

The odd letters of KnEw thrown into the embrace of the (hopefully) delightful LILY.
#Heaps kudos on crossword clue plus#
If it looks like an anagram… MANY POOR TRAINS plus (star)T “diverted” “Almost failed” gives you MISSE(d), and all that’s left to do is insert A and the end of (sunse)TĢ6 ANY PORT IN A STORM emergency destination One for the Bible scholars: see provides the V(ide), and 1 Kings is the good book sandwiched between 2 Samuel and -um- 2 Kings. A precise clue which requires you to leave out one of the I’s in INIGO Jones (architect/general/meteorologist according to preference) once you’ve written B for book.Ī straight translation of “force” and “called for”. Not if you’re running a dozen cards at once it isn’t. “There is a French widow in every bedroom, affording delightful propects” I had abbreviates to I’D, bedded into WOW. Since a great deal of our noble exercise relies on wordplay, seems a bit self deprecating, but hay hoe. If you barely washed, you might just dab at your hand, causing your mother to reach for the dreaded hanky and spit remedy.Ī non-hyphenated version is also available for delicate fabric or thread. A combination of DORM/bedroom and (n)ICE/pleasant without its first. Not necessarily named for their sleepy behaviour, pace Rev Dodgson. Cepheid Variables are very useful yellow giant stars with a highly regular pulsation pattern, first observed in 1784 (though I suspect the Chinese spotted them much earlier – they usually did) One of those entry-as-wordplay variations: the answer suggests looking for the anagram EPIC HE’D. When you run out of spaces, stop as idicated. No points lost for missing the accent, so not very PRECISE on the part of our editor.

Stonewalling in cricket is batting with a preoccupation for not getting out. I don’t think this constitutes a NINA, but who knows? On with the show…Īfter watching the latest incarnation of the England cricket teams, I’d almost forgotten what a DEAD BAT looked like, but you need one here to absorb E(nergy) and bore the pants off the spectators. Google tells me this is a) part of the title of a song in Telugu and b) means “though”. That’s better! My last 4 were, perhaps surprisingly, the quartet around the central square, whose letters counterclockwise spell out PARAMUNU. However, you’ll have to excuse me for a moment while I go off into a brief reverie inspired by one of the great sights of the sixties and its associated sounds… A painstaking 16.12 for this likeable if not terribly demanding number, which contrives to be my second running with no “hidden” clue ( other than 9d, of course – see comments below), no soundalike clue, dodgy or otherwise, and no discernable theme.
