2285: Characterful
Unclued lights are three groups of three words of a kind, each group relating differently to a theme word. This…
2276: Iron Man
Definitions in ten clues contain a misprint; corrections spell out a theme word. Unclued lights are four pairs of words…
to 2273: Numbers
Round the perimeter run the titles of three songs from the musical Guys and Dolls, epitomised by SKY (28) Masterson…
2258: Perimetrical jigsaw
Clues are listed in alphabetical order of their solutions. An 11-word quotation runs around the perimeter from the top left-hand…
To 2255: In the pink
Oscar WILDE (35) described hunting as THE UNSPEAKABLE IN FULL PURSUIT OF THE UNEATABLE (1A, 14, 30, 42), and the…
2249: Transformation
The transformation is 10A (three words), which suggests the other unclued lights, including one of two words and one hyphened.…
Solution to 2246: Where’s Maggie?
The play was Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. The characters were BRICK (1A), DOCTOR BAUGH (7/5),…
2237: Experimental
One unclued light is a publication (two words). The others are relevant figures (all in Chambers) who appear in a…
To 2234: A greater measure
MARCOBRUNNER (11) is composed of words whose definitions are 1D, 24, 32; 13, 17, 35; and 9, 29A, 38. First…
2232: Ups and downs
The unclued lights, in one case paired, are all suggested by a thematic phrase (two words), which is set out…
To 2229: Gnome
The PROVERB (35) (in ODQ), associated with the KENNEDY (19) FAMILY (31), was ‘A rising tide lifts all boats’. EDIT…
2214: What’s up?
The theme word is 29 down, which defines each of the other unclued lights (including one of two words) in…
To 2211: Toddler hero
‘THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH YIELDING PLACE TO NEW’, from Tennyson’s IDYLLS OF THE KING, suggests the outcome of ANAGRAMMATISM (2).…
2205: In shape
The unclued lights (including one of three words, one of two words, and one hyphened) form two thematic groups in…
To 2202: Problem XI
Seven unclued lights are ANAGRAMS (23) of numbers. 2 (7A) + 11 (17) + 10 (40) + 16 (5) +…
2196: Diverse
Round the perimeter clockwise goes a place (6) followed by a description of it (10 words, one hyphened) by one…
To 2193: Celebration II
The MUSICIAN (21), Rod Stewart CBE (25A), was born LXX (16) years ago on 10th January 1945. The associated works…
2187: River and Islands
The ten unclued lights consist of a theme word and three groups of three answers of a kind, each group…
To 2184: Airline
Unclued lights each contained a different TREY (20) from the alphabet: AFGHAN (24), CANOPY (27), DINGHIES (42), DABCHICK (1D), HYMNODY…
2178: Saint and playwright
The unclued lights are connected by 33/23. One pair of unclued lights gives one context, in which two further pairs…
to 2175: Elated grunt
The four works were Waverley (anagram of 12/21), Kenilworth (15/8), The Talisman (29/2) and Ivanhoe (38/37) by SIR WALTER SCOTT (diagonally…
2169: Land
Six items of one kind, reading clockwise, form the perimeter, whilst four unclued lights are of another kind. All ten…
To 2166: Somewhere X
Somewhere next to GUYANA (34) and BRAZIL (12), DUTCH (33) is SPOKEN (25), the highest mountain is JULIANA TOP (1D),…
2160: 18 Down
Six unclued lights are 18 Down from the same source (five are entitled to appear; the sixth appears regularly). Six…
To 2157: Song X
If the grid were a TIMEPIECE (13/12), the six perimetric words (GRANITE, LIMESTONE, SERPENTINE, GREYWACKE, DALRADIAN and HORNFELS) might collectively…
