2524: Spelean II
Clockwise round the grid from 20 runs a quotation minus one word (1,2,4,4,4,1,4,1,5,4,4,9) followed by an honest servant’s name. Unclued…
2521: Leading question
Unclued lights can be arranged so that, preceded by ‘What is’, they form a question whose answer solvers must shade.…
2515: Paragon
Unclued lights (including three of two words and two pairs) suggest various versions of a name given by a pair…
2512: Impertinence
Clockwise round the grid from 34 run the answers (6,6,5, 11,4,3,7,4) (one hyphened) to eight riddles followed by the riddler’s…
2506: Summer’s voice
Ten unclued lights (including four pairs) are of a kind. Ignore two hyphens and an apostrophe. What could have induced…
2503: Applery
Six unclued lights are the names of traditional English county towns with one letter misprinted so as to form new…
2496: Depart Paddington
Clockwise round the grid from 3 run seven dramatis personae; unclued lights give anagrams of two more. The play’s title…
2493: Opposites
Two contrasting film stars allegedly said ‘1A’ (five words) and ‘49/27’ (six words in total). Remaining unclued lights (including one…
2487: Birthday boys II
December 12th was the birthday of two famous men. Unclued lights (including one of five words, one of two words…
2483: In my soup
Unclued lights are defined by extra words in ten clues and are anagrams of ten of a kind. Elsewhere, ignore…
2478: Namesakes
Clockwise round the grid from 3 run three song titles (totalling 13 words) with 3D/16 (five words in all) giving…
2475: Poem VI
Unclued lights are ten words taken from a poem quoted in ODQ. The poet’s name (two words) will appear diagonally…
2469: Breadth
Unclued lights are anagrams of Shakespearean characters. These lights are defined by surplus words in eight clues. Across 1 Recreational…
2466: Gender bender
Clockwise round the grid from 11 run, in chronological order, the titles (7,7,7,9,2,8,2,10) of five works by an author whose…
2460: Sleaze
The same word appears as seven headwords in Chambers. Unclued lights (including two pairs and one of three words, one…
2457: Beginning
Unclued lights (including one of two words) suggest a section of a sequence whose final member will appear in the…
2451: Cretinous
Unclued lights are anagrams of ten of a kind. Elsewhere, ignore an accent. Across 9 A model cure fixed skin…
2448: Issues
Four pairs of unclued lights (17/5, 22/27, 29/31 and 8/26) form anagrams of the titles (one hyphened, three of three…
2442: Don’t nod
Eight unclued lights are of a kind with the 3 of the 30. Elsewhere, ignore two accents. Across 1 …
2439: More nuts
‘10/17’ give the first three words of a statement (in ODQ) made by a famous 48/21. His works include 1A/23D…
2433: House and garden
Across unclued lights (one of two words) combine with down ones to suggest the surnames of four famous English painters;…
2430: Petite traveller
19 October marks a milestone (hinted at by 19/26/20) for a person whose real forenames are given by 1A (three…
2424: Poem V
1A (four words) and 44 (four words) are quotations from the first verse of a poem (in ODQ). Five remaining…
2421: Tina
‘40/37/1A’, as he has been called, was born in 28 (two words) and died in 30/36. He was a reluctant…
2415: The limit
1A (hyphened) suggests a word which, with changes to its 7D 33, becomes the four other words (including a name)…
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