times | |
28607 | - BENT [with crook] + HAM [bad actor]. Jeremy Bentham the utilitarian and ongoing resident of a cupboard in UCL. | T | BENTHAMa | 2016-10-28 | Times 26,555 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1619474.html | times_xwd_times | |
45792 | - CAT [spiteful woman] gets A STROPHE [a verse] | A | CATASTROPHEa | 2018-06-02 | Times Cryptic Jumbo No 1324 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1954265.html | times_xwd_times | |
48210 | - CHI{nt}Z [material, minus NT = books] + Z [unknown] | CHIZZa | 2019-09-30 | Monthly Club Special 20,228 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2215364.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 | ||
41788 | - COD GER{man} [fake | European "MAN's left"] | CODGERa | 2017-04-14 | Times 26,699 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1720827.html | times_xwd_times | ||
11223 | - COL [depression] and ADO [fuss], with OR [men] "getting in" | DOWN | COLORADOa | 2019-11-21 | Times 27,515 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2243399.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 | ||
57354 | - C{ollage} + LIMB. I put this in straight away then took it out because I thought "border" was LIMN not LIMB. But apparently a "limb" can be the border of e.g. the sun or a sextant. Who, he asked somewhat rhetorically, knew? | CLIMBa | 2020-04-09 | Times 27,635 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/2319188.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 | ||
41789 | - DEED [act] to keep JE{C}T ["carbon-bearing" coal] | D | DEJECTEDa | 2017-04-14 | Times 26,699 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1720827.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 | ||
58807 | - DO (deceive) CO in VET | DOVECOTa | 2018-08-06 | Times 27109 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1986608.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 | ||
43770 | - DULL [gloomy] "about" ERR reversed [sin "in retrospect"] | DURRELLa | 2016-09-30 | Times 26,531 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1602575.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 | ||
58801 | - EG in SUE. The extended non-literal meaning of segue constitutes one of my least favourite words. Others in the pantheon include egregious, feckless, cognitive dissonance and passive aggressive. | SEGUEa | 2018-08-06 | Times 27109 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1986608.html | times_xwd_times | ||
39328 | - EH A{n}G{r}Y [what? | "regularly" angry] "hosts" OP [work] on X [by] | E | EXOPHAGYa | 2018-02-01 | Monthly Club Special 20,208 | https://times-xwd-times.livejournal.com/1887836.html | times_xwd_times |
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