Crossword
2197: Missing
Chambers 2014 is certainly not recommended this week theme-wise! But Chambers 2011 is. Across 1 Cuckoo born…
2196: Diverse
Round the perimeter clockwise goes a place (6) followed by a description of it (10 words, one hyphened) by one…
2195: In question
Each clue contains a superfluous word. When these words are put in sequence according to alphabetical order of answers to…
2194: Joe Green
The unclued lights (one of three words and two of two words), individually or as a pair, are of a…
2193: Celebration II
Clockwise round the grid from 31 run the titles of four works (6,3,5,7,5.1,5,7,8,5) associated with a 21 and 25A born…
2192: Never again
Eight unclued lights are of a kind; as is, fancifully, the ninth. Across 6 Hurry up to fill space with…
2191: Bunk
The other unclued entries, in pairs around 3D, provide the key words in a definition of 11D. Across …
2190: Petra
‘1D/19’ (six words in total) is a work by 18/13. Remaining unclued lights form two pairs suggested by 13. …
2189: Offering
One unclued light is the name of a 15A activity requiring the 4A of three things. Answers to clues in…
2188: Pieces of eight
Each unclued light is somehow related to a clued one. Elsewhere, ignore an acute accent. Across 4 …
2187: River and Islands
The ten unclued lights consist of a theme word and three groups of three answers of a kind, each group…
2186: From the off
Unclued lights (two of two words and one doing double duty), singly or paired, reveal some that are to be…
2185: Over the sea — and bridge
Two unclued lights describe the location of the others, individually or as a pair. One of these unclued lights does…
2184: Airline
Nine unclued lights each contain a different 20 from the same source. The title suggests a further such 20. Elsewhere,…
2183: Group theory
Each of 31 clues comprises a definition and a hidden consecutive jumble of the answer including one extra letter; the…
2182: Tops
The unclued lights are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Across 1 Poet has overdose first (5)…
2181: Obit II
The 19 of a great 1A of 6 and for the 1D occurred in 37 25 years ago this month.…
2180: Superfluous
Each of nine clues contains a superfluous word. Initial letters of these words spell a word which can be read…
2179: Cos
The unclued lights are of a specific kind. Additionally each is a legitimate inflected headword in Chambers. Elsewhere, ignore one…
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…
2177: Amaze
The titles of four of an artist’s works (9,7; 6,6; 6,2,4; 12) read clockwise round the perimeter from a square…
2176: ,
The unclued lights (one hyphened, one of two words), individually or as four pairs, are of a kind. Across…
2175: Elated grunt
Across unclued lights combine with down ones to form anagrams of the titles (one of two words) of four works…
2174: Difficulty
Five clues consist of cryptic indications of partial answers; in each case, the indicated part must be treated thematically to…
2173: Men of note
The unclued lights are of a specific kind. Across 11 Top flier backs help for sloth (6)…
