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sunday times 4337

14 a/c 8 letters wild boar blocking friend by curved path , p-----l-. 22 a/c 4-5 play down silly dope's fault_ not acceptable for the top people

siggsy

Times Jumbo 824

52a - Graceful runner ranks alongside one second-rate one --I-I (Alibi?) 47d - Weight that's born by incoming cargo ship -M---T (Impact?) If I'm right - why? If not please tell!

Timessolver

Times Jumbo cryptic 824 42a

Help with 42a please. clue: Horse moving damn badly needed to make ground?(4-4) Have: H - - - / M - N -, Also, is 47d IMPOST? clue: Weight that's born by incoming cargo ship?

PALLASGREEN

imos 616

11a brilliant , top notch - - r - - - i - 13a performed surgically - - e - - - e - 21a fanciful , romantic - - e - m - 24a allocation , share - - t - o - 3d substantial , firm - o - c - e - e 6d...

Bogtrotter

Times Jumbo 824

Help please, stuck on last one. 25d King with acceptable hold on nation: k?w?i? Looks like Kuwait, but I can't see why. Any help gratefully received.

Timessolver

Jumbo 824 times 2 clues

13d Abbey town south of Oxford (10). What do other people think this is? I live in a nearby county & have never noticed any such town!

mugrat

mos sir lancelot

24a given smooth glossy coating (9) e-a-e-l-d

Timessolver

Times 24,271

17d clue: Author's latest on list, about to move up (9). Answer turns out to be 'generator' I think, and I can make out 'rota' going up, or 'genera' going downwards, and going 'about TO' with last...

Timessolver

Bizarrely, this comes from Sunday Times Christmas crossword of 2006 (discovered among some papers). All done now, but 16a clue is: I travel with Santa, say, and belt around the Arctic? (3-5) Answer is...

Timessolver

Times Jumbo 821

44a PM recalling current King's instincts (8). I can see that the answer 'Disraeli' is reversing Lear's id, but how do we get the other 'i'? 53a Country area I found further west in old kingdom(7). Is...

MNM

Times jumbo 821

Why is 30a itemised

Timessolver

Times Jumbo 820

Puzzled about 29d. Clue: Sex turning up in sensual festive occasion(8) Answer is 'carnival' i.e. 'carnal' for 'sensual' with (I think) VI (six) enclosed & 'turning up'. So is 'sex' a typo? Or am I...

Timessolver

Times 24,258

6d European politician has links with dead men (7) Emp + ties. I can see that it is 'empties' and I've heard the barman ask if these bottles (the empties) are 'dead' - but 'dead men'? Has anyone heard...

Timessolver

Sunday Times 4334

1d Averse, in the establishment, to dress up. Can anyone see why the answer to 1d is CLOTHE? I can see that 'loth' in the middle means 'averse'; where do C and E come in? Help please . . .

Timessolver

Times 24,257

Any help with explaining why the answer to 23a is 'taste' please? Clue: Discrimination, say, first taken to heart(5). I can see that the first letter of 'say' is taken to the heart of the answer - but...

jeremybrink

London Drinker June

just one to go and the 5 letter word is"...over unknown food". It is ?a?t? - any reason it should be pasta? The previous clue reads "Composer in tangle......." (...

Timessolver

Times 24,247

Puzzled about the wordplay on these - any help please? 1d is 'tabu'. How is this reached from 'Heartless killer surfacing is ostracised'? I can see 'tabu' = 'ostracised' but where's the heartless...