Tag: South American

  • The Times – Concise – Times Concise No 8115 November 6 2019

    The Times – Concise – Times Concise No 8115 Clues Answers Bear witness (to) ATTEST Classical performance area AMPHITHEATRE Enquires; requests ASKS Fearful, anxious APPREHENSIVE Fine spray AEROSOL Fleshy appendage EARLOBE Foreign ALIEN Heavenly event lunar eclipse Himalayan native SHERPA Innocent, beautiful ANGELIC Japanese dish SUSHI Latin American dance cha-cha Low platform DAIS Match; at […]

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  • Irish Times (Simplex) – Oct 25 2019

    Clues Answers A mixed drink as appetiser COCKTAIL Association of sports teams LEAGUE Carved or cast figure STATUE Consolation, comfort SOLACE Container for salt CELLAR Converting fibres into yarn SPINNING Dark fine-grained volcanic rock BASALT Destroyed completely WIPEDOUT Display of confidence or daring, often boastful and insincere BRAVADO Disregards a law VIOLATES Excessive fatness OBESITY […]

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  • Irish Times (Crosaire) – Sep 21 2019

    Clues Answers A fair amount of the mink in new coat is fairly small ATOMIC A regiment was in Switzerland with motorised unit synonymous with cleansing CARWASH A sample of the football gear popular with all sides today SHORTS Absolutely not about the end of summer in the country NORWAY Animal taken from Malaysian state […]

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  • The Telegraph – CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 29,158 – Sep 17 2019

    Clues Answers Boys grabbing pet’s front or back SPONSOR Change to incomes __ one studies them ECONOMIST Current yen for nothing __ to be expected TYPICAL District Attorney turned up with glove, and editor confessed ADMITTED Diver tries to avoid this headline story SPLASH Doctor in South American country with November issue CHILDREN European shy, […]

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  • The Guardian – Quick crossword No 15,367 – Aug 8 2019

    Clues Answers (Fur of) a South American rodent COYPU American car AUTOMOBILE An official language of Sri Lanka TAMIL Bloodshed CARNAGE Designed to protect from cold THERMAL Distant ALOOF Expectorate SPIT Galosh OVERSHOE Give it everything BUSTAGUT Grant entry LETIN HB writer? PENCIL High bar jumper POLEVAULTER Hit hard SLAM Neat TRIM One-horned creature UNICORN […]

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  • Irish Times (Crosaire) – Jul 16 2019

    Clues Answers 13 across won’t work in soulless place GHOSTTOWN A pair of journalists got into the computer business HACKED Anonymously and illicitly copy popular review dividing teachers INCOGNITO Benefit to bank? That’s one for the books! PROFITMARGIN Blame oneself for losing the head with flighty type EGRET Border at the end of 14 across […]

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  • The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27403 July 15 2019

    The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27403 Clues Answers African in old party, rather upstanding LIBYAN All, for example, hairline fractures? EVERYTHING Between two rivers, what was that German region? RUHR Boarding towards rear of ship, look up ALOFT Bombardment, after withdrawal of artillery, lighter perhaps? BARGE Boss is a virile chap STUD […]

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  • The Times – Concise – Times Concise No 7985 June 7 2019

    The Times – Concise – Times Concise No 7985 Clues Answers Against the law ILLEGAL Betting ratio ODDS Bright yellow spice TURMERIC Californian city Los Angeles Dejected, morose GLUM Effusive person GUSHER Eg, Riga natives LATVIANS Extremities ENDS Greased; drunk OILED Hidden character faults feet of clay Hot wind from North Africa SIROCCO Iron particles […]

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  • The Guardian – Quick crossword No 15,310 – Jun 2 2019

    Clues Answers Author of Peer Gynt IBSEN Band of warriors COHORT California desert resort PALMSPRINGS Canadian territory, famed for the 1897 gold rush YUKON Charlie Parker’s ‘horn’? SAXOPHONE Delicate handling of a situation FINESSE Get rid of AXE Greenhouse gas produced by cows METHANE Hard durable wood of a deciduous tree OAK Heath or Hughes? […]

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  • The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1363 May 30 2019

    The Times – Cryptic – Times Quick Cryptic No 1363 Clues Answers Artist, detained outside, produces trumpet HERALD Belief in Jane Austen’s work PERSUASION Compiler is ready __ solver reportedly unprepared IMPROMPTU Cross river shortly after two vessels CANTANKEROUS Disturbance curtailed in South American city RIO Eccentric man adored group of stars ANDROMEDA European in […]

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  • The Guardian – Quick crossword No 15,307 – May 29 2019

    Clues Answers Animal in its second 12 months YEARLING Annual US horse race for three-year-olds KENTUCKYDERBY Arranged neatly TIDY Ceramic ware POTTERY Chinese delicacy BIRDSNESTSOUP Clever device to attract attention GIMMICK Coagulated blood from a wound GORE Commonly designated SOCALLED Down in the mouth DEJECTED Female domestic servant MAID Gearing that converts rotary to reciprocating […]

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  • Newsday.com – May 26 2019

    Clues Answers ”Am not!” reply ARESO ”NFL Live” airer ESPN ”No more for me, thanks” IMGOOD ”Steady as __ goes” SHE ”You said it!” AMEN ’20s or ’30s DECADE Actress Rooney __ MARA Algerian port ORAN Angry state IRE Artist’s board PALETTE Author Dinesen ISAK Battleship designation USS Beehive State athlete UTE Big commotion HOOHA […]

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