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Going off course in tossing the caber, ran through the crowd (8) ABERRANT
Help a criminal perhaps as a matter of course (4) ABET
A crooner fellow in Oxfordshire (8) ABINGDON
Forgives Jack when he does what you are trying to do! (8) ABSOLVES
1 ac. It is a calm reorganisation in action, or perhaps reaction (15) ACCLIMATISATION
How interest grows on hearing of a sea voyage (7) ACCRUES
High honours for airmen (4) ACES
There’s a large number in retrograde Tabora in charge of discipline! (9) ACROBATIC
What makes the Arctic so puzzling? (8) ACROSTIC
Divine vale (5) ADIEU
Let in and let on (5) ADMIT
There’s much in a title (3) ADO
Consequences of changes at the farm (9) AFTERMATH
Scots gain for materialists (9) AGNOSTICS
An outside lie (5) ALIEN
What makes everybody turn to the chaps on the tee? A plot (9) ALLOTMENT
The whole people seem affected by inflation, but everything’s O.K. (4,4) ALL’S WELL
Invariably, say law-breakers (6) ALWAYS
Ian McRae’s upset the natives (9) AMERICANS
I love Kay like crazy (4) AMOK
Is a landau unusual in this part of Spain? (9) ANDALUSIA
Anemia? (6,8,4) ANIMAE DIMIDIUM MEAE (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Aversion to the beaten track? (9) ANTIPATHY
Put in a word for the opposition (7) ANTONYM
Apple-sinner Herbert tried nothing funny (9) APHRODITE
Add nine in the end (8) APPENDIX
Describing a standard feature of ancient Rome (8) AQUILINE
Judge in untidy bar attire (9) ARBITRATE
Their aim is to strike gold (7) ARCHERS
Have a care for the nut! (5) ARECA
Contend with some peculiar guests (5) ARGUE
Equip a fighting man (3) ARM
Advantage point in a tennis match (5) ASSET
Attic dwellers (9) ATHENIANS
Remus can only be found there after capital loss (9) AUSTRALIA
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What a commonplace appearance Jacob’s father-in-law has! (5) BANAL
Transports for earthworks? (7) BARROWS
The mark of Kane? (6,6) BAYERN MUNICH
Providing outlook from “Sea View” (3,6) BAY WINDOW
Able somehow to come down and destroy everything with ultimate justification? (2-3,3,3-3) (Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7) BE-ALL AND (the) END-ALL
Winnie in the nude? Sounds like it! (4) BEAR
Block order (6) BEHEAD
The beauty of Italy grows somewhat deadly (10) BELLADONNA
Musical mnemonic? (4-6) BELL-RINGER
1 ac. (Jumbo size) Thaleischweiler-Fröschen? (9-14) BERGRUINE-STEINENSCHLOSS (historically related!)
A place for riding in the roads (5) BERTH
1 ac. Sleepers rest (7,3,5) BETWEEN THE LINES
Our Town’s man caught by being at a loss (11) BEWILDERING
Hold your horses! debit curtailed? Awkward (4) BIDE
Bit like the Ogre grinding the Old Lady to make his bread! (7) BITCOIN
Peach (4) BLAB
Two balls at snooker – looks as if one’s badly beaten (5,3,4) BLACK AND BLUE Edmund Akenhead
What a bluestocking, strikingly, is not (5-3) BLACK-LEG
A bit of grass cutting? (5) BLADE
There’s no limit to what a sick kangaroo will do (9) BOUNDLESS
Unlimited advice for the excessively jumpy (9) BOUNDLESS
Tie me kangaroo down, Sport (9,3) BOUNDLESS JOY
Nail to cross in Yorkshire (8) BRADFORD
Fine Scots half muster of pipers causing affray (5) BRAWL
The Bard wanders from side to side to side (7) BREADTH
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Club porter utterly devoted to tea (5) CADDY
River crossing made by eight (8) CAMBRIDGE
Is a ram able to produce singers? (8) CANARIES
Even nine lives won’t save the cat from this (4) CARE (Devil’s!) Times crossword 2nd June 1930
Scots call on the pigeons to become singers (9) CAROLLERS
Authority left by an anonymous French caller? (5-7) CARTE-BLANCHE
Antipodean fliers? Disastrous! I saw coarse failures ultimately (11) CASSOWARIES
Stormy Atlantic is one scourge of sailors (3-1-4-5) CAT-‘O-NINE-TAILS
Warnings from cards? (8) CAUTIONS
Point of balance — in the middle of mass? (6,2,7) CENTRE OF GRAVITY
Madam? EVE! (mad am!!) (5,8) CHAIN REACTION
Springs on church cup (7) CHALICE
“Madam, I’m Adam” — the world’s first? (4-2-4) CHAT-UP-LINE
Poet has tea to cure indisposition (7) CHAUCER
He’s not exactly a worthless knave (9) CHEAPJACK
French three card trick? Hardly a ménage à trois! (8,2,5) CHERCHEZ LA FEMME
Waits for them (9,6) CHRISTMAS CAROLS
Not even house mice are stirring now (9,3) CHRISTMAS EVE
Hung up, expecting another call? (9,8) CHRISTMAS STOCKING
Cosmetical trade off. Why? (7,6) CLIMATE CHANGE
Most exclusive, this shop (6) CLOSED
Business as usual? Yes or no (6,4) CLOSED SHOP
You can safely put your shirt on it (7,5) CLOTHES HORSE
Stage director (8) COACHMAN
Assemble for prayer (7) COLLECT
The work of the columnist? (9) COLONNADE
Unwritten rule at Clapham? (6,3) COMMON LAW
Fellows fighting — like Lion and Unicorn? (8-2-4) COMRADES-IN-ARMS
A drawing instrument (9) CORKSCREW
Carnivorous variant (11) CORONAVIRUS
One very rich sucrose mixture (7) CROESUS
Bird needed at bar at opening time (4) CROW
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Premises used by Holmes, for instance (4) DATA
Become old-fashioned and perhaps steady (4) DATE
Periods of world revolution (4) DAYS
Describe a kind of article without it (6) DEFINE
Prometheus bound by the eagle, or unbound by Hercules (9) DELIVERED Edmund Akenhead
“. . . or NOT to be” belated confusion everywhere it seems to this dreadful development (5,7) DELTA VARIANT
Curiously pre-dated déjà vu, all said and done (8) DEPARTED
Scoffing at father turning up in a dive (8) DERISIVE
It provides for a noisy send-off (9) DETONATOR
What comes from Democrat and Republican in US society, sadly (11) DISCOURTESY
Is off-putting to see Penny get away with Bob (5) DOFFS
Canis (3,5) DOG LATIN
“Terriers”? (4,2,3) DOGS OF WAR
It’s a give-away (8) DONATION
Posed in reefers? (5) DOPES
Garment for the Race of Man (7) DOUBLET
Worn clothing for an abstainer (7) DOUBLET
At the delta it was wet but not water-logged (7) DRAINED
Lack of water around Aden damaged a warship (11) DREADNOUGHT
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He who deserves a pound from a novice (6) EARNER
Defence is the business of the world (9) EARTHWORK
Trump perhaps misdirected earnest with hesitation (9) EASTERNER
Be up to an aspiring debutante when out? (5) EBBED
Archiepiscopal vestment laid up (4) EBOR
No swank about this early record-maker (6) EDISON
Has the tide turned (4) EDIT
In bed it helps a woman (5) EDITH
Champion Hen Trophy? (3-3) EGG-CUP
German prince making mark of the cross (7) ELECTOR
Revolver charged? (8) ELECTRON
Angle for dignity (9) ELEVATION
Rival finds bird dead (7) EMULATE
Editors hold new leader over (5) ENDED
Hanging, for example (6) ENDING
Never say never, presumably? (6) ENDING
How to produce a dot (5) ENDOW
Following not so quiet penguins perhaps (7) ENSUING
Stage direction (5) ENTER
Makes the canter tricky for a ballet dancer (9) ENTRECHAT
Poems of the downs (5) EPSOM
Sequel to Troy and Colditz? Connection escapes me! (5) EQUUS
Bacon? Try a piece (5) ESSAY
How players get out (6) EXEUNT
They go out by direction (6) EXEUNT
Stage direction superfluous with a bear in pursuit? (4) EXIT
Oppressive money-grabbing as a wrong’un found among mad oxen (9) EXTORTION
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A Southwestern State (2) FA (Southwestern College, Florida)
Wolf-cry (5,5) FALSE ALARM
As of old, he unfolds a story (9) FALSEHOOD
Speedy way to lose weight (4) FAST
Fall guy (6) FAWKES
Cheat, having hair in a bow (7) FIDDLER
Timber! Warning cry covers road and rail (8) FORESTRY
A rate for the quarry makes one dance (7) FOXTROT
Fair dos! (3) FUN
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Look, a Newfoundland bird (6) GANDER
The oldest profession? (9) GARDENING (Adrian Bell)
Thomas R.A. is winner of a local election (12) GAINSBOROUGH
A form of inflation that speaks for itself (6) GASBAG
They admit being swingers (5) GATES
Orando laborando for (not only Rugby) grammarians (7) GERUNDS
Supplied with the information about four (5) GIVEN
1 ac. In order of celebration, the ayes have it, it seems! (4,5,4,2) GOOD QUEEN BESS II
Fine judgement makes sound sense (4,5) GOOD TASTE Brian Greer
Little brother is among the clinkers back in Glasgow (7) GORBALS
The Cheshire Cat was so expressive (7) GRINNED
Does it make aunt eager to buy the washing-machine? (9) GUARANTEE
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A parting of the waves, perhaps (12) HAIRDRESSING
Term equivalent to a score of forty (4) HALF
England’s lion proves of sterling worth (4,4) HALL MARK
Strikes essential for circulation (5-5) HEART-BEATS
People in pursuit of a principle whilst tempting fate on the road? (9) HEDONISTS
Measure up (6) HEIGHT
Madam? EVE! (mad am!!) (3,10) HER PALINDROME
A shine’s difficult with this cloth! (7) HESSIAN
What host can make such an appeal? (4,4) HOW’S THAT
War time (7,5) HUNDRED YEARS
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Card-player’s choice, perhaps? (5) IDEAL
Club for Hokey Cokey addicts? (2,3,3) IN AND OUT
Norse girl framed? (6) INGRID
Where I net about fifty fish? (5) INLET
Asking for batting sheets (7) INQUIRE
Invest in E-commerce ‒ very concentrated! (9) INTENSIVE
Quick to anger when the calibre is different (9) IRASCIBLE
Are there seers more elevated than ‘e, say you? (6) ISAIAH
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No play here (5) JAPAN
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Rook moves capturing a horse, one that jumps in more ways than one! (8) KANGAROO
Cannon Mark Ten? (4) KISS
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Duty that England expected of her country (4,3) LAND TAX
Fat gives return of nothing on a pound (7) LANOLIN
Sign of amusement at missing man’s homicide (8) LAUGHTER
Does Hell supply material for one’s last work? (7) LEATHER
Instruction one has in hot weather (6) LESSON
Divulge having allowed aboard (3,2) LET ON
Late civil disturbance of the priestly tribe (9) LEVITICAL
Tied up in the theatre (9) LIGATURED Edmund Akenhead
Whose lost pocket then? (7) LOCKETS
Credit where it’s due: “Call me Mr. In-Between” (5) LONER
Romeo gets nothing right (5) LOVER
Avoid friction by changing clue a bit? Right (9) LUBRICATE
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Hard going, was it for the first Scotsman? (7) MACADAM
Learnt in game (Scrabble), substituting a ‘C’ for an ‘E’ giving PROJECTOR (5,7) MAGIC LANTERN
The painter will come up at ten in the morning (5) MANET
In the long run, no honourable revolutionary (5) MARAT
The tribe’s matriarch is in the pink (5) MASAI
Elementary, my dear Watson! (11) MATHEMATICS
It might be made from honey (4) MEAD
Fun and games with Delta and Omicron? (5,7) MEDIA CONTROL
Doctor take in Ireland? A fine yarn! (6) MERINO
Have a thought for the bird! (5) MERRY
Encountered a Ford compadre hands-on type (10) METACARPAL
A flaming streaker! (6) METEOR
Aids to hindsight (7) MIRRORS
They are not expected to do homework (12) MISSIONARIES
Girl set on screwing the books (8) MISSPENT
Story name possibly to rival “The Monk’s Tale” (9) MONASTERY
Oysterman’s bats sanctuary (9) MONASTERY
Retreat more suited to Bonaparte than Ophelia (9) MONASTERY
The poem’s bad, lacks spirit (5) MOPES
Parade of bonnets (9) MOTORCADE
It should be able to catch a London marathon runner (9) MOUSETRAP John Grant
An old friend of mine and Dickens too! (6) MUTUAL David Akenhead
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Of course poor aunt is going to recover (9) NATURALLY
Sounds like something a happy couple has never had (9 letters) NINE LIVES (EA)
Two for Tea, we hear, and a guardian angel? (6-3) NINETY-TWO
Swells end so broke (5) NODES
Love of games (7) NOTHING
French shepherd’s last to witness rumen distortion by one of the flock in the process (11) NUREMBERGER
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Following the bidding (9) OBEDIENCE
Wherein to find the young lady of Berne (8) OBERLAND
Force that gives one globe a new shape (6) OBLIGE
A Manx cat having lost one of its nine lives? (7) OCTOPUS
Occasionally switching (3-3-2) OFF-AND-ON
Culprit walking the plank? (8) OFFENDER
Musical state (8) OKLAHOMA
A classy establishment, but not modern (3,6) OLD SCHOOL
Scene of summit meetings (7) OLYMPUS
Oh my! Chronic illness reported with no supervision (7) OMICRON
Obi, heartless master runs into one trickster — distinctly out of character! (7) OMICRON
A send-up for boarders (2,3,4) ON TOP ONLY
Our obligation (4) ONUS
Looking on the bright side (and not new), Pimm’s No. 1 time in order! (8) OPTIMISM
Speech from “Love on the dole” (7) ORATION
Elizabeth I gets round to transposing an air (6) ORIANA
Money spent but not in song (6) OUTLAY
Supervised love poetry in French (8) OVERSEEN
Put too much weight on superior accent (10) OVERSTRESS
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Verbosity adding weight at the end of the line (10) PADDINGTON
Quiet times for bookmakers (5) PAGES
Stateliest of homes expels one comrade (3) PAL
“Madam, I’m Adam” — the world’s first? (10) PALINDROME
Henry’s fish-wife done in going to Canterbury (8) PARDONER
French moralist produces a scalp (6) PASCAL
Sent! After Easter, consumed! (10) PASSIONATE
May describe a way to avoid friction between father and the editor? (5) PAVED
With dislocated hip Eve’s irritable (7) PEEVISH
Just shut up and write! (3) PEN
A suitable vehicle for Puskin? (12) PERAMBULATOR
Browning’s girt appears good at exams (5) PIPPA
Sound advice to architect of such a heavenly body (6) PLANET
1 ac. Silvery-white Ode to Joy, 21st Century style! (8,7) PLATINUM JUBILEE
Unsuitable entertainment for Father’s Day? (3,8) POP FESTIVAL
With it, junior flying officer latching on to neutron star lost direction (7) POPULAR
Its men-of-war get beached (8) PORTUGAL
Account number (5) POSSE
Musical passages for beginners? (8) PRELUDES
Staff of newspaper in Shanghai? (5-4) PRESS-GANG
Account number (5) PRIDE
Prone to crack! (5) PROSTRATE
Seesaw? Witness split lesson (7) PROVERB
To be, or not to be? As the saying goes! (7) PROVERB
How one can use a brogue to say the wrong thing (3,4,4,2,2) PUT ONE’S FOOT IN IT
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Mark of approval for quiet when alien is instructed to return (5) QUITE
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Regret not shifting car into reverse, he tells us (9) RACONTEUR
Go out like a light (7) RADIATE
Bit of a fall in the dinar or possibly the penny (8) RAINDROP
Heavenly bead (8) RAINDROP
Make a great fuss, as Eve had to do? (5,4) RAISE CAIN
No doubt the old roué would find it hot work to do this (8) RAKEHELL
Swim back from France for a Shakespeare part (5) REGAN
Learned man breaks forges with superiors (6,9) REGIUS PROFESSOR
Don’t go out with airmen (6) REMAIN
All French dream with spilt ink – Klasse! (9) REVERENCE
How turncoats retreat? (7,4) REVERSE GEAR
Money for safari charge account? (5) RHINO
Poor liar to be source of intelligence for Shylock (6) RIALTO
Lofty pull! Flying grouse hit! (9) RIGHTEOUS
Sound reasons for wedding bells perhaps (5) RINGS
Wine from a Spanish river gets OK in Germany (5) RIOJA
Come along, Sisyphus! (4,2) ROLL UP
In short, what’s Stendhal’s little game? (5,2,4) ROUGE ET NOIR
Increase urgency where presidents dominate the scene (8) RUSHMORE
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Dead ringer for the Old Man of the River at Yuletide (5,8) SAINT NICHOLAS
Thus Alice demonstrates Frank’s law (5) SALIC
They cause uprisings of hands and gunfire, but nobody gets hurt (7) SALUTES
Conference material? Impressive! SATIN
Lively school-half with zero vandalism (7) SCHERZO
He can be charming to his mother (4) SCOT
Warmonger? (5-6) SCRAP-DEALER
Bowler seen at Dover – and at Boulogne (8) SEAMER
Supporter of late Queen (8) SECONDER
Hardly one’s best suit in whist! Or cricket game (8) SHORTEST
Armed alliance to regularize foreseeable issue (7,7) SHOTGUN WEDDING
They are continually on point duty (9) SIGNPOSTS
Melodious goings-on, so diverse! (4-4) SING-SONG
Hot-air drier by the Osric company (7) SIROCCO
Needed for deadlocks? (8,4) SKELETON KEYS
Mayday! Mayday! Heavens above! (6,6) SKYLAB MONDAY
Cunning of little significance outside Gravesend (7) SLEIGHT
1 ac. Canette à pêche? (5,7,3) SMALL FISHING ROD
Happy to be one of this beauty queen’s associates (4,5) SNOW WHITE
(Sounds like) the last thing done to a new shoe (4) SOLD
World-makers, all of them (5) SORTS
No one’s well out of these? (5) SORTS
Spinner gives potter a rest (6) SPIDER
What top people do? (4) SPIN
Daughter of the Revolution? (8) SPINSTER
In which Berliners soak? (5) SPREE (auf trinken! v. UK pub crawl)
Hors d’oeuvre at the races? (7) STARTER
Wildly I simulate, consumed to the core, vibes! (7) STIMULI
Worker bees make them, but one is helpless in them (8) STITCHES
Toast drunk to Christopher Sly, the old weasel! (5) STOAT
Puts up with objective dependent on zero American involvement? Remarkable! (10) STUPENDOUS
Between Greeks, it’s all Greek to a submariner! (9) SUBATOMIC
Music rooms? (5) SUITE
Brief her to take legal action (5) SUSAN
In which a dancer’s ankle was dislocated? (4,4) SWAN LAKE
How should a beginner approach solving the cryptic crossword? (7,7,3,12) SWEDISH TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP
I’ll be hanged! (5) SWING
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Formal wear for dogs (5) TAILS
Exalted quality of Münchausen’s stories (8) TALLNESS
Scottish web of deceivers (7) TANGLED
Fabric of type rats ruin (or moths?) (8) TAPESTRY
Sauce with an infernal flavour! (9) TARTAREAN
Saw one of the team off then? (5) TENON
Her attachment to Poe makes her also write verse (4) TESS
One’s tried to set a precedent (4,4) TEST CASE
Therein Ted is tied (8) TETHERED
1 ac. (Jumbo size) Bergruine-Steinenschloss? (15-8) THALEISCHWEILER-FRÖSCHEN (historically related!)
Subject of Lawrence’s letters about border (5) THEME
Proposition for Merioneth not in order (7) THEOREM
The more disturbing proposition (7) THEOREM
Tea for Two? (3,5,9) THE TIMES CROSSWORD
Weapon used by cat to get a bird (8) TOMAHAWK
Having no head for fashion? (7) TOPLESS
A party of some weight if reorganized (4) TORY
One-man trunk-moving business (7,3,5) TOSSING THE CABER
Carry the device of our betters? (4) TOTE
Rover on land or sea (5) TRAMP
Oddly Crete not Italy gave us this art style (8) TRECENTO
They’re seen round some low Scottish joints (5) TREWS
The first is played by mouth, the second and whole by hand (5,4) TRUMP CARD Times Crossword no. 1,567 from 1935
Verity hurt, in retrospect, about Trump’s lead (5) TRUTH
Friar’s bound to be well-known to schoolboy (4-4) TUCK-SHOP
Lit up new bulb (5) TULIP
1 ac. Cost of a rag? (8,7) TUPPENNY HA’PENNY (my observation of the cost of the 1st Edition of The Daily Universal Register soon to be renamed The Times)
What you will play (7,5) TWELFTH NIGHT
Call it a day? (6-4,5) TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
How is Janus looking? (3-5) TWO-FACED
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This elephant has lost his head (4) UMBO Times crossword no. 1
Having no defence, half the members are gone (7) UNARMED
Maunder about like the Venus de Milo (7) UNARMED
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Caesar’s headless triumph of verse in ghetto haystacks, apparently (13) VERCINGETORIX
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Possessions acquired by breaking the law! (6) WEALTH
Grace initially embraces, for example, Silas (4) WEGG
Mae’s resort clearly dwarfs Putin’s! (6-5-4) WESTON-SUPER-MARE
Resort supreme, sea town? Right (6-5-4) WESTON-SUPER-MARE
Courteous deception of a golf-ball in the snow (5,3) WHITE LIE
“Can I get there by candlelight?” Only if you hurry! (7) WICKLOW
If divided we fall — Adam and she both did arguably! (4) WIFE
Hibernia to the Romans, discussing who first to bury? (6) WINTER
Brass hats are decidedly feminine! (5) WOMEN
Flora’s rings (7) WREATHS
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Mischievous minx? See Maestro! (7) XIMENES
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Your return includes a bill for a boat (5) YACHT
Nobody grows this (7) YOUNGER
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1 ac. Skull and crossbones (9,6) ZYGOMATIC ARCHES
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