Tag: ABANDON
- The Telegraph – QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 29,183 – Oct 16 2019 ()
Clues Answers Accompanies ESCORTS Beat; currency POUND Call to mind (memories) EVOKE Charge (of crime) ACCUSE Confidential matters SECRETS Donors BENEFACTORS Entire WHOLE Forsake ABANDON Fully-grown ADULT Go in ENTER Hesitate PAUSE Large vase URN Launders WASHES Link TIE Male duck DRAKE Merit DESERVE Mineral deposit ORE Mistakes ERRORS Needless UNNECESSARY Personal photo SELFIE Police […]
- Thomas Joseph – King Feature Syndicate – Jul 15 2019 ()
Clues Answers ‘My Fair Lady’ heroine ELIZA ‘Paradise Lost’ figure SATAN Alphabet unit LETTER Appears TURNSUP Biol. or geol SCI Church sight ALTAR Climber’s descent RAPPEL Clothing brand LABEL Day light SUN Defeatist’s words ICANT Dine late SUP Dr. Seuss’s environmental character LORAX Explosion BLAST Flying formation ECHELON Follow the outline of TRACE From the […]
- The Telegraph – Quick – Aug 21 2018 ()
Clues Answers Accomplishment FEAT Buccaneer PIRATE Evade ELUDE Excess SURFEIT Finish END Fluctuate SEESAW Gratuity TIP Held in reserve ONICE Implement TOOL Insectivorous bird BEEEATER Neat TIDY Newt EFT One who makes others feel happy; beam RAYOFSUNSHINE Pile HEAP Public house BAR Quarry PREY Quick-witted SHARP Refuge ASYLUM Remove one’s grip LEAVEGO Set aside; reticent […]
- The Guardian – Cryptic crossword No 27,593 – Aug 20 2018 ()
Clues Answers … propose wild guess, got nothing to lose SUGGEST 1 + 1? Without detection, I give up … ABANDON Abbot puts on shirt and tie TRUSS Annoyed that shirt’s missing from counterfeit Man U strip UPINARMS Ant’s partner fibbed about competition’s close being avoided DECLINED Back massage by Norse causes skin injury BURN […]
- Irish Times (Simplex) – Aug 11 2018 ()
Clues Answers A return to good health RECOVERY Actual, existing REAL Brook, runnel STREAM Container for magnetic tape CASSETTE Country and bird TURKEY Disclose, make known REVEAL Donning clothes DRESSING Emissary, courier MESSENGER Epistle, missive LETTER Eruptions of the skin RASHES Feeling hopeless DESPERATE Feeling of ill will ANIMOSITY Fix a rig up for the […]
- The Guardian – Cryptic crossword No 27,565 – Jul 18 2018 ()
Clues Answers A word like ‘logo-mines’, perhaps? NEOLOGISM Appreciated by tender kissers LIPBALM Band knocking back drink, comprehending nothing TROOP Blue plant displaying shoot high up SKYROCKET Brass concert will have this strand ABANDON Cellist possibly ushering in second tanker BOWSER City lines: muggins has to go back ODESSA Come on, tell me what to […]
- Thomas Joseph – King Feature Syndicate – Jul 12 2018 ()
Clues Answers ‘Inka Dinka Doo’ singer DURANTE ‘Willard’ sequel BEN Angry look GLARE Bothers IRKS Broadcast AIR Campout sights TENTS Citrus hybrid TANGELO Closed ENDED Copy tapes DUB Decorate ADORN Demand ASK Extended LONG Eyelashes CILIA Flee to marry ELOPE Foolish DAFT Furrow RUT Game quests SAFARIS Gym unit REP Had a snack ATE Hate […]
- The Sun – Two Speed – May 30 2018 ()
Clues Answers Airborne troop PARA Amorphous SHAPELESS Army rank CORPORAL Brown shade as pie cooked SEPIA Bucket PAIL Call for some buttermilk TERM Capital ditching old religious ceremony SACRAMENT Catholic ritual high mass Chopped up softer wood FOREST Conclude SURMISE Conscious AWAKE Cupidity AVARICE Donkey ASS Evergreen FIR Expert supporting blokes in danger MENACE Fool […]
- The Sun – Two Speed – Apr 11 2018 ()
Clues Answers Actor Garbo madly beginning to tease BOGART Best artist in the aristocracy? top-drawer Boat’s captain right towards stern CRAFT Camel train CARAVAN Cardinal number ONE Catty remark about commercial grassland MEADOW Commotion DIN Consequence OUTCOME Crashing into beast like mule OBSTINATE Croatian ripped wet weather gear RAINCOAT Croon etc creating classical piece CONCERTO […]
- New York Times – Apr 8 2018 ()
Clues Answers ‘Frida’ star Hayek SALMA ‘High Hopes’ lyricist Sammy CAHN ‘How revolting!’ YECCH ‘Law & Order’ actor Jerry ORBACH ‘Life Itself’ memoirist Roger EBERT ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ star Jon HEDER ‘The Martian’ star DAMON 1987 action film originally given an X rating for violence ROBOCOP According to PER Actor’s last line, maybe CUE Aids in […]
- The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 26995 March 26 2018 ()
The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 26995 Clues Answers Abroad, one loved touring northern plain UNADORNED After time, about to be knocking on creature’s home BIRDCAGE Beginning to miss revelry and excitement AROUSAL Catty cardinal supporting Pope LEONINE Clean backless dress for theatre SCRUB Cold? The opposite wasn’t true CHEATED Demand to settle […]