Search Results for: see 20 down

9-across – Something to do with a turkey claiming ’e’s least like a chicken? : PLUCKIEST

10-across – Captivated by beachwear, thoroughly dirty sod? : EARTH

11-across – Trump, in a sad bully : RUFFIAN

12-across – List of workers in survey about Scottish town : PAYROLL

13-across – Thin metal block : FOIL

14-across – Dummy for Fraserburgh ends in promotion of Scottish city? : DUNDERHEAD

16-across – Man United : HUSBAND

17-across – Mark as dealt with in audition for author : CHEKHOV

19-across – Good news after delivery in Scottish town : MOTHERWELL

22-across – A group of soldiers, verily : AMEN

24-across – Secured by locks on animal, put away marine creature : MANATEE

25-across – Indicators nearly all expendable : NEEDLES

26-across – Girl I sigh about : NAOMI

27-across – Hormone is found in large quantity in heart : CORTISONE

1-down – Snap taken after vacation: mum’s photo free to edit : SPUROFTHEMOMENT

2-down – Some potatoes under wet ground lifted in Scottish town : DUMFRIES

3-down – Breaking surface, last of three geese flying : SKEIN

4-down – Spooner’s chicken that’s hungry, possibly, for vegetarian food : BEANCURD

5-down – Casanova nursing constant rash : STUPID

6-down – American novel on delivery : NEWYORKER

7-down – Poet Tennyson’s babbler in recital? : BROOKE

8-down – She’s a manicurist, you might say, cutting end of finger in Hitchcock film : THELADYVANISHES

15-down – Very slight inconvenience circumnavigating Scottish city : PAPERTHIN

17-down – A duck turned over in Indian dish, heart removed for cooking : CULINARY

18-down – See 23 : HAMILTON

20-down – Length of fibrous tissue, end of cord going into joint : TENDON

21-down – No-good gag read out : WRETCH

23-down – Speeding driver in Scottish isle and town : LEWIS

8-across – We are obliged to break out to capture accessory : THANKYOU

9-across – Love being turned over after kiss — it’s a gas! : XENON

10-across – See 2 : LOPE

11-across – Cutter’s instrument is very cutting : RAZORSHARP

12-across – Animals in some hardship, possibly : HIPPOS

14-across – Extreme indignation risk : ENDANGER

15-across – Central assembly couple have a hug : EMBRACE

17-across – Do-it-yourself sea trip is a long and lonely time : YEARSOF

20-across – See 17 : SOLITUDE

22-across – See 6 : ANDONE

23-across – See 6 : DALMATIANS

24-across – Heartbroken part in screen role voluntarily rejected : LOVE

25-across – Cat in conversation chain : LINKS

26-across – Sweet thing in extremely delicate meringue skirt : DEMERARA

1-down – Brag aloud, quiet about one’s element : CHROMIUM

2-down – Beast’s antler cut and twisted at the end, almost gaping : ANTE

3-down – Where to find knickers here, one could say : CYPRUS

4-down – Irregular pulse stopped by snoring, of which this is an example : PUZZLES

5-down – Where to study cattle crossing? : OXBRIDGE

6-down – Many people from Croatia in this movie : ONEHUNDRED

7-down – False U-turn maybe supported by Spain : UNTRUE

13-down – Fox trapped by mother owls? : PARLIAMENT

16-down – Nice gesture to go out with? In a way, yes : COURTESY

18-down – Drunk Romeo slurping up French wine is not a discriminating consumer : OMNIVORE

19-down – Over and above part section of house : VERANDA

21-down – Nothing clear about this prediction : ORACLE

22-down – Pretend to be like birds heading north : ASSUME

24-down – See 24 across : LORN

8-across – Reject hard line taken in deal : THROWOUT

9-across – Guide well short of capital : USHER

10-across – Expensive footballer, a fair whack? : HIGH

11-across – Members affected by this blow, a thousand perceived the wrong way : KNOCKKNEES

12-across – Beat meat, just cut : HAMMER

14-across – A suspicious device packed with explosive gas carried out : ACHIEVED

15-across – Money once invested in extreme elements of execrable school : EDUCATE

17-across – See 10 : STRIKER

20-across – Honeysuckle left suspended, getting half of rain : LONICERA

22-across – Effin’ Jeffrey Archer novel? : LORDOF

23-across – Parting words making Oates laugh : HASTALUEGO

24-across – Piece: one nailed by fiddle : COIN

25-across – Cotton reels I lost, some rolling over : LISLE

26-across – Love poem about heart in euphoria, might Oxford get into it? : OVERSHOE

1-down – Finch finally back with swallows in country : THAILAND

2-down – Gravy: cook put a sock in it : DOSH

3-down – See 24 : WORKER

4-down – Affected country, one sat upon : OTTOMAN

5-down – Money stolen, lead fired : BUCKSHOT

6-down – Light fluffy rice inspiring old maestro : CHANDELIER

7-down – Current activity that’s unproblematic : BREEZE

13-down – See 19 : MACKINTOSH

16-down – See 22 across : THEFLIES

18-down – Buttonholing doctor, notice awfully sad face? : EMOTICON

19-down – Showman: Tory wet repelled by one : CAMERON

21-down – Old people welcoming end of political authority : ORACLE

22-down – Eye dish : LOOKER

24-down – Beauty bedding a fit provider of social service : CASE

1-across – An arc, as if tan — um? This is very cryptic! : ARIDDLE

5-across – See 1 : WRAPPED

10-across – See 1 : UPIN

11-across – Boy reportedly on bridge — checked : CRISSCROSS

12-across – Buzz of social drinking? : ALDRIN

13-across – See 1 : ANENIGMA

14-across – Over-the-top material fellow observed by playing charades : HEADSCARF

16-across – Copper like a writer? : PENNY

17-across – One eaten by cannibal, due to ordering human takeaway? : ALIEN

19-across – See 17 : ABDUCTION

23-across – Comic admits funny intro beaten : DRUMROLL

24-across – Becoming rotten, though not in the middle — an old cracker? : TURING

26-across – Powdered substance in blossom on tree, we hear? : PLAINFLOUR

27-across – Murder: one covered up by Corleone, say? : DOIN

28-across – Untruth about alcoholic drink — it’s non-alcoholic : LIMEADE

29-across – My house accommodates an unknown knave : BYJINGO

2-down – Disgust dealing with lentil, say? : REPULSE

3-down – Currency turning up around capital in Iraq? : DINAR

4-down – Brief party outside the Church houses : LACONIC

6-down – Breakfast item, more premature : RASHER

7-down – Relevant page on internet refreshed : PERTINENT

8-down – Since given time to plug rise of celebrity, film pioneer : EASTMAN

9-down – Lesser eminence not entirely describing perfect maverick in poet : HILAIREBELLOC

15-down – Fantastic wall with inscription of mark in concrete : DREAMLIKE

18-down – Femme fatale lovelier, not very hideous : LORELEI

20-down – Just say before unloading lorry : UTTERLY

21-down – Old writing, sound from pen? : OINKING

22-down – Cap in deference then certainly lifted — like this? : DOFFED

25-down – More than one spoke Russian and Arabic originally: 502? : RADII

9-across – Trump’s change of policy dealing with mug : ABOUTFACE

10-across – Enhance diet thus, originally in difficulty : ADDTO

11-across – Be off with Conservative deal — catastrophe! : DEBACLE

12-across – Trouble in huge drunk guzzling last of gin : UNHINGE

13-across – Prayer required to join Republican Party : RAVE

14-across – System broken by main Irish party, open your eyes! : WAKEYWAKEY

16-across – Feed hare the wrong way, true to form : NURTURE

17-across – Vacuum-packed whiskey? : DOUBLEU

19-across – On a trip in the air, as a jet-setter? : HIGHFLYING

22-across – Throw something in a brown envelope? : BUNG

24-across – Abominable feeling rejected, son taking time out : NOISOME

25-across – Purplish-pink haze initially obstructing sun, say? : HEATHER

26-across – See 15 : STATE

27-across – Rock hid alpine plants : DELPHINIA

1-down – Asian characters with bureaucrat seen struggling to comprehend European character : MANDARINCHINESE

2-down – Jazz band particularly inadequate — unconvincing style? : COMBOVER

3-down – See 18 : STOCK

4-down – Grand very good price? Steep! : MACERATE

5-down – In shelter, stick vegetable : LEGUME

6-down – Ready: set up to tackle Wimbledon’s top seed : CASHEWNUT

7-down – Midnight mass’s ending in dark and damp European city : GDANSK

8-down – Nervous: my old age pitiable — it was all so blissful once : LOVESYOUNGDREAM

15-down – Kansas gallery after painting : SUNFLOWER

17-down – Tobacconist inhaling good quantity of muck : DUNGHILL

18-down – Ludicrous, ultimately embarrassing and a slight con: UK — seen as this? : LAUGHING

20-down – One’s played God, unwittingly inspiring transgression and revolution, first of all : GUITAR

21-down – Beaten side latterly, with stuffing knocked out, surrenders : YIELDS

23-down – Chairman hugging companion, butch : MACHO

1-across – Speciality of doctor : SYNONYM

5-across – Worries British people apart from us : BOTHERS

9-across – Author who used commas a lot : ROGET

10-across – Organised time trial for 14 : LITERATIM

11-across – Very noticeable, it’s said : PRONOUNCED

12-across – 14 describing action concealed by clever boy : VERB

14-across – 6 or 21, or 16 : WORDFORWORD

18-across – Trimmed text with revised line typed in appropriate way : EXPEDIENTLY

21-across – Promise that’s repeated about James in agent’s introduction : BOND

22-across – Waxy substance ruined unfinished masterpiece : SPERMACETI

25-across – He has put in sign that’s used to find another 14 : THESAURUS

26-across – 10, from landlord’s point of view : TOTHE

27-across – Daisy’s family members introduced by male teachers : MASTERS

28-across – Fighters in ring charged for spectacle : TOREROS

1-down – Secure input intermittently for text : SCRIPT

2-down – Sign agreement importing stuff that’s sticky and worthless : NOGOOD

3-down – I win on date arranged for cross-country? : NATIONWIDE

4-down – Foreign city that’s lost nothing in translation : MILAN

5-down – Dairy product, say, fellow’s taken into club : BUTTERFAT

6-down – Evacuate the room for a certain period : TERM

7-down – Trading hub located in centre, potentially : ENTREPOT

8-down – Person of importance, or no one in particular : SOMEBODY

13-down – Anatomist speaking on less shiny part of head : GREYMATTER

15-down – Stuff sent abroad again in middle of Brexit — breaking stories : REEXPORTS

16-down – Unusually brave little boy in story copied exactly : VERBATIM

17-down – One’s surprised, initially, about writer’s candour : OPENNESS

19-down – See 26 : LETTER

20-down – What’s numbered 14 — 14 as source of strength : SINEWS

23-down – Take a break about one in second test : RESIT

24-down – 14 with capital English worker raised : NAME

9-across – Big comedown to dine with a faux French speaker? : AVALANCHE

10-across – Standard of jazz worried Spike, ladies and gentlemen, by the sound of it? : EIGHT

11-across – Quid, perhaps, charged originally to cut meat sandwiches : TOBACCO

12-across – Light in Greece, not entirely great : HELLUVA

13-across – See 23 : FOUR

14-across – See 20 : FORNOTHING

16-across – Questionable faith, a priestess ultimately loses it : HASAFIT

17-across – 50-peseta piece ready for the press? : TYPESET

19-across – Fat man, tactless : UNTHINKING

22-across – What’s up with newspaper in fictitious case, its views distorted? : HALL

24-across – What cinema promotes is of some importance : ANAGRAM

25-across – So-called trees, those found on the coastline : BEACHES

26-across – Last of all on card, Uganda: pick Kampala for African capital : DAKAR

27-across – Something written about in poem, new spins on certain verb forms : NONFINITE

1-down – Zulu had this soft touch, as travelling around desert : CASTOFTHOUSANDS

2-down – See 10 : BARBLUES

3-down – Trap fly in the ointment : CATCH

4-down – Exclusive, published extract : SCOOPOUT

5-down – Female bird impressed by male’s train, I see? : PEAHEN

6-down – Present finally wrapped up, also peel off sticker : SELLOTAPE

7-down – Scratching bottom, a disease is in large rodent : AGOUTI

8-down – Hands just level with heads in every sense : STRAIGHTFLUSHES

15-down – See 22 : OFMIRRORS

17-down – Old socialist, Spooner’s Napoleon X? : TONYBENN

18-down – Two beats for number one, perhaps? : SMASHHIT

20-down – Unpaid Hollywood actor? I don’t care much for that! : THANKS

21-down – Loose robe, child’s short one? : KIMONO

23-down – Media channel right for audio broadcasting : RADIO

1-across – Go past building that’s quiet just for now : STOPGAP

5-across – Recorded in parts with little enthusiasm : MINUTED

9-across – Old paintings lacking top grade frames — gold one’s a Turner : ROTOR

10-across – Old house in road actors initially rented : LANCASTER

11-across – Court calls solely for judges : FOOTFAULTS

12-across – Invalid reported danger in river : CROC

14-across – See 17 : ITSPERSONAL

18-across – Female lead at last — a new Bond producer’s change for the better? : ENHANCEMENT

21-across – Fling books round ship : TOSS

22-across – Knackered, as Cook was before last Test innings? : CLAPPEDOUT

25-across – Hounds manager that’s optimistic but not around during success : WHIPPERIN

26-across – Complaint Democrat ignored — language! : MALAY

27-across – Sort that out, son! Most of college cuts Unite rejected : SEETOIT

28-across – Thankful he’s left school : OBLIGED

1-down – Quarrelling in street commonplace : STRIFE

2-down – Choice of brew after first love gets promoted : OPTION

3-down – Partner’s life Grindr ruined : GIRLFRIEND

4-down – Flipping Dua Lipa’s eating what? : PILAU

5-down – Mammal on metro upset me : MONOTREME

6-down – Almost managed to climb over fence at back : NEAR

7-down – Instruction to code-breaker on the outside : TUTORING

8-down – Urgently holding court right away : DIRECTLY

13-down – Bad storm and hail round east with temperature remaining constant : ISOTHERMAL

15-down – Was suspicious — something fishy about Test cricketer : SMELLARAT

16-down – Wives : NEWTOWNS

17-down – Thirties’ simpleton as comic film cliche : THISTIME

19-down – Con government has setter going round bend : DOGLEG

20-down – Stopped being unadventurous for audition : STAYED

23-down – No! Ukip leader’s going to run as a Liberal? : PINKO

24-down – Colleague in work on left, not right : OPPO

1-across – See 25 : SOCKET

4-across – Limits of range and colour on very big screen : REREDOS

9-across – Shock at end of boxing match, after a reversal of direction : ABOUTTURN

10-across – Tack on horse : PINTO

11-across – Indian state: state China finally backed : ASSAM

12-across – Pastry with light filling needing dash of Drambuie — might spirit be found here? : FAIRYLAND

13-across – Rotating marker, draw round old vessel : TUGBOAT

15-across – Having admitted affair, those in special relationship knocked over in boxing challenge? : SUDOKU

17-across – Tapestry of fibres, these worn : BRIEFS

19-across – Tools in sulk grasped by babies : PUPPETS

22-across – Letter oddly penned by a German artist — one’s not true : ADULTERER

24-across – Scottish writer, like Dylan Thomas? : WELSH

26-across – Runner drinking fine wine : TOKAY

27-across – Do exercises with largest warhorse : OLDSTAGER

28-across – Crack nut, leaving kernel with sufficient gravy? : SOLVENT

29-across – Show with fake news how internet so needs overhauling : THETWO

1-down – Two animals closer? : SEALANT

2-down – Our love bites sweet, initially — disagree? : CROSS

3-down – Unscripted show in which police upset over engineers : EXTEMPORE

4-down – See 29 : RONNIES

5-down – Come back with very little money to deposit in bank : REPLY

6-down – I can’t be sure head will protect new job : DONTASKME

7-down – See 2 : SWORDS

8-down – Cold food in batter? : BUFFET

14-down – Art set to inspire entertainment aboard ship : GARFUNKEL

16-down – Electrical device that works like a ducking stool, supposedly : DIPSWITCH

18-down – Order large yellow blocks : SORTOUT

19-down – Imitation stick spearing foot : PARODY

20-down – Sad and cheerless intros: film director cut upbeat music : SCHERZO

21-down – Model wants juice served up in aperitif : PASTIS

23-down – Herb, a healer by the sound of it? : THYME

25-down – Match point — shock possible here? : LIGHT

1-across – What’s deer caught? It’s a fish : STICKLEBACK

9-across – Bread fellow’s given around lunchtime? : CHAPATI

10-across – Bed wicked nurses? One goes further : ADVANCE

11-across – Study image in it? : IDENTIKIT

12-across – Mum’s feller securing a feather for this cap? : SHAKO

13-across – Peter’s good … : SAFE

14-across – … not very accommodating airliner for vacation : PRECARIOUS

16-across – Doing business, perhaps, but not ready for firing : ATHALFCOCK

19-across – Honey bun : CHOU

20-across – Kilo of gold centimes deposited for timber in New Zealand : KAURI

21-across – One circuit of Paris or relief work of printer? : ALAPOUPEE

23-across – Prize-winning author left union of workers on retirement : NAIPAUL

24-across – Catty papal successor to Damasus II? : LEONINE

25-across – Personal message-sender about to lose bottle? : NERVEENDING

1-down – Address mess in which husband and wife find themselves? : STATEOFTHEUNION

2-down – Not appropriate to doze during sex : INAPT

3-down – Electrician’s knack with repairs — can this help with ladies’ upkeep? : KNICKER

4-down – See 3 : ELASTIC

5-down – Slicing a fish, this number is recommended : ADVISORY

6-down – Sarply moving major piece about a national swimmer — I like this work’s power : KANGAROOHOPPING

7-down – Skirmish can grimly set out useless employer’s problem : SCRIMSHANKING

8-down – Press slammed Omen sequel — end of countdown cut : LEMONSQUEEZER

15-down – Like impressionists’ work? Mr Goodman retains one in two : PLEINAIR

17-down – Buttonholing guy on lake, one does delay rising star : CHARLIE

18-down – See 17 : CHAPLIN

22-down – In which antique Greek weighed two Bolivian pots? : OBOLI