Clues Answers 50 percent with time for female in end HALT Abandon unproductive area DESERT Bombastic speech, extremely rich, recalled rote initially is cringeworthy RHETORIC Bound to be referring to year of particular type LEAP Cross, stopping by, introspective BROODY Difficult being merry TIGHT ...
Clues Answers A second girl’s turned set on ASSAILED Agent runs after rent? BROKER Article by a couple of boys eclipses what one puts in the paper personal ad Blame screen for distorting likeness RESEMBLANCE Congratulatory gesture one way to make friends? BACKSLAP Country ...
Clues Answers A brief hearing in the courts once ATRIA A new piece of advice in respect of hors d’oeuvre ANTIPASTO Bad season for children OFFSPRING Conditions originally ideal for skiing IFS Drive in Mercedes passing elegant Lotus first of all IMPEL Dubious activity ...
Clues Answers Ask to box good fighter, turning up to prevent cheating INVIGILATE Brought up-to-date wine plugged by European tax-free? RENOVATED Colourful bird from which bank of Liffey? LORY Dissolute rake seized by school head — odd character! freakishness Eastender’s ashamed, inhabiting urban area ...
Clues Answers Applauded on leaving, exhausted clapped out Catch parent out ENTRAP Change rope with top sliced off ALTER Chilean surprisingly screens commercial for Mexican dish ENCHILADA Cleaner words a pope used soap powder Fake ID general set straight REALIGNED First kitty up-ended TOP ...
Clues Answers A fairy to quarrel endlessly? It could be the sherry! APERITIF Big bird to be unsteady, mostly ROC Craftspeople needing skill if joining top decorators ARTIFICERS Creative impulse of a female, calm American AFFLATUS Criticise act to sell multiple raffle tickets? tear ...
Clues Answers 50 in 500 sheets identifying sphere of action REALM A number of signs to identify old Ford car ZODIAC A piano expert, playing allegro? APACE Bank reduced levies, avoiding initial easing RELAXATION Computer device offering verse in minutes? MODEM Hard fruit served ...
Clues Answers Be closely involved in short treatise about English INTERACT Being physically fit, filled with energy in the meantime INTERIM Brace of small fish, not old STRUT Caliban upset about new man-eater? CANNIBAL End Ptolemy’s shifting movement of eg troops DEPLOYMENT English National ...
Clues Answers Aristocrats, small number moved by current sign NOBLEWOMEN Bracing air a person found round most of animal park OZONE Brightness shown by English in old Welsh county briefly GLEAM Celebrate wildly, being suitable for putting up erectable Celebrity using half of capital ...
Clues Answers Almond fanatic? NUT Be caught within one mile: fool! IMBECILE Copy in Home Counties writer SCRIBE Cut the grass three times THRICE Dance on one leg? HOP Destroys gains SPOILS Fruit in fridges, oddly FIGS Given third class ranking, and boxed CRATED ...
Clues Answers Almost take top off European sports accessory ski pole Auntie’s book on queen, perhaps BEEB Bank robber is pretty Scottish BONNIE Close concealed bags I’m thinking HUMID Composer not at home with one idol worshipper PAGAN Go around Australia with a philosopher ...
Clues Answers “Down” different initially, while going up SAD America not prepared for culinary technique MACERATION Beat that! Hurdler’s run over bus, first of all THROB Bullfighter felt endless love MATADOR Coat on back of plump actor PLAYER Correct people nailed by journalist EMEND ...
Clues Answers A natter with MP about accommodation APARTMENT A number having wage cut by half in Bury INTEGER Abandoning Charlie, crowd heading in the right direction on course Complain anew about English PC POLICEMAN Conceited cities gloat appallingly EGOTISTICAL Decide on artist to ...
Clues Answers A hundred and one restrictions in places like Leeds CITIES Appeal of domestic cleaner, little maiden CHARM Be a girl, disguised in nativity play role? GABRIEL Boy eating a vegetable BEAN Cain’s brother, one with a shrub ABELIA Caught fibres in items ...
Clues Answers “Fancy beer,” I crow, “runs in my place for making it” MICROBREWERY £25, including fees returned by Mike Carroll? PSEUDONYM A cry for help about worst poisonous substance ASBESTOS A youngster rejected fame without disagreement as one man Alfred picked up expression ...