Search Results for: see 20 down

1-across – Gems on person’s garment ripped in rumpy pumpy? : BODICE

4-across – We’re told one like Daniel returns : PROFIT

9-across – Ring with news in current term : BUZZ

10-across – It’s again demonstrable to be worthy of censure : REPROVABLE

11-across – How to generate no reason to get excited : TURNON

12-across – What detains Dickens hero before every realisation : EPIPHANY

13-across – Where some journalists work briefly, then : ATTHETIME

15-across – See 16 : CATS

16-across – Police seizing unknown pet apes : COPY

17-across – Serious measure of drink after fun in Ireland : CRACKDOWN

21-across – School clothing always very hot : FEVERISH

22-across – Fruit boxes drip in this case : DATIVE

24-across – Way to get caned in funky performance : BREAKDANCE

25-across – See 9 : WORD

26-across – Boycott, say, Frenchman rejected after work : OPENER

27-across – Stone remains, article clutched in both hands : ASHLAR

1-down – Nose in fight broken by that Parisian : BOUQUET

2-down – Number gathering on the way to enlightenment? : DOZEN

3-down – Regal item soldiers put on individual in court : CORONET

5-down – Fine: yours truly cuts eggs for a starter : ROOKIE

6-down – Learner’s aid in Ferrari, say, beginning to drive : FLASHCARD

7-down – Storybooks and special gifts : TALENTS

8-down – Driver inclined to career as drug trafficker : SPEEDMERCHANT

14-down – Put in dash of neat rum husband found in promotion at first : HYPHENATE

16-down – Toast, one round with topping of egg on : CHEERIO

18-down – Scroungers and rotters holding what’s on plate up : CADGERS

19-down – Western state ruler, one like Hamlet? : WAVERER

20-down – Porridge that is part of course done well : BIRDIE

23-down – Pull on earl’s coat, which is drier : TOWEL

8-across – In this dish, a warm and meaty food : SHAWARMA

9-across – Furious attack to secure bridgehead : RABID

10-across – Steer clear of street assembly: anyhow, apparently all vacated : STAY

11-across – President Assad’s first revolution is nothing special : PEDESTRIAN

12-across – Wretched ends to hike up Alps or Fuji? : APPLES

14-across – New designer is gender fluid and passive : RESIGNED

15-across – Special care package for the man’s delusion : CHIMERA

17-across – American 25 sent back containing 22 down, say — these are different : WALNUTS

20-across – Tracey and Jean regularly before church cardinal : EMINENCE

22-across – Stalks no bit parts celebrity : CELERY

23-across – Type of plum pudding finish is involved once more : GREENGAGES

24-across – Two fifths of Chardonnay, a half of coke and a quarter of alcopops needed for barbecue : CHAR

25-across – See 4 : SALAD

26-across – Lift to reveal pants : ELEVATOR

1-down – Hatch up plan to go round zone, one leaving with great confidence : CHUTZPAH

2-down – See 10 : AWAY

3-down – Fruit fruitless fruits : GRAPES

4-down – FA world may be a combination of 22 across, 12, 17 and 3 : WALDORF

5-down – As he redesigned first flower border here? : IRISHSEA

6-down – Australian girl in a muddle following blood groups : ABORIGINAL

7-down – Form a view that’s about death, mostly : IDEATE

13-down – Liqueur served by car fitted with working battery : LIMONCELLO

16-down – Dissident Frenchman taking oath : RENEGADE

18-down – Leaves in arrogant fashion : TARRAGON

19-down – Vet ruled out mixed vegetables for dogs : BEAGLES

21-down – Romeo on the outside is one that’s horny and miserable : MOROSE

22-down – The Guardian turning up after money? Must be nuts! : CASHEW

24-down – See 24 across : COAL

1-across – Pioneer in surgery, one keeling over? : LISTER

4-across – Get better business in advance : PICKUP

9-across – Endangered species with misguided emphasis on saving ourselves, primarily? : HOMO

10-across – Quality of chef that divides a country : COOKSTRAIT

11-across – Name of organ — forget it! : NOFEAR

12-across – Pot filled with starter of ratatouille, call for dinner : PRANDIAL

13-across – Lean back into serve for gritty and absorbing stuff : CATLITTER

15-across – See 4 : LINE

16-across – Project ending in failure — might sacking come from that? : JUTE

17-across – Story just in Scandinavian folk literature initially remains alongside novel : NEWSFLASH

21-across – Laid to rest, where shoe may have stepped, did you say? : INTERRED

22-across – Forceful and effective church, weak externally : PUNCHY

24-across – Brown’s income, bulky : CUMBERSOME

25-across – Pancake given second prod almost collapsed : DROP

26-across – Carelessness in kiss stolen by ordinary people : LAXITY

27-across – Value ship upon high seas : ASSESS

1-down – Operatic heroine alone, or otherwise : LEONORA

2-down – See 25 : SCONE

3-down – Piece right, apart from clasps : EXCERPT

5-down – Erection of some flats, ninety put in : INSTAL

6-down – Precautions learnt by the way, training bred into little ’uns in the main? : KERBDRILL

7-down – Fish placed between meat and two veg, might taking issue here prove costly? : PRIVATE

8-down – Total fool playing lotto with epidemic : COMPLETEIDIOT

14-down – Door opening, Spooner discussing enhanced security system? : LETTERBOX

16-down – Flower in centre of Beijing adorning bedcover, detailed : JONQUIL

18-down – See 9 : SAPIENS

19-down – See 7 : SCHOOLS

20-down – A northern English vale runs up biblical mountain : ARARAT

23-down – Girl’s head coming through as newborn appears — push gently! : NUDGE

7-across – Fool in underwear during time inside home : BIRDBRAIN

8-across – Opener from Sabbath isn’t safe, Christian rock : SAINT

9-across – I’ll leave the strings vibrating, more than one forte : STRENGTHS

10-across – See 8 : PETER

12-across – One member of English rock group, one going on record : NEEDLE

13-across – Jersey, perhaps, odd — it’s worn by relative : RUMINANT

16-across – See 18 : DIAMOND

19-across – Flash car carrying hip, grand rock group : ROLLING

22-across – See 27 : CAROLINE

25-across – See 19 : STONES

27-across – Number of England fans, tolerance-wise, needing reform : SWEET

28-across – He’s in a spy novel, like work of 19 25? : SISYPHEAN

29-across – Some rock singer, when paired with 4 : CLIFF

30-across – More refined Conservative right to block maverick : COURTLIER

1-down – One enters playing trill etc, kind of rock singer : LITTLE

2-down – Notice earth and mire around rider? : ADDENDUM

3-down – Scallywag upholding British accent : BROGUE

4-down – See 1 : RICHARD

5-down – Drinkers are in this state in empty town : TAVERN

6-down – Trainee put in ground nuts, at first : INTERN

11-down – A pair of Frenchmen love contents of magazine : AMMO

14-down – Clay changed to this mineral in boxes : ALI

15-down – Name of the game : TAG

16-down – One who cures fish from the south : DOC

17-down – Twelve months in port : AYR

18-down – Line dancing by rock singer : NEIL

20-down – Ladies on staff hiding hotel’s way to dodge tax? : LOOPHOLE

21-down – Vocabulary of large person once idolised : LEXICON

23-down – A woven fabric to suit oneself : ATWILL

24-down – Rare bird stopping and starting tours round east : ONEOFF

25-down – Writer’s special name for rock once : SAYERS

26-down – King, say, in shelter raised part of crown : ENAMEL

1-across – Turning 18 in Scunthorpe, an initially austere place : SPARTA

5-across – Very well, reply with subversion : SUPERBLY

9-across – Fancy top hotel in genius refurb­ishment and alignment of living space : FENGSHUI

10-across – Stimulate love for what’s silent in autumn, sweetheart? : ENDEAR

11-across – Let heir vomit violently, having drunk too much : OVERTHELIMIT

13-across – Rubbish dump around platform : CLAP

14-across – Convert for gender realignment, but not at first : EXCHANGE

17-across – Last chance for dinosaurs? : DEADLINE

18-across – See 13 : TRAP

20-across – Perhaps Genet isn’t led by intelligence as a philosopher : WITTGENSTEIN

23-across – Communicate to leave Her Majesty unharmed : INTACT

24-across – As a devoted husband promises to pursue unorthodox offer on vacation : UXORIOUS

25-across – Jump parole to mingle with footballing sides : LEAPFROG

26-across – Provide plaster : RENDER

2-down – Appeal guaranteed to give satisfaction : PLEA

3-down – Rallied German Democratic Republic leaders to mess around with Europe : REGROUPED

4-down – In Africa, the elephant’s following : ATHEEL

5-down – The fisherman’s bringing up food for the city : SAINTPETERSBURG

6-down – Cloak essentially 10% off : PRETENCE

7-down – Spokes in bones : RADII

8-down – Hero FBI agent tailing false denial : LEADINGMAN

12-down – Being faithful, such as in marriage : ALLEGIANCE

15-down – Time for news to shift into care : ATTENTION

16-down – Ghastly actor, not a movie maker … : DIRECTOR

19-down – … an artist concerned with film genre : RENOIR

21-down – Type of steamer, capsized craft, borne by politician : TRAMP

22-down – See 2 : SURE

1-across – Attendant put on petticoat or an unwanted shift : SLIPPAGE

5-across – Reclining, take a pew and mug for aperitif : PASTIS

9-across – Rickety chair upset with jerk : RACHITIC

10-across – Invader has trouble crossing dry area : ATTILA

12-across – Crowd united in high spirits for band with no B-side? : MOBIUSSTRIP

15-across – Excluding top royal commentator : NOTER

17-across – Following the party line, singles wise to drink last of rum : ONMESSAGE

18-across – Spanish port I’m leaving without tatty garment on : TARRAGONA

19-across – Place to drink nothing in current circumstances : OASIS

20-across – Guitarists and a rock star group : SAGITTARIUS

24-across – Mark bringing flower back? This is sweet : BRANDY

25-across – Forming a habit to ignore cold food ingredient : ADDITIVE

26-across – See 7 : SWITCH

27-across – Out loud, I refer to what the Observer must use : EYESIGHT

1-down – In the main, they catch personnel interrupting new temps in seconds : SHRIMPNETS

2-down – Where Marxists govern, right-winger’s brooding has such an effect : INCUBATORY

3-down – Nancy’s old serving man turned up to frame painting : POILU

4-down – Artist acquires a bit of English capital : GAINSBOROUGH

6-down – Opt against playing, leaving golf course : ANTIPASTO

7-down – One cuts current outings with enchanting lady : TRIP

8-down – See 24 : SNAP

11-down – Not anticipating much, like Robin’s correspondence with Doris? : FROMDAYTODAY

13-down – Return of cutter riding the waves on the drink : WASSAILING

14-down – Nicely trim dressing nurse cut on new patient : PERSISTENT

16-down – Stealing hearts, music genre’s poetic and lyrical : RHAPSODIC

21-down – Sign of decay but not the first : ARIES

22-down – Leader deposed by Jeb Bush oddly loses power : EBBS

23-down – Country bringing down current queen : RANI

9-across – Brendan, say, is prone to break bed, incurring maximum damage : COSTLIEST

10-across – Invalidate second article taken out of yearbook : ANNUL

11-across – Starr initially is not what Lennon, McCartney, or Harrison nominally is : SAINT

12-across – European uniform in range of colours, or part of one : EPAULETTE

13-across – Letter its writer shortened put in English post : EPISTLE

14-across – Artist reckonin’ to include kind of turn : GAUGUIN

17-across – Some wine I had carried out again : REDID

19-across – Five, four or three — or two, but not one : PAR

20-across – Victim of crime benefitting another apostle : PETER

21-across – American singer including extra text for cartoon character : SIMPSON

22-across – Opening part of travel permit that’s sound : TENABLE

24-across – Suggest anagram for 6 to set? : POSTULATE

26-across – Record number : TRACK

28-across – Physicist or 24 down, first of six : PAULI

29-across – Put black coat on setter wearing old sailor’s hat : TARPAULIN

1-down – Book followed by 6’s writings, primarily about crosswords to solve : ACTS

2-down – Losing little time, help one place in Italy : ASSISI

3-down – Oft-used words from end of crossword — 6 set it, possibly : PLATITUDES

4-down – Think highly of some setter, ever enjoyable : REVERE

5-down – Road rage — runs into that unknown person : STRANGER

6-down – 4, 8, 14, or part of three others : PAUL

7-down – Coach — partners on lorry cut inside it : INSTRUCT

8-down – It sounds like material for craftsperson, or painter : KLEE

13-down – What John, George and Ringo share in odd ruse to make money : EUROS

15-down – 10 cut up badly, missing good time? : UNPUNCTUAL

16-down – Courage seen in never moving king, queen, or rook : NERVE

18-down – Capital goal reached after conversion : DAMASCUS

19-down – Finish in undergarment and neckwear? : PENDANTS

22-down – Speculation in gold concealed by people in general : THEORY

23-down – Attend 25% of lectures, ie one in four : BEATLE

24-down – One writer including second page and another : POPE

25-down – Ammunition centre for some soldiers : UNIT

27-down – Good supporting people, as 6 was for Corinthians and others : KING

1-across – Unable to perform in Cath’s bedroom, when nervous : HORSDECOMBAT

8-across – Kiss man touring Peru, reluctantly engaged : ROPEDIN

9-across – Expected trouble arose between fellow and wife : FORESAW

11-across – Occasionally heard in museum gallery : VERANDA

12-across – Sign of overconfidence from Surrey opener with tail : SWAGGER

13-across – Sailors winning hearts : TAHRS

14-across – Knives are out for such dishonest practices : KNAVERIES

16-across – Those not wanting friends coming round put on EastEnders? : LONDONERS

19-across – That is wrong about Japanese immigrants’ child : NISEI

21-across – Exciting but set to backfire? I make 80% being involved : VIBRANT

23-across – Corresponding measure to keep criminal out : INTOUCH

24-across – Help victim of trick, for crying out loud : SUCCOUR

25-across – Maybe Post Office really apologising : AVIATOR

26-across – One responsible for crime wave at store : HOUSEBREAKER

1-down – Hotels round Dover maybe making a small contribution : HAPORTH

2-down – In tears over dead squirrels etc : RODENTS

3-down – New job in the O2? Couldn’t say : DONTASKME

4-down – See females in America showing restraint : CUFFS

5-down – Spread around one-time resort : MARGATE

6-down – Something thrown from carriages safely picked up : ASSEGAI

7-down – Drama is rank at the start : PRIVATELIVES

10-down – Rowdy hermits — ridiculous! That’s clever writing? : WORDSMITHERY

15-down – Spend the summer, when retired, sailing round the Virgin Islands with a lot of drink : AESTIVATE

17-down – Firm support for return of National Opera : NABUCCO

18-down – Speakers bang to rights, so are locked up : ORATORS

19-down – Be too fussy in jail — it’s punishment, principally : NITPICK

20-down – Stroll on terrace — setter’s taken one earlier : SAUNTER

22-down – Player ultimately both managed to beat : THROB

7-across – Orange books in lift : CARROTY

8-across – Everything flipping right in lemon fool : DULLARD

9-across – Hybrid melon, one scooped out for party : GALA

10-across – Maestro placing last bits of crab apple on the new cooker : BEETHOVEN

12-across – Extra strawberries finally cut : SPARE

13-across – Large ripe damson that man has picked : HANDSOME

15-across – Fruit in slippery gunk, initially wiped : LIME

16-across – Japanese food: a little clementine marked ‘From the East’ : RAMEN

17-across – Renaissance composer producing sound of kiwi, say? : BYRD

18-across – Cherry always cut by me for saviour : REDEEMER

20-across – Yet to consume each peach : BEAUT

21-across – Confused flavour, lychee lacking pulp in conclusion : ENTANGLED

22-across – Some of the durian rejected — like a raspberry? : RUDE

24-across – A jar containing mostly mellow fruit : APRICOT

25-across – Sweet plum filled with cream, originally : CHOCICE

1-down – Father requiring pair of pears, oddly : PAPA

2-down – Feast in fruit for large animal : GREATAPE

3-down – Sturdy bill prodding fruit, first of oils extracted : STABLE

4-down – US president with endless fruit: a good deal to eat, but no starter : BUCHANAN

5-down – Nothing is fruit : OLIVES

6-down – Country importing really amaz­ing nectarines, primarily : IRAN

11-down – Passing hard prune stone, with Pepe’s bowels opening? : EPHEMERAL

12-down – Date boxes in European river : SEINE

14-down – David’s subject picking up some fruit, a rambutan : MARAT

16-down – Staff pressing fruit for Bacchus, say? : ROMANGOD

17-down – Event finding seed in pear, we hear? : BOATRACE

19-down – Involve last of fruit in a line, stewed : ENTAIL

20-down – Spiritual teacher with friend had nuts : BUDDHA

21-down – See inexpensive fruits, cheap and nasty, ultimately : ESPY

23-down – Dodge mandarin, for example : DUCK

7-across – 20 down 23 where kennel empty? : DOGGONE

8-across – Gentle touch and scream for loyalist : PATRIOT

9-across – Burn fish : CHAR

10-across – 20 down 23 from fruit-eating political reformer, casually speaking : GORBLIMEY

12-across – 20 down 23 that’s in 14 : SUGAR

13-across – Store food in besieged town, king having fled : MEATSAFE

15-across – Drowning in espresso, a reluctant fly : SOAR

16-across – Selection in cooker : RANGE

17-across – Stay with president who’s not all there : BIDE

18-across – Tight garments on soldiers, clothing no good : LEGGINGS

20-across – Animal picked up dessert : MOOSE

21-across – Gardener resolved to plant thousand in shade : DARKGREEN

22-across – Aimlessly wander where seas are dry : MOON

24-across – Significant amounts made on raids at sea : INROADS

25-across – See 19 : BENNETT

1-down – 20 down 23, naff off and put a sock in it : GOSH

2-down – 16 across and musical pattern right for setter : AGARAGAR

3-down – Ass over-protects horse : ONAGER

4-down – A gamble, when queasy, drinking tiniest bit of lemon squash, say : BALLGAME

5-down – 20 down 23 has nan in bits, say : CRUMBS

6-down – 20 down 23 seeing papal cigar? : HOLY

11-down – Two notes since rewritten, look back : REMINISCE

12-down – See 6 : SMOKE

14-down – Deliberately obscure 20 down 23 : FUDGE

16-down – Quisling, Frenchman with­holding 20 down 23 : RENEGADE

17-down – 20 down 23 out : BLOOMING

19-down – 20 down 23 two little boys catch, punching caveman from behind : GORDON

20-down – What might make a hot 14, say : MINCED

21-down – American 20 down 23 flipping benign, a disappointment, though not entirely : DANG

23-down – See 20 : OATH