| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| A children’s novel and TV series about a girl who lives in a residential care home | View Answer |
| A column with symbols and figures, usually near a Pacific coast | View Answer |
| A confusingly named dark fruit paste | View Answer |
| A decisive gun-fight or part of a sporting contest | View Answer |
| A French-based term for a helmet | View Answer |
| A message which is not enciphered is described as ____ | View Answer |
| A name taken from Greek myth for someone who prefers pleasure and luxury to practical matters | View Answer |
| A Titan in Greek myth, the father of Helios and Selene | View Answer |
| A ____ shower has no rain | View Answer |
| Aircraft control surface combining the functions of two better-known control surfaces | View Answer |
| An alphabetical list of pasta types probably ends with these tubes from the south | View Answer |
| An often unstable column of glacial ice | View Answer |
| Beatles song with the line “Ah, look at all the lonely people” | View Answer |
| Before about 1920, an underground chamber or insulated building, possibly in the grounds of a stately home | View Answer |
| Chris Evans first hosted ____ on Channel 4 in 1996 | View Answer |
| Damaging (something) | View Answer |
| Docile cat breed developed in California in the 1960s | View Answer |
| In 1992, Leicester Polytechnic became ____ University | View Answer |
| In a particular sporting context, to make a faulty stroke | View Answer |
| In German, what we once called the “German Ocean” | View Answer |
| In Manet’s A ____, bottles of Bass can be identified | View Answer |
| In the film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, two con men try to swindle an ____ | View Answer |
| In Windows 95, the former File Manager app was replaced by Windows ____ | View Answer |
| Item carried on 1930s “Guinness for strength” posters | View Answer |
| Like Miss Havisham and her home in Great Expectations | View Answer |
| Location of the islets of Langerhans | View Answer |
| Name shared by two of the twelve disciples before one of them received an extra name | View Answer |
| Organisation which gave Vladimir Putin an ID pass in 1985 | View Answer |
| Our style guide warns against confusing “____” and “imply” | View Answer |
| Peregrin ____ is one of the first members of Frodo’s group in The Lord of the Rings | View Answer |
| Philosophical concept linking movement of celestial bodies with music | View Answer |
| Shape made by rotating an ellipse around its minor axis | View Answer |
| Sport in which a road race from London to Brighton was once a major event | View Answer |
| Surname of Miss Ellie and Sue Ellen in an American soap | View Answer |
| Sutherland mountain seen in 1994 stamps using paintings by Prince Charles | View Answer |
| The 1309-76 period when popes lived in Avignon is sometimes called the “____ of the Papacy” | View Answer |
| The debut album of Marvin Lee Aday, aka Meat Loaf | View Answer |
| The nature of Sir Robert Chiltern in a 19th-century play title | View Answer |
| The nature of words like “newspaper” and “litter bin” in a Monty Python sketch | View Answer |
| The only survivor of the Pequod’s sinking in Moby Dick | View Answer |
| The ____ flows through Ukraine, Moldova and Ukraine again | View Answer |
| This German island was British territory from 1807 to 1890 | View Answer |
| To put the ____ on something is to end it | View Answer |
| Wild feline living in alpine and forest regions in two continents | View Answer |
| ____ appeared in early episodes of The Goon Show and later made a puppet-based children’s TV series | View Answer |
| “Give [a] baby a fair chance, and if it doesn’t do something it ___ to a doctor should be called in at once” (Jerome K Jerome) | View Answer |
| “Sainsbury’s apologises for ____ faux pas in Cornwall” (Times headline in 2021) | View Answer |
| “Too often the Ukrainian issue is ____ as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West.” (Henry Kissinger) | View Answer |
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Here's how it works: Simply enter in the crossword clue in the first box. Example ("Fruit type"). In the second box enter in the PATTERN of letters in your puzzle. Use "?" for unknown letters. Example ("b???n?" Meaning you already know the letters of two squares of a 7 letter word. Now click on Solve! Viola! you can see the answers given to known crossword clues. You can also enter "b3n1" with the numbers indicating how many unknown letters in place. Other scenarios: If you know none of the letters in the answer, but know its a 4 letter word, you would enter "????" and then click solve. Note it may take longer to solve your clue if you know 0 letters in the word. For fill in the blank clues you can ignore the blank and continue with a space in the clue. For clues that reference another clue number such as 13 across, you can enter that in but will be helpful to have a pattern with more letters for more accurate results.
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