Clues Starting With c Close Chip dip, casually Chosen to succeed some of the lecturers (5) Chair on poles (5) Cupid (4) Change direction (4) Canal boat (5) Criminal secret society originating in Naples in the early 19th century Change gear in frenzy Chair Completed Cocked hat Captivate Cross Country crowd at last sail from shore to island Computer/phone connector (5) Curved strip of bone (3) Cunning creature tucks head down a minute: it brings relief (5) Crowd disturbance, uproar (4) Cold-shoulder (4) Close Chip dip, casually Corsair (6) Clever person (8) Craftsman (7) Customary (5) Carpet nails (5) Cuban dance (5) Christmas Correctness, precision Causing laughter Colouring stick Capital of Angola Capital of Cantabria, Spain Crazy fellow in charge Chap has only to complain Course of therapy Cipher Combat for honour Consequent Ceramics Crew playing cards Conservative Minister lacking some guts - he'll be moving sideways Cook gently in liquid below boiling point (6) Camping canvas (5) Chaste — valets (anag) (6) Continent (6) Converted work into play, perhaps (7) Checks the work of police (7) Customs in various estates (4) Charge (3) Cummerbund (4) Cure (4) Confusion or commotion Cary —, actor who played the title role in 1993 film comedy Robin Hood: Men in Tights City and capital of Ondo State, Nigeria Creature from sewer Choke on joke Changes as to fodder Celestial body Country wants open society brought back Consider route taken as read (5) Catch container caught on rock (5) Clubs avoid habit-forming E number? (8) Casual feature of grain for malting (8) Compass point (4) Conceited (4) Cooking bulb (5) Corpse (4) Cooking vessel (3) Corridor Craftsperson Colour type Crowned head Cummerbund Charlize —, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar-winner for biopic Monster Church has spoken of voices Caught film in trap Cider’s a bizarre cocktail Church music? Coat fastener Centres Conservative Catch sight of Comments Customary Cool online talks with very good content Chaps in A&E turning up for medical treatment Came to an end, holed, leaking fluorine Creative type (8) Cruise with a warmonger's axe or missile (8) Casual feature of grain for malting (8) Compass point (4) Conceited (4) Cooking bulb (5) Corpse (4) Cooking vessel (3) Clever Canine companion of glove puppet Sooty City in the Czech Republic; historical capital of Moravia Cruel sort of complaint Change later, perhaps Conceal skin Colourless-sounding container Container Charged particle Curdling agent Crafts Common word Couple is last in prize list Confirms as true (9) Casual feature of grain for malting (8) Compass point (4) Conceited (4) Cooking bulb (5) Corpse (4) Cooking vessel (3) Celebrity Capital of Chad City in N India famous for the Taj Mahal Complain to a bird Colour of zero scope Consumed by school, say Courage with underwear missing, exceedingly Curved roof Chaste Companion Chess win in two moves? My wife is mine! Crapulent royal fed a long drink? Credit is twice provided in an emergency (6) Coil, spin (5) Candidate (7) Collide with Crack the game Creatures of dementia Classical deity Cooking fat Chess piece (4) Chinese dumpling, usually served in soup (6) Change loose dress (5) Come down with sombre nobleman (9) Chap comes out with those unfair comments (5,4) Can one old line of pillars look different? (9) Caress, being very affectionate with the French (6) Closely studying Post Office telephone call (6) Concluding part (6) Confuses (7) Collide with (3,4) Crib (3) Coil (5) Chairs (5) Complete, total (5) Cricket shot Cost Cash —, jockey who won the 1991 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on Suave Dancer Countryside in Outer Urals Competent Cushion for kneeling on Cut down (7) Croquet or tennis venue (4) Chairperson, possibly, confronting potential killer for entertainment (4-5) Cut in the sack covering makeshift grid (8) Cooked animal flesh (4) Curly lock of hair Corpulent Currency of the majority of members of the European Union Capital of Hesse, Germany on the River Rhine County of the Republic of Ireland whose towns include Clonmel and Nenagh Car dial turned out to be extreme Catch wrong part Caribbean islander Chairs Cold dish Cunning Canvas shelters Crooked Collar Character Cloth Culpability Cooked steak with ham and eggs, at first, in hurry Circulated in a flash to a large audience on the internet (5) Carry it and take the blame (3) Conciliatory gesture (5,6) Cruel treatment (5) City hit hard (4) Clients provide an aid to duplicating (7) Colour (5) Condiment (4) Capital of Vietnam (5) Congeal (3) Competitor (5) Capital of Moselle department, France City in N Brazil on the Amazon River; capital of Amapa state Criticise deity Content with quantity Crazy fellow sports player Clan Cooking vessel Cheered Cricketer Colliery Cooker Corruptly use fiction? That’s easily picked up Chinese chairman brings doctor in for dance Content of a cup at breakfast? (4-6,3) Cowboy gear contributing to colossal turnover (5) Clubman chucking out skinned cat (5) Cooker (5) Corpulent (3) Container (3) Cautious (7) Cry of pain Cleaning cloth Competent Complete Capital of Japan Call to allow curl Cricket match can be a trial Conditions for parts of school year Creepy-sounding lake Chauffeur Christen Care for Curdling agent Celestial object Chew Clumsy Characteristic Compass point Charlie in Berlin, for instance (10) Candied stalks used in cake decoration — nag Alice (anag) (8) Convert finally changed priest for one offering better advice (7) Cooker (5) Corpulent (3) Container (3) Cautious (7) City in southern Ontario, Canada associated with the automobile industry Come in from barren terrain Couple from the French circle Corrupt foundation Container Clear riverbed Composed Church seat Cause College officials Calf meat Cooks stocks along with recipe for famous courses Count golf shot, without ball rising Comfortably off (4-6) Cut up (6) Cooker (5) Corpulent (3) Container (3) Cautious (7) Cave-dwelling creature Crash together violently City in W Russia on the Oka River Catch sight of Cold drink in summery Spain is sweet Clean area on the French ship Clemency, tolerance (8) Cover for doctor and primate (5) Canine mammal (3) Commercial (10) Crash helmet part Capital of Nigeria Chris —, 1956 Olympic 3,000m steeplechase gold medallist Collective noun for a group of lions Cry about table Christmas decoration Compliment Car pedal Cut CBI role model apparently giving high spirits to a bit of a tit in Government Copper led around small account, but it's a dead end Clergymen producing church decrees Cattle thief who makes a noise? (7) Crowd (6) Calm (7) Cantankerous old person who's against burying muck in drive (10) Champion rugby player working at hospital department (9) Compile extraordinary argument (7) Cutting part of the wings (6) Colour adds nothing to scope (6) Customarily live here (7) Chide (5) Conspiracy Chief city Close friend Concur Clifford —, author of the stage plays Waiting for Lefty and Clash by Night Close-textured fabric of cotton, silk or spun rayon woven with lengthwise ribs Categorise a bell incorrectly Crypt Change course Charred remains Conductor’s baton Church dignitary Compulsive boozer's consuming interest is drawing Charlie and I see her sadly becoming more tacky Change (5) Cabinet minister's first name, meaning 'wise man' (5) Cheese left, acknowledge unfinished (4,5) Correct, somewhat vindicated I thought (4) Country (6) Croon (4) Cavities (5) Challenges (5) Cover (3) Chest bones (4) Cigar type Choice City in Ravenna, Italy that houses an International Museum of Ceramics Cylindrical clay oven used in India and Pakistan Crazy clubs Charge novice to touch Carol turned a shade of pink Chap’s found what’s left Cereal crop Currency unit Condemn Counterfeit Crush together to restrict a Frenchman in survival drama Country stunner appearing in art house cut Cupboard space (7) Colour of the Owl and the Pussy-Cat's boat (3-5) Clara's upset by the scoundrel (6) Changes direction... (5) Cosmetic preparation dispatched, we hear (5) Conspiracy (5) Chime (4) Canvas shelters (5) Contends Christian —, French couturier noted for his New Look Common viper with a zigzag pattern along its back Cathedral city in Staffordshire; birthplace of Samuel Johnson City and state capital of Western Australia Credit single old woman Cast aside - is not happy on the surface Catch fish after net's torn Cabbage and pastry? That's not unknown Cruel ambassador with no diplomatic skills (9) Cut duty for practise without hesitation (6) Cause fall in LA when turning head to right? (6) Close shaves? (7) Caribou (8) Cruel (6) Clean feathers (5) Concealed or secret (6) Cleaning cloth (6) Cemetery worker CGS unit of work or energy Conceited about mugs Changes side to the Spanish fuel Counter Contest Crossbreed Cold dish Commanding Clean up one's act (6) Crazy money? It's on credit! (8) Correct, sport — ion is a particle (8) Came across reactionary for a moderate (6) Careers masters forced to take care of PE department — that's not right! (9) Cut corners — someone in charge originally needs to be disciplined (9) Close shaves? (7) Caribou (8) Cruel (6) Clean feathers (5) Concealed or secret (6) Cleaning cloth (6) Colour of zero scope Captain has fitting Correct, ordinarily, about cleric College of note, possibly Cunning Clergyman Considers Church seat Catch sight of Collection of maps Cleopatra foolishly drinking in the morning - this to feel better? Close shaves? (7) Caribou (8) Cruel (6) Clean feathers (5) Concealed or secret (6) Cleaning cloth (6) Cut of beef Capital and largest city of Indiana Cricket shot hit over the boundary without the ball touching the ground Creature of romance Cricket match can be a trial Changes as to fodder Chant Crude house tune of a salty nature Criminal dares dope to get high Coincide; concur (5) Clubs with lofty aims (5) Capacity to get on after bitterness? (6) Complete (4) Concur (5) Conditions (5) Conradin —, German composer of 1834 opera The Night Camp in Granada Clover-like plant; national symbol of Ireland Colour of zero scope Chunk forms obstruction Compassion at raid gets complaint Charming with member Conflict Cardiac arrest Container Came to a vigil in the graveyard at last (8) Consciousness that a fight has a strange sense (9) Compact, but three miles long (6) Cooking fat (4) Chuck (5) Counteracting remedy Commercial Consistent as me, perhaps Comparable Capri; so terribly dull Crazy about ... about ... about vision Con artist enemy of Batman changing US party allegiance initially Carbon monoxide poisoning's beginning to permeate numerous soldiers Cricketing reprieve (3,3) Card game played in casinos (8) Cast iron contains note for use within the home (6) Colour of restored building: timeless (4-3) Charles Roe initially is twice at the turning-point (6) Can't he serve without delay? (6) Country (5) Clergyman Chart of the twelve months Conradin —, German composer of 1834 opera The Night Camp in Granada Clover-like plant; national symbol of Ireland Challenged out of dread Crossing a flyer Contemporary with part-timer Course right for ship Creature of pride? Commendation Cloak Clean, orderly Celebrity’s foremost lot on an islet, cavorting group of stars Colonel ___ , David Low's pompous army officer cartoon character (5) Comprehensive — detailed (2-5) Cart for taking prisoners to the guillotine (7) Conductor against accepting old van on motorway (9) Colourful result of hitting buffers? (7) Craft gathering round a major vessel (5) Crime associated with a member of the firing squad? (5) Cures (5) Characteristic (5) Cut off (5) Cosh Considerate Concerning Cope City in S France whose Roman remains include an amphitheatre and the Pont du Gard aqueduct Cat to get married Cake or small ice cream Cast worth using Chinese food item Chuck Charge impressed English Charge Germany following hostility Courage to carry on (6) Covent Garden fare? (5) Climbing shrub with fragrant flowers (11) Conjecture (5) Come to terms (or to rest) (6) Consumed (5) Coastal town on the Isle of Thanet (11) Composer didn't have 'unfinished', with end of symphony penned (5) Corporation documents, puffed up (5) Contract secured by quail for device used on American rails (10) Cook cooks old birds (6) Crook like Nero? (7) Culpability (5) Cookers (5) Coast (7) Courtier in the William Shakespeare play Hamlet Chris —, 2013 Tour de France-winning cyclist Corrupt foundation Check the others have bad weather Concentrate of perfume Copy from paper Consumed by school, say Chewed English snack Catch Casserole Charges Catch sight of Cord Councillor in type of work involving old, old fashion item Cryptic behaviour? I cite Nimrod’s puzzling Church in Spain covered in material that’s black and red Conciliate (7) Conductor of the London 'Proms' from their start in 1895 until his death in 1944 (3,5,4) Concealed intentions (6,6) Closing plant? Case of farewell, have fun in retirement (7) Carpet to cover floor (5,4) Country song about American hotel, essentially (7) Comes out of European Union, mostly with backing of idiots (7) Cover of Escort: a celebrity back issue (7) Crook like Nero? (7) Culpability (5) Cookers (5) Coast (7) Curving inwards Continental quilt Court card Contort the face Collective noun for a group of snipe Chris —, IBF Heavyweight champion from 2002-06 City in Indiana, US on the Ohio River home to Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden Content with quantity Changes as to fodder Communist of more density Catch in one trap Colour Chilled Craft succeeded in seconds Chinwag (4) Countless (6) Container (for nerves?) (3) Colour of unbleached linen (4) Crook like Nero? (7) Culpability (5) Cookers (5) Coast (7) Cover and extend beyond Chooses Commonly approved or recognized Contrite Cancellation includes room Clambering with youngster Chinese staple Clown Prince's content: one with four siblings Causes injury with dogs having slipped lead? Coil; roll together (8) Cupidinous; wanton (7) Ceremonial symbol for the typists and clerks! (5,2,6) Contrives to fix games of snooker (6) Counting frame (6) Cause the ruin of (2,3) Choose (6) Chafe (3) Cringe (5) Charge (3) Chinese martial art Cheat or betray Capital of Vietnam Cadge from cleaner Comic party Clone Rob’s ruler Child of resonance Counter Crazy Celebration Colour Cooking vessel Chap with an apple (4) Cheese and fruit mostly served with minced beef (9) Composer's toasted sandwiches have a good filling (8) Cathedral city where church converted Sartre (8) Corporal returned with new mail to give out (8) Chewy stuff made from corn for grinding on sides of ledge (7) Colonist's dog crossing lake (7) Cleaner works forever on TV! (4,6) Communist agent, one withholding sensitive information (8) Choice between meathead and fool? What a mess (6) Covering an inclusion in material for printing (6) Coming just before Christmas (6) Connected musical works for three-piece combination? (5) Coffee type (8) Cigar type (9) Container (6) Cuban capital (6) Coagulate (4) Courage (4) Completely Cue game Chris —, 1992 Olympic 4,000m individual pursuit cycling gold medallist City in Germany; leading administrative centre of the Ruhr Clipped round edge City for cavorting pairs Collapsed round part of chapel Clear cover contains union key Classify a bell incorrectly Centre Church recess Curse spread about trip abroad in religious writing Conservative guy's house across the pond Councillor's gutted by Oxford's river disaster (6) Culinary result of the taxidermist's action! (8) Clothes I treat badly (6) Could be one who takes their rest during the day? (5,7) Cooker top (3) Consume (3) Country road (4) Computer programs Crowded mass of people or things Code word for I Courteous Condition of being unwell City in Japan; target in 1945 of the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area Charitable organization that began as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief in 1942 College of note, possibly Courageous Crooked Cut off a bit Completely naked (2,7) Combat (5) Come to bed and behave inappropriately? (5,6) Cabinet selectively calm IRA hotheads (7) Close to being stingy (4) Carpus (5) Cactus gets a German greeting Carve out of the wood Chatting about headgear Chop CLOSE OFF ROME AND BERLIN? Case of family retaining no memory – weird, if you ask me Constant request for pin? Criminal is more violent around summer time City wants ballet, but with much more water! Copious (8) Concealed (6) Confident expectation (5) Can use spoon (4) Certainly not one of the big spenders (5) Cakes required for wedding officials (5,2,6) Cattle coming from another direction (4) Casting a line into an article (8) Completely enclose a navigational aid (7) Check a bit of boisterous temper (4) Close friend (3) Country (7) Chrysalis (4) Crossbow arrow (4) Challenges (5) Corner (5) Compact (5) Clean feathers (5) Cribs Cardinal number Coach City in SW Spain near the Portuguese border at the confluence of the Odiel and Tinto Rivers Criticised Sunday joint and journalist Cockerel Concurred Commendation Cooked in oven Chair Conclude network's regressed? That's annoying Couple on the radio distressed chum? That’s excessive Colliery (but not yours!) (4) Cryptically, it is a busy commercial area (4,6) Case of regressive fascist is for shrink (6) Check report of sport glasses (8) Certainly not one of the big spenders (5) Cakes required for wedding officials (5,2,6) Cattle coming from another direction (4) Casting a line into an article (8) Completely enclose a navigational aid (7) Check a bit of boisterous temper (4) Close friend (3) Country (7) Chrysalis (4) Crossbow arrow (4) Challenges (5) Corner (5) Compact (5) Clean feathers (5) Cut off Causes to remember Cruel, harsh Cyber note Comic book Gaul created by Albert Uderzo and Rene Goscinny City in Rajasthan, NW India on the Chambal River Chap to get married Clever, nowadays, at pet management Creature of romance Comes in for logs Corrects Consumed Colour Contrive Chieftain Crime, such as murder or arson (6) Certainly not one of the big spenders (5) Cakes required for wedding officials (5,2,6) Cattle coming from another direction (4) Casting a line into an article (8) Completely enclose a navigational aid (7) Check a bit of boisterous temper (4) Close friend (3) Country (7) Chrysalis (4) Crossbow arrow (4) Challenges (5) Corner (5) Compact (5) Clean feathers (5) City in Lombardy; chief financial centre of Italy Carl —, German composer of oratorio Carmina Burana Churlish about fling Catholic student, always smart Croat turned performer Cat wants mouse's heart brought in as soon as Clear directions when entering old address Core: perfume (7) Chignon: flatfish (7) Clerical material (5) Carriage axle bush for instance (7) Concerning (5) Coach (5) Confuse (6) Cask (6) Conflagration Clenched hand Cooks in hot water Cosmetic item Callous Christian holy book Capital of the former Spanish Sahara; largest city of the disputed territory of Western Sahara City in Mexico; capital of Jalisco state County of the Republic of Ireland whose county town is Portlaoise Consume in one attempt Contented with accommodation Confusing place to hold one crop Cry like this to bishop Couple also heard Consume in one attempt Contented with accommodation Confusing place to hold one crop Cry like this to bishop Couple also heard Conciliated (8) Celtic fan, perhaps, sawing a leg off (10) Come ashore, admitting being a laird? (10) Copy restriction? Not at first (9) Characters from Norfolk now nationally famous (5) Comment about jam pudding (4,4) Contracted rubbish collector goes round travelling on two wheels (8) Critical examinations of light entertainments, we hear (7) Cosy little place for retirement (6) Cummerbund (4) Corrosive substance (4) Christmas decoration (6) Confusion (5) Coin of low value (5) Colour (3) Chief seaport of western Syria C P —, author of the novels Homecomings and Time of Hope Contract lawyers make a profit Carton's inside around five wanting a bit of tea - that's Sydney's afternoon! Christmas fuel (4,3) Chinese martial art (4,2) City in Lombardy — am a nut (anag) (6) Come again? (5) Crop cutter against visiting hospital department for period of recovery (4,5) Content to thank Fed for word game (7) Celebrated reason for being unable to visit the restaurant! (7) Class distinction is rejected, we hear (5) Completely saintly, by the sound of it (6) Castle surround (4) Crease (4) Container for liquids Cake decoration Cabin Contented with the bivvy Continuing like this before long Chap has only small gripes Contented with the bivvy Continuing like this before long Chap has only small gripes Clock American magazine article? Courtly love but no husband for this regretful lady Commoners vote, enduring hard claims for attention Complaint from Tees before son gets stuck into the beers Catty 6 Down? Cheese rom South Holland (5) Come clean (3,2) Circus performer (7) Crew member pocketing a charm (4) Communist at present making a comeback – that's a remarkable thing (6) Competent (4) Curved (4) Concession, bribe (3) Completely (10) Card suit (5) Claw Capital of Haute-Garonne department in France Clipper ship built in 1869 that has been in dry dock at Greenwich since 1954 Catalina —, 2004 Olympic balance beam and floor exercise gold medallist Capital of Italy Credit single witch Content with quantity Correct, ordinarily, about cleric Credit single witch Content with quantity Correct, ordinarily, about cleric Core (6) Confused mess (6) Chinese city — Swiss state (6) Caught bringing in line put out (7) Composer and artist traversing the way from Paris to Marseilles (8) Centre half in home game is fab (4) Compete over parts in theatre — one gets them in shows (8) Cunning (3) Cooks in an oven (6) Colonises (7) Causing laughter (7) Cash register Cab Cut short Counting frame City in Alpes-Maritimes, France on the Mediterranean Sea Colourless gas formed by an electric discharge in water Croat turned performer Credit notes for every vine Crazy limit is impulsive Croat turned performer Credit notes for every vine Crazy limit is impulsive Conflict (6) Constable, say (7) Cruel perversion of son stopping legendary king's return (6) Crush food prepared and consumed with right filling (10) Came up about promotion that’s simply balanced City day out? This is the worst part Cunning (3) Cooks in an oven (6) Colonises (7) Causing laughter (7) Creche Careless Casino counter Conflict fought from 1853-56 between Russia and an alliance of Turkey, Britain, France and Sardinia City in Nevada, US noted as a gambling and divorce centre Cricket shot that touches the ground before crossing the boundary Chap gets record assistance Cricket team’s legs Called after parking accident Cleric doesn’t finish border Chap gets record assistance Cricket team’s legs Called after parking accident Cleric doesn’t finish border Colour seen in loch recently Christopher gets numbers of small pets City girl showing form Cunning (3) Cooks in an oven (6) Colonises (7) Causing laughter (7) Card game Counterfoil Ceases Continuous stream or discharge Charles —, American modernist composer of the four-movement A Symphony: New England Holidays Cavalier King Charles spaniel with chestnut-and-white markings Care about some land Container sounds colourless Come in from barren terrain Care about some land Container sounds colourless Come in from barren terrain Ceremonial splendour; peak, prime (4) Crude petroluem used for candles; kerosine in UK (8) Centre; heart (5) Continuously: without a strategic plan (4,3,2,3) Chuck; lob (4) Capture – but not while the sun is shining? (4,2,5) Cold dish (5) Close to (4) Concealment of a crime Cookers Ceremonial splendour Capital of Corsica City for cavorting pairs Condiment for fruit? Impudence! Chart Celebs inching extremely close to John Virgo, say Concise when penning article about British conchie Creator of said Holy Land? Conjecture sport will return after one month Cut good wood Challenging circuit is to lap old university Chap with no money having switched sides Come to nothing (4,7) Capital of Belarus (5) Clover-like plant — Omsk arch (anag) (8) Christmas tree decorations (5,6) Composed of similar elements (11) Caution for foul play (4) Clothes on fire? (7) Coachmen transported American people (8) Creature with partly laminated back (6) Craftsman puts single mother and boy on the street (10) Continental quilt (5) Cinder (5) Comedian (5) Crime against the state Chuck Cut of beef from the breast of an animal Cocktail whose ingredients include rum, grenadine, orgeat, lime juice and sugar Caribbean republic whose capital is Roseau Co-winner with Jamie Spencer of the 2007 flat racing jockey championship Colour of zero scope Clairvoyant Company function recalled by wild yeti (7) Count on getting extremely lucky (4) Counteracting remedy (8) Claw (5) Country (6) Charge (3) Cut wool from (5) Chops wildly Completely Clinically overweight Code word for Z Celebrity Chemical element; symbol Pb Chap is on form in residence Creature less cold in the East End? Contacted with sensitivity Continuing like this before long Church council Common word Clatter Conspiracy County reduced planting locations Conductor seen in the morning behind a tree Chart-topping songs (4) Cut into pieces (4) Cake topping (5) Catch drivers' panel ignoring punctuation (5) Complain bitterly (4) Cheese type (4) Cease living (3) Change (5) Colour (6) Cricket stick Car fuel Conservative Collection of ancient Welsh prose stories including tales about King Arthur Costume that’s out of this world Collect a great deal Cut in personnel Cost Collier Clergymen or board members Di dismissed Capital city taking back a famous inventor with love Capital invested in Joan of Arc casually returned? Confer with confused player Combined (6) Crushed to powder (6) Cookery book contents (7) Copy one ship's officer who swallows it (7) Curse the clothes they put on in the south (5) Comfort in distress (6) Curved structure (4) Clan (5) Cooked animal flesh (4) Condition (5) Clyde, for example (5) Chest bone City in Yvelines, France where the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783 City and tourist centre in Lombardy, Italy, housing the Villa Olmo Charlton —, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar winner for Ben-Hur Clear, hard, usually blue variety of corundum used as a gemstone Coughed and committed computer crime Celebrated being doomed, say Contented with accommodation Chopped Chilly Curved structure Caribbean island Canvas shelter Contest for gun-runners? Country song about people Cutting deal, regularly handle hard stuff (6) Copy one ship's officer who swallows it (7) Curse the clothes they put on in the south (5) Comfort in distress (6) Curved structure (4) Clan (5) Cooked animal flesh (4) Condition (5) Clyde, for example (5) Conflict Corrode Capital of Macedonia Colin —, winner of the 1995 World Rally Drivers' Championship Creature less cold in the East End Consume in one attempt Confectionery Carmen and Tosca? Cogs Characters from Capri on another island Colour supplement? (8) Covered in soap suds (8) Copy one ship's officer who swallows it (7) Curse the clothes they put on in the south (5) Comfort in distress (6) Curved structure (4) Clan (5) Cooked animal flesh (4) Condition (5) Clyde, for example (5) Complete Copper gets point of signal City shelter is hidden Canter off in a daze Cashier Chief Conceited Chuck Companion Curved structure City said to be pink Crazy about eastern drink made from honey Country star accepting Russian agreement Chandler, oddly, holds good sponge Come again; happen once more (5) Came to an end and shut up (6) Cupid (4) Counterfoils (5) Contorts (6) Cut off (5) Cure for all ills Corner Commanding or authoritative Chris —, 1978 Australian Open women's singles tennis champion Capital of Malawi Capital of Morocco Come out east and join Close Climb Cog Conflict in publicity for Oscar, Tony, etc Cut like a baby? (6) Craftsman sadly cremates partner (6,9) Copper added note for receptacles (4) Country where father is caught in immoral action (5) Choristers who are officiating at the Church Bazaar? (5-7) Chambermaid's workplace (5) Collision, conflict (5) Charge for ring Cat on small salver Claim to be having beer with member Cancellation includes room Chewed European snack Climbing round branch Competent Charred remains Chime Current group of students Collection of facts (4) Croatian capital (6) Complete successfully (6) Cocktail made with tequila and citrus fruit juice (9) Cursed (5) Copper and tin alloy (6) Change of heart in right-wing city of old (4) Clear standard breached by training policy proposals by government (5,5) Chorus (7) Cooking vessel (3) Couch (6) Clumsy Corrosive substance Customers collectively Chews and swallows Christmas Chap accepts eastern cap Conceal the skin Cheer around circuit Cat, eg Cold dish Company car is ordered for island Cushion concerning chaplain Charitable gift for worker on strike Crumpled horn protecting one animal Conveniences on top of cathedral? Not exactly! Church with weapons? Lucky things! Code word for O (5) Confiscate drugs (cocaine) with passion (7) Customs applications (4) Coach Close with a bang Choose Cheat or deceive Capital of Chile Cloris —, Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar winner for The Last Picture Show City in Russia at the confluence of the Om and Irtysh rivers Chap in vehicle is a corpse City of Czechoslovakia Cowardly Creature Central point (5) Cross about dates with duke — not thinking clearly (7) Covering miles — some flipping walk! (5) Current head of government turning into wino — that's awkward! (7) Coach - or coaches (5) Concentrated on a point in tennis perhaps (7) Continue being eager to hold work up (4,2) Condition (5) Concerning (5) Cult (4) Concurs (6) Confusing and not obvious Cured or smoked ham Climb or ascend City in NE Romania; a former capital of the country Corrosion-resistant copper alloy used in silver-coloured coins Chapel is sent travelling around Italy Charge on time and distance Cover terrible evil Cultured, at heart, Mozart is tickled Chapel in Rome Card game Celebrated Creative Convert to ice Cul-de-sac (2,7,4) Consume a huge amount (from a nosebag?) (3,4,1,5) Casually inconsiderate (7) Counterpart of Dancing Queen? It keeps John twirling (10) Come to a stop in lake in Panama, say (4) Coach - or coaches (5) Concentrated on a point in tennis perhaps (7) Continue being eager to hold work up (4,2) Condition (5) Concerning (5) Cult (4) Concurs (6) Comments Croon Cot Concur Collective name for the islands of the Pacific Ocean Colourless double sulphate of aluminium and potassium used in dressing leather Change later, possibly Children have small editions Confused ways of moving back and forth Child of resonance Consumed more than seven, reportedly Conscious Chuck Cast one kept in outbuilding Corn I found in labyrinth Clothes (4) Coach - or coaches (5) Concentrated on a point in tennis perhaps (7) Continue being eager to hold work up (4,2) Condition (5) Concerning (5) Cult (4) Concurs (6) Card game Curly hairstyle Celestial body Cardinal number County town of County Tyrone in Northern Ireland Copper gets point of signal Cheap variety of food Chap gets record aid Cathy’s new boat Crib Crest Conflict, disagreement County with a fringe on top? Criminal case which is straightforward and conclusive (4,3,4) Chinese cooking method (4-3) Chesty? (anag) (6) Can't stand; can't abide (6) Cay; eyot (5) Charge for a ring (4) Creatures obtained from a whelk-stall (4) Criminal, wrongdoer (10) Curved sword Christmas hymn Californian tree also called a white oak City in Bulgaria on the Danube near the border with Romania City in Scotland on the River Lossie that houses a ruined cathedral Come in from barren terrain Crow around boats Clowns get depressed Chief city Colour shade Clumsy Cook knighted in a movie Cost associated with Light Brigade? Cowardly shout — ouch! Carbon black (4) Covered in spun threads? (8) Children showing high energy (9) Contribution to out-take is reversed! (5) Complex fellow takes fish back into work (7) Consumption makes a comeback during week at Nice (6) Caption giving information in form of light (6) Crowd can live with hollow victory (4) Cope successfully with atmospherics? (7) Creep removes both names from rave report (6) Cares about competitions (5) Concerning a morning's papers (5) Check an open invitation to shoplifters (4,5) Charm (6) Childish fit of rage (7) Cautious (7) Clean with water Coloured arc Cost Charles —, 1970 Commonwealth 400m gold medallist Chessman also called a castle Cleric has finished with gold Chap gets record assistance Chose new depot Clergyman Cord Clergymen soon appearing in empty churches Coffee bean producer (7) Cheeky whippersnapper — Japan's cake (anag) (10) Circular coral reef (5) Cure (4) Counting frame (6) Container (3) Change in form (6) Cup part Costing nothing Crease Curved roof Chessman of the lowest theoretical value Charming about damage Cease boiling pots Chilly Currency units Creature Curved structure Colours seen in muddy estuary Church is sheltering right boy or girl Cook — quiz (5) Car dumps English fruit (6) Cowboy or ranger's helping on way up ravine (6) Country river, Russian one (5) Check him: the game's up! (4) Clubs that allow the golfer no freedom? (5) Conform again in age (5) Correct political wing? (5) Cure (6) Contagious disease (7) Cover and extend beyond (7) Cowardly (6) Cold Spanish soup Cricket delivery that pitches too far away from a batsman and is deemed an extra City in Croatia on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea Cricket match can be a trial Courage Caught sight of Condescend Condiment Crockery item Change, say, with love for intimate friend Curt (5) Certain to fail (8) Combine (5) Courting daughter with giant fiddle (6) City official tracking the movement of Sterling? (9) Cliches etc thus translated to cover new section (9) Climbing mountains with peaks of snow hurts a little (6) Censures, informally (6) Cheroot, for example (5) Cereal plant (5) Cooking vessel (3) Cavalry sword (5) Coral island of Japan administered by the US from 1945-72 Capital of the Bahamas Clapped around course Commander of a fleet Canadian province Curve Cherish Circuit Crippled Casserole Conclusion (6) Coy orphan, age uncertain, a subject for deep study (12) Cut in front of corporal? Censures, informally (6) Cheroot, for example (5) Cereal plant (5) Cooking vessel (3) Cavalry sword (5) Condition of sticking together Cricket team; winners of the County Championship in 1991 and 1992 C A —, West Indies Test cricketer who took 5-54 against India in 1987 at both Delhi and Mumbai Creator of fictional detective and gourmand Nero Wolfe Consequently alter form Cleopatra owns lion Creatures of dementia City can produce tongue Cherub Yvonne acquires gemstone Chore Colouring Caterer breaking bank Conductor sent up, by the sound of it Castrated male chicken (5) Cor blimey! (2,4) Country, capital Zagreb (7) Curving in and out (7) Censures, informally (6) Cheroot, for example (5) Cereal plant (5) Cooking vessel (3) Cavalry sword (5) Cardinal number Clip with scissors Convey much significant information Clarified butter used in Indian cookery Comic actor who played the title roles in BBC TV sitcoms Clarence and The Magnificent Evans Charles —, 19th-century founder of a symphony orchestra in Manchester Carlo —, Italian author of 1945 memoir Christ Stopped at Eboli Capital of French Guiana Canter off in a daze Children’s edition Creature of pride Claw Conspiracy Cooler that is cold inside Customer is right in court Cockney's borough reported skin complaint Cruel wealth (5) Consternation among the national armed forces (5) Comfort in distress (6) Couple (4) Cabin (3) Cant (5) Colloquial language Current of cold air Chris —, actor whose roles have included Tommy O'Dwyer in 2005 comedy-drama film Festival Character such as that placed under the c in French name Francois that softens the sound from that of k to s Credit donkey, being stupid Consternation about flyer Choke on a joke Catch in one trap Close Clothes fastener Coach Counter Choose one parent as the best Capital of France — not just a place of entertainment Consequences of working at the farm Crooner with old game Code for I (5) Connect (4) Cyst (5) Committee said umpire is wrong (10) Cover of record featuring foreign novel (7) Creator of Adam and Eve eating original fruit (5) Castle surround (4) Come into view (6) Close with a bang (4) Charged particles Capital of Moselle department, France Carl —, US minimalist sculptor whose works include 144 Magnesium Square and Equivalent VIII Channel 4 sketch series featuring the village of Stoneybridge that ran from 1989-93 Church has genuine breakfast Colour cries out with energy Contest Crop Corrosive substance Cut tail off bird Collier goes to Virginia to see a goddess City in Mali, a centre of trading and Islamic scholarship from the 15th century (8) Complicated birth involving oxygen and end of term clots (7) Cat's coat in far from smooth condition (8) Closes (5) Cut off (5) Capital of Vietnam (5) Chronic drunkard (3) Competitor (5) Crisis Couple Chris —, Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh from 2005-13 Chap gets record aid Copies of tapestry Call for some jewellery Confused seal drinks Captain has fitting Circle Corsair Coterie pouring fluid Container ship? Collier (5) Content of computer wiper twice by me, ie foolishly in online fraud? (10) Clue in Telegraph intractable (4) Colourful cutlery in Canada? (11) Communion table (5) Change (5) Cosh Cosmetic item Cut with an axe Cricket term Colourless liquid formerly used as an inhaled anaesthetic during surgery City in Virginia nearby which were fought two Battles of Bull Run in the US Civil War Carmelita —, 2011 World Championships 100m gold medallist Christoph —, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar winner for Inglourious Basterds Characteristic of bird captivates artist County has trite form of dwelling Chairs Cleaning ladies Charming Clergyman going round a power plant Characters in magazine were more up-to-date Countries in turmoil and so on Church taking measure of current title-holder Counter-revolutionary clobber Campanile (6) Character in Sophocles married sexually open-minded figures (6) Crib (3) Continental quilt (5) Capture (5) Chess piece Christopher —, 1984 Olympic figure skating ice dancing gold medallist with Jayne Torvill Colour of the ball worth two points in snooker City in N Honshu, Japan; an important feudal town in the 8th century Churches either side of the head? Costume custom Change during meditation Cut in personnel Crossed out Cumulative Crow seen at first in vessel Clever clogs (4-3) Chopin, Vivaldi and Scarlatti initially in vogue (3) Changes in volume, namely before coda in revised score (10) Crib (3) Continental quilt (5) Capture (5) Chuckle in amusement Course right for ship Choose from selection Craft Cot Care about size of field? Completely at home with Dorothy's dog Cheer (7) Carrot (or maggot?) 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(9) City retreat upset churchman (6) Cut short a book's English verbatim translation that's miles out (10) Called in religion a meditation (5) Cover up what many like to observe (6) Contest which finally leads to de-bagging? (4,4) Caledonian Street houses the company (4) Card suit (5) Croon (4) Cupid (4) Criminal organisation (5) Cults (5) Closed in, restricted Course through the air of an aircraft Current Cooks in hot water Coat with sleeves that continue to the collar instead of having armhole seams Count as substance Copper gets point of signal Complain to bird Chewed English snack Chap has only to complain Creature found within group Criticise when Lisa gets upset Cipher Companion Creepy-crawly Compel Collector’s item Cook to carve ham College window Campaign to overhaul used car Capital of Azerbaijan (4) Catches the eye (6,3) Can I spoil first drink (7) Clue to make WAG punish cleaner (7-2,6) Case Len resolved to clear up (7) Curved structure (4) Complete extent (4) Card suit (6) Completed (4) Cease operations Cold season Childishly immature Capital of the Netherlands County of the Republic of Ireland whose towns include Clones and Carrickmacross City in Louisiana on the Vermilion River Cyrus —, US Secretary of State from 1977-80 Crook removed top of shoe Challenged out of dread Come back for profit Catch sight of Courageous Chewy sweet Ceramics Claw Curved structures Colour Coat may be problem for dog Citadel rebuilt, in a manner of speaking Country-lover having little time after half past three Constable’s first to have a rotten thug arrested Case of dirty clothing isn't nice (6) County ground showing initial score (7) Clever and almost completely correct (6) Could ling remedy the girl's cold? (7) Cuban cigar (6) Continent (4) Colour (6) Cause to attack (3,2) Casino counter (4) Child's nursemaid (5) Commanded (7) Creatures in soil (5) Come into flower Complain bitterly City and seaport in Washington, US; seat of the University of Puget Sound Church has the edge in felony Content with quantity Claim to have beer with member Changes as to fodder Compensate by sending a note Contort Colonise Clatter Cherish Cereal from a south coast town Containers stop overturning Carry out a hit (11) Calculated use of violence against civilians in order to achieve some goal (9) Character — image (7) Certain to restrain organised workers in a stitch-up (6) Criticism coming with IT? I celebrate converting for use with computers (10) Chinese food — something boring, not much good? (7) Cat-walks? (6) Conceal half of it as secret (6) Common (7) Colour Capital of Pas-de-Calais, France known for its tapestries Call to allow some hair Call woman to be seated Curl Cures Curmudgeon has to get over repair Cannibal leader is very fond of spice Couples getting approval inside and outside Card trick taking in broadcasters, say (8) Cricketer less streamlined after a couple of starters for lunch (3-7) Contests securing figure London theatre parts (10) Channel's special feature (6) Cat-walks? (6) Conceal half of it as secret (6) Common (7) Copy the actions of City in the Czech Republic; historical capital of Moravia Cesar —, Swiss hotelier who died in 1918 Consumed more than seven, say Come out east and join Claxon gets loose Crease Christian festival Constables not entirely competent Chafes (4) Crucifix (4) Cat-walks? (6) Conceal half of it as secret (6) Common (7) Cowboy’s leather leggings Constable in the William Shakespeare play Measure for Measure College of note, possibly Care about tree Conversed about poetry Cereal crop Chuck Confess Character Composer joining three short women Cut when Chopin drops in Cardinal, ordinal, musical – or 4, perhaps (6) Correct, as text (5) Company doctor at a fight (6) Cuban dance (5) Chairs (5) Commotion (6) Comedians (6) Cruel, vicious (6) Cutlery item (5) Celebrity (4) Contort the face Cutlery item Card of the highest ranking suit in the game of bridge Crime writer whose 2007 debut novel was Die with Me City in the Saone valley, France; a centre of wine production Choose from selection Colourful fuel that’s squeezed Conscious of a battle to the east Couple also heard Charming woman left out of group Cut out (4) Cop it badly, after lie about fast connection (5,5) Contemplate change in friend (8) Capital's name finally included in new airport (8) Closely follow the scandal of the Three Blind Mice? (8) Could bridge be called this complicated? (6) Celebrity making one gawp endlessly (4) Crazy male's out to become close buddy (4,4) Churchill is victorious — then not, after upset (7) Chief to start the pump working (5) Closer (6) Choose (6) Compass point Colour type City and resort in SE Florida, US City and port in E Jutland, Denmark Conceal the skin Canter off in a daze Consumer Christmas decoration Couple of punches beginning to count Container not very bright, we hear Crazy person accompainies girl for spice Communist leader left number rising Competed (4) Cairn or Airedale, say (7) Caught fish and made a clear profit (6) Clear-cut description of doubtful practices (5) Change later (5) Commercial mail for outlying business centre (7,4) Close friend (3) Chess term Close friend Court case Change in form Capital of Taiwan Central of the three small bones in the middle ear, also called the anvil Common bird of ponds and lakes with a black plumage and red bill Challenged out of dread Carriage has a quantity of diamonds Charge for ring Coach gets no new dividend Clenched hand Counter Child Child's figurine Cold dish Chime Cafe Confectioner's first to discover truth about sweet Choose artist for legendary Greek daughter Calumny (7) Closest possible finish (4,4) Charm school finally ran the training (7) Confirms boxer goes out after victory (9) Climbing on top of sink, laid a tile (7) Colorant (3) Colour (3) Celebrity Concur Curved structure Croat turned performer Church has genuine breakfast Cut personnel Condensation Captivate Central Communist Party backing stranger Country contributing to Afghan appeal Church area making capital hot Cross river with one sort of light Cunning (4) Chit-chat (4,4) Curved fruit (6) Cretan princess who helped Theseus escape the Minotaur (7) Complete muddle — Feds ask Bogart (anag) (4,9) Contents list (5) Customised leather rafts sail over the edge, if they're right (4-8) Clash finished? Not quite and few may understand it (6) Criminal attacked one left out (5) Consider the teams but don't be impartial (4,5) Chatter (6) Cheerful (5) Carpus (5) Completely false story Code word for the letter L City in Rajasthan, India; an historic capital of the kingdom of Mewar Clement —, British prime minister from 1945-51 Component of traditional Chinese medicine in which metal needles are inserted into the skin Conversed about poetry Common type of judge Coupon Chuck Country road Child’s enclosure Celebrations Cold enclosure for birds missing last luxury food Consumer warning (6,6) Checker, perhaps, who won't be sticking at twenty-one (7) Consider the teams but don't be impartial (4,5) Chatter (6) Cheerful (5) Carpus (5) Conceal Corpulent Communication sent Confess City north-east of Milan that hosts the F1 Italian GP City in Connecticut, US, housing the Wesleyan University Caster —, 2009 World Championships women's 800m gold medallist Check gold key and object Chair Corrosive substance Cause Colonise Country resort for a thin lad Cricketer seen if climbing tree Covered in confusion (7) Crush underfoot (7) Couple (7) Comprehensively; unceremoniously (4,3,4) Cork, perhaps; goalkeeper (7) Courteous (6) Clean feathers City in Illinois, US, north of Chicago on Lake Michigan Cultivated variety of cabbage with branched greenish flower heads City in Germany; leading administrative centre of the Ruhr Cry about table Collect a large amount Catch in one trap Couple also heard Commendation Catholic about to practise set of beliefs (5) Clumsy model sat for Rembrandt's first great painting (3,6) Crook caught at end of Ramadan in Asian sultanate (6) Cambridge mathematician with right approach to resistance (8) Cowboy's money put on a jumper (8) Change of state as floor revolts before speech (11) Climbs down support rails (10) Charitable gift with mutinous associations (6) Change the direction of a blow (4) Concerning (5) Cures (5) Cold dish (5) Circular (5) Chimes (5) Crafty Conversation between two people Chief coal-mining and industrial region of Germany Cricket club; 1978 winners of the County Championship Colour of zero scope Consumed by school, say Cereal grain Cut with small whip Confused or crazy (informal) (4) Calling (8) Cool (6) Complete every new device, initially (3) Continues (5) Cutlery item (5) Card game (6) Copious Colour Canvas shelter Capital of Sweden Clive —, author of the novels Flood Tide and Iceberg City in central Japan; capital of the country from 710-784 Captain has fitting Currency unit Chief city Cupid Close of Close Encounters put up for prize Contention put side off Central Park with stick that's secret Cut being painful, get on computer to cancel golf (10) Club swam the Serpentine (4,3) Confident visionary said alternative's not on at first (10) Confuse ten with four - that could be a substantial sum (7) Courteous staff will need to take it in (6) Clothes are not finished in Great Britain (4) Confuse (5) Couches (5) Container (3) City in Nevada (4) Chef Classic ballet practice posture with back erect and knees bent Conscious of a battle to the east Control stream’s new course Copied primate, on the day Colour Container Commotion Cover for leading characters in Crime and Punishment Claim a sure thing, so we hear City worker finding flower damaged by river Chubby (6) Cause to halt (4) Carry out (7) Clumsy butchering of the samurai (10) Carry out check on trouble in joint (8) Criminals in party, it needing reflection? (8) Craft competition (4,4) Choose to make a speech for the voters (10) Censures, informally (6) Competent (4) Chocolate finger-cake Current measuring device Cereal crop Canned Choice that was natural for Darwin Children (7) Crossword creator (6) Craft competition (4,4) Choose to make a speech for the voters (10) Censures, informally (6) Competent (4) Civilian fighting force Castle in chess Complete extent Character played by Cesar Romero in 1960s US television series Batman Copper colour is fixed Child of resonance Creature of the masses Cricketer useful in the kitchen? Common word Canvas shelters Crack team Case for the prosecution? Cattle company was heartless Claude Monet taking part in protest C-E-R-E-A-L? (5) Civilian dress (5) Craft competition (4,4) Choose to make a speech for the voters (10) Censures, informally (6) Competent (4) Congregate Cookie City in Nebraska, US, on the Missouri River opposite Council Bluffs, Iowa Colour makes church soar Cheese ingredient Competent Cute College post could be richer post Customers, cold and silent, getting upset Completely; to the end (3,3,3) Cannon (billiards); ricochet, rebound (5) Collections of photographs; records (6) City in S Finland that houses the Gallen-Kallela Museum Country in NE Africa whose capital is Asmara Coach takes on more money Canter off in a daze Chin-wagging a bit Creep off for something to eat Called after parking accident Charming around branch Cake Crust Collision Curve Church one left in no-frills area Capital raised by duke for herald's tunic Current below the surface (8) Close and commonly bald (7) Controlled setter, confident when dismissing second son (8) Conspicuous coverage of competition by papers? Just the opposite (7) Circuit (3) Cat noise (4) Consider (4) Cure (6) Competent (7) Cut off (5) Cavities (5) Communion table (5) Chef (4) Culinary delicacy Common brown moth with orange markings whose larvae feed on willow and poplar Christina —, actress who played the title role in 2006 film comedy Penelope Capital of Tibet Concurred with mongrel Complete space with flag Chum Chew noisily Counterfeit Comply (6) Central American country (9) Climb (5) Close with a bang (4) Conclusion of amusing MC's blue tale of spooks (5,5) Colleague gets over some work aversion (7) Catholic sort of joint (9) Curse such wares! (5) Closely follow mother in doctrine (5) Crypt (5) Court (3) Country (6) Chews and swallows Carl —, WBC Super Middleweight champion from 2010-11 Clambering with youngster Contented with bivvy Charge for ring Car wheel heard to be weary Conspiracy Craft Cold dish Canvas shelter Car port Chime Chairmen see out great foes Child with foreign currency brought up organ City on the Tyne (9) Confessed (5,2) Cunning, scheming and unscrupulous (13) Closing university email messed about time and time again (8) Concealment of corporal punishment? (6) Corsair (6) Competitor (5) Cloth made of flax (5) Canvas shelters (5) Cowardly Cutlery item Code word for Y Casts off Charles —, furniture designer best known for his 1956 Lounge Chair Common viper with a zigzag pattern along its back Collective noun for a group of fish Conscious of a battle to the east Cutting-edge journalist got spotted Carpenter’s tool Composer for King George the First, for example Chief assistant is no southpaw County losing last call centre? That's incredible! Cases for Greek philosopher? Not so! Commotion (3) Colossus (5) Consisting of small disconnected parts (11) Chronicles (6) Cheap wine, burgundy almost knocked over — fool! (7) Condemn fool holding figure upside down (8) Can I convert an indigenous Peruvian? (4) Cigar taken from main character in bed (7) Classify alternative letter (4) Catch at small faults in fish (4) Counting frame (6) Crib (3) Change (5) Conceals (5) Current fashion or style Cosmetic item Cooking bulb Crossbred hunting dog Courageous Capital of Japan City and capital of the state of Madhya Pradesh, India Colourless friend has energy Change during meditation Complaint Child's plaything Cavalrymen (7) Corrupt leaders in thrash arranged inside Number Ten (5) Chucking away soggy food, about to stuff face (8) Can I convert an indigenous Peruvian? (4) Cigar taken from main character in bed (7) Classify alternative letter (4) Catch at small faults in fish (4) Counting frame (6) Crib (3) Change (5) Conceals (5) Claw Cautious Cutting part of a knife Coarse hard-wearing sacking made from jute Canoe designated with the letter K in Olympic events Cross with a loop on the top that often appears in Egyptian personal names Child of resonance Caught spool in trap Comes in to get logs Come to a river, somehow Cancel directions to entrance Consumed more than seven, say Coastline Church bench Cherish Conflict about whip Cop pins arm roughly in place of captivity Caribbean island, French overseas department (10) Causing acute embarrassment (3-7) Cocktail made with rum and lime juice (8) Can I convert an indigenous Peruvian? (4) Cigar taken from main character in bed (7) Classify alternative letter (4) Catch at small faults in fish (4) Counting frame (6) Crib (3) Change (5) Conceals (5) Celebrity Classic horse race at Doncaster; final leg of the English Triple Crown Charlie —, WBC Flyweight champion from March-September 1983 Cease sending post Collected points at appointment Church either side of the head Crowd is small and affectionate Climb Coach Calm Contest Chant Collar part Containers for a musical instrument, so we hear Cap or old hat found before party Currently sheltered by royal arch Conflict: Soviet bloc v NATO, 1945-90 (4,3) Coin opening; place with precision (4) Clique; fashionable crowd (2-5) Capital of Venezuela (7) Coagulates (5) Counterfoils (5) Chooses (4) Card game Crawler, when quiet Chum Chorister beginning to develop got much bigger Camera captures poor Mame in US prison Cask is for port in North Africa Chap with Italian article in Italian city Confined (6,2) Circus compere (10) Champion footballer I see (7) Clapton covering 10cc? Strangely offbeat (9) Connected to the internet, tense with excitement (5) Connected bogus sick note with first of lawsuits coming in (5-4) Crew, not top grade, bring in one sea creature … (5) Cockney eyes little pastries (5,4) Call Biden about opening of restricted file (4,6) Contracted big town dude to come up with scheme (6) Crooked dealing straightened out (7) Ceremonial trial rearranged about the middle of January (6) Could the contents of the wine-cellar be so described? (6,6) Chucks (6) Composure, balance (5) Chair on poles (5) Cut off Causing sadness or pity Closes Comedian who hosted ITV game shows Cross Wits and Name That Tune Contemporary with part-timer Consumes a set recipe Cadge from cleaner Conger, eg Covers Centre Compass direction Claim Combine Crossing indicator in Emerald Isle? Caligula, say (7) Curry, originally from Goa (8) Contributor to our duplicitous language (4) Clue originally featured in 1 — and never again? (4) Cheer a blunder in attempt at double-dealing (9) Conspiracies (5) Close friend (3) Card game (3) Containing no fat (4) Cautions (5) Cut wool from (5) Call on (5) Cylinder Cooking vessel Capital of Norway Chum changed considerably Copper finds way to get some food Crowd threw rest at villain Cease sending post Cheese ingredient Colour Cost of keeping soldiers in step Car crime perpetrated by cricketers? Crude oil in USA — and a state Capital of Georgia (7) Commotion (4) Cashier lost about five records (8) Conflict observed in capital (6) Contests between different peoples? (5) Clause relates to a particular thing (7) Church official who is always on edge? (6) Continental quilt (5) Cover (3) Charles —, author of the novels Ham on Rye and Post Office City in Uttarakhand housing the Indian Military Academy Christopher —, navigator and explorer who died in Valladolid, Spain in 1506 Character in the William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream also called Robin Goodfellow Christian —, actor who portrayed Orson Welles in 2008 film drama Me and Orson Welles Chosen the Spanish tie design Counsel is about privacy Caught light in vice Compel Commence Consecrate Croquette Consumer of no animal products Coming down at the top of the stairs? Confidence in one's own abilities (4-9) Chosen as the best (5) Critical examination (6) Classical maiden tripping over down with unknown speed (4,5) Colour shown by clever girl and Communist (6,4-3) Continues to get the takings (8) Concluding part (6) Cant (5) Courteous (6) Cast off (4) Corrosive substance Certainly Casualty Charles Cunningham —, land agent in Ireland whose surname has come to mean a refusal to do business with another party Card game Colonises Craft Companion when young? He's too calm to get upset Carte du jour (4) Contraception (5,7) Cordiality (6) Crack from cleric, idiot in church (8) Criminal receiver getting hold of excellent ceramic wear (7) Colour shown by clever girl and Communist (6,4-3) Continues to get the takings (8) Concluding part (6) Cant (5) Courteous (6) Cast off (4) City on the River Trent associated with the hosiery industry Criticise dish Child of resonance Colour makes church ascend Cleopatra’s lion Can see improvement at gathering Come in from barren terrain College of note, possibly Chap finds one with a disorder Children’s edition Cooking vessel Competent Conclusion of a joke (9) Colour shown by clever girl and Communist (6,4-3) Continues to get the takings (8) Concluding part (6) Cant (5) Courteous (6) Cast off (4) Code word for P Chris —, 1975-78 US Open women's singles tennis champion City in Nevada, US, noted as a gambling and divorce centre Claw Cog Compelled servant, by the sound of it Citizen of a Caribbean republic (9) Creative person (6) Cared about a military unit (5) Calculate roughly (8) Card game (4) Cultivate land (4) Country road (4) Cream cake (6) Christian Gottlob —, German composer of 1771 opera Die Apotheke City in India on the River Ganges associated with rice growing Colonise Craft Coach Cosy (4) Cover for the head and face (4) Cutlery item (5) City of noted square singer who lit up sick soldiers (8) Cut up as daughter falls, being murdered (4) Cut team coming second? (10) Currently offensive? (8) Concerning a boxing match (5) Card suit (6) Crossbow arrow (4) Come into view (6) Chosen way (5) Church minister Coached Cargo Charged particles City in central Poland formerly associated with the textile industry City in NE Netherlands; capital of the province of Drenthe County of the Republic of Ireland between Longford and Monaghan Copper gets Eastern signal Change gear in anger Cut crude arrangement with Spain Cruel sort of complaint Cipher Contest Country in which bag handles may be produced Clergyman finds leader of congregation without delay Class relied on reform to get aircraft squadrons in France (11) Current undergarment for a woman lacks opening (4) Checks parts of the rigging (5) Comes face to face with hunting parties (5) Confusion by sailors who are fellow consumers (9) Composed part of a musical miscellany (4) Contest of speed (4) Comes about (6) Condition (5) Calf meat Catch fire Commercial transport of goods Common Counterpane Cook in hot water Cape —, peninsula of NE Tunisia Charming with member Capital of Czechoslovakia Crazy flyers Cricketer useful in kitchen? Carry on summary Cut in personnel Chuck Continue Colour Capital that's eastern in spirit Contents of sack seen repeatedly by one with a plant Class outside university is place for discussion Call on team for seats near arena Capital from island invested in new casino Child at home with cooler temperature Censure comic's front cover Come to Korea - Chinese part Cocaine (anag) (7) Covering Virginia with sweat, ultimately perverted royal can (8) Climber, perhaps one following main course to summit, shortly (5,3) Cold butter and jam (4) Cabin (3) Competitor (5) Craftsman (7) Common (7) Celebrity snappers Card suit Cousin and friend of Romeo in the William Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet Colourless liquid mixture distilled from wood tar used as an antiseptic Conscious of a battle to the east Chum Camera stand Creature Content with shaking fist, say? Chronic sleeplessness (8) Coarse and ill-mannered (7) Climbed (6) Curious, Guardian's questionable statement (6) Conclude with a short number that's hot (7) Christmas hymn (5) Cupid (4) Child's vehicle (7) Citizen of a country Canal boat Carnivorous, domesticated mammal of the family Canidae C —, England ODI cricketer who hit 107 against Bangladesh at Chittagong in 2010 Capital of Tuscany, Italy Clone Rob’s leader Called terribly mean daughter Canadian lake Contest Condoned Certain Casserole Celebrities holding eastern goggles Call to account (7) Convenient to adopt unsuitable name for fibre (8) Crawler identifying former president’s wife (8) Chart-topper set cut unmusical sound (5) Conclude with a short number that's hot (7) Christmas hymn (5) Cupid (4) Child's vehicle (7) Cube of toasted or fried bread Calm or pacify Carpenter’s tool Cry of pain City in the E Netherlands which houses the Rijksmuseum Twenthe Capital of Azerbaijan City in Saudi Arabia; holiest site of Islam Colourless gaseous element; symbol Ne Consumed more than seven, say Change during meditation Caught Alan wasting some water Colour to fade, we hear Closed deals arranged with European City can produce lingo Curt Capital city in which girl meets another coming back Contributor to state revenue (8) Channel port (2,5) Conclude with a short number that's hot (7) Christmas hymn (5) Cupid (4) Child's vehicle (7) Chews steadily Cleaning item Cape —, peninsula in Massachusetts, US, housing the resort of Provincetown Crest Clean forks set out by breakfast dish Charged with being wealthy? Craftsman less inclined to work after midnight Cross-bred (6) Cautiously asking why the plumbing is wrong (8,3) Cruel, vicious (6) Curved roof (4) Cargo thrown overboard Communicates with God Circular Crossbow arrow Character in the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House who dies from spontaneous human combustion Commune in Pas-de-Calais, France near the Channel Tunnel terminal at Coquelles that formerly housed a refugee camp Capital of West Germany from 1949-90 Capital of the Solomon Islands Charlie —, detective creation of Earl Biggers who first appeared in 1925 novel The House Without a Key Change later, possibly Copper gets point of signal Cheap sort of food Close look for a costume? Clone Rob’s leader Clergy member Column Card that lets one borrow books (7,6) Continental breakfast item (9) Confection from a Lancashire seaside resort (9,4) Custodian who does conscientious work? (9) Councillor is given a large container for neckwear (6) Concoct a new tipple to contain first of rare seasonal fruit (6,5) Crime first off with purpose creates basis for discussion (7,5) Carry small child close to slide (4) Currently offended? (7) Car fuel (6) Chuck (4) Clumsy, informally (3-6) Close observation Conceals Chinese dynasty interrupted by Xin leader Wang Mang that ruled from 206 BC until AD 220 Chief sounds like horse hair Croat turned performer Change during meditation Coach Cooking fat Cuts constraining Egypt's first pharaoh Country that has converted vital article Containers may be bust Claptrap (9) Cheaper, though often not really cheap, travel ticket (5) Castle tower (6) Cricketer's family? They embodied youth, beauty and elegance (3,6) Cry of pain (4) Cleaning utensil (3) Cook in hot fat (3) Celebrity (4) Commune in Ain, France, whose rugby union club play at Stade Charles-Mathon Cud-chewing mammal of desert regions that can survive long periods without food or water Constable in the William Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost Chatted about headgear Clean off spear Contented with bivvy Close Chime Canvas shelter Collier Confirm an animal has escaped City in Colorado that's more intrepid, we hear Charge about right for offensive online poster Criminal — clarinets (anag) (9) Contrite (6) Church gathered to welcome new material (6) Contemplates Mirror and Sun (8) Criminal bears arms? Shame (9) Consume tea brewed at university (3,2) Circular (5) Charm (6) Cleans feathers (6) Cutlery items (5) Cold dish (5) Competent Cutlery items Claudio —, Chilean classical pianist who died in 1991 City in Tuscany, Italy, north of Pisa on the Ligurian Sea coast Cricket ground in London; headquarters of the MCC Chills diamonds at school Crockery item Car manufacturer in Japan is sanguine Chopper (3) Caught one using tongue to taste spirit (6) Cocktail Indian spilt in fast car (3,3,2) Chewed a small morsel (3) Chiefly one found in brave setting (6) Cure (4) Celestial body (5) Circuit (3) Carpet nail County on the Atlantic coast of the Republic of Ireland east of County Mayo Conversed about poesy Curve Cipher Chain mail regularly seen in waterway Club sandwiches have to be nearer the mouth (9) Chewed a small morsel (3) Chiefly one found in brave setting (6) Cure (4) Celestial body (5) Circuit (3) Continues doing Child’s toy Cat noise City in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, on the Warnow River near the Baltic Sea coast Capital of Bulgaria City for cavorting pairs Catch in one trap Child of resonance Complete space with flag Carpel damaged by bundle Copy two dots Consume in one attempt Cry Container Competent Curdling agent Chide Curved structure Campsite shelter for some forgotten troop Camera mechanism — extremely smooth, say Chewed a small morsel (3) Chiefly one found in brave setting (6) Cure (4) Celestial body (5) Circuit (3) Confess Cul-de-sac Code word for the letter I Catherine —, 2003 and 2007 World Championships marathon gold medallist Cannot shorten pretence Condemn to mood changes Cadge from cleaner Collection of maps Christian apprehended, so we hear Code (6) Container preserving a drink's temperature (7,5) Call for more (6) Check the others before the bad weather (8) Clubs once used by captains of disorderly crews (5) Craze, informally (3) Casualty (6) Cast a spell over (7) Card game Celia —, actress who portrayed Doris Speed in 2010 BBC TV drama The Road to Coronation Street Chap has first to shine Chin-wagging a bit Come out east and join Colour Cup of tea left to go cold Cook an organic meal involving two countries Comic (8) Country in the Horn of Africa (7) Cut — fruit (5) Character of intricate particle (10) Consignment from small trendy chaps with a bit of talent (8) Country home on a Scottish mountain (5) Carry stick and deliver food source for hungry blonde! (5,5) Come on, it's fantastic how they picture your feelings (9) Cultivated fellow leaves with a gun (5) Car found in uncertain place, when battery lead dropped (4) Clerics have an afterthought about varied rites (7) Closely fought knitting competition? (6,5) Camp out in this (4) Christmas hymn (5) Congeals (4) Conservatives (6) Conspiracy (5) Card suit Citrus fruit Contribution Courtier in the William Shakespeare play Hamlet Chessman of the lowest theoretical value Changes as to fodder Chart the French shrub Colour of zero scope Complete space with flag Combine Climbs to see fool clutching coin Communication held back by parliament Complete agreement with child attending university? Consequence of reform in Ulster Cut of meat from a sheep (4,4) Carnal (6) Come round with boring requests for regional holidays (5,5) Clutch them when all looks lost, but avoid the short one! (6) Confectioner's pastries ruined diet, essentially (10) Cuts ripe bananas for dessert topping (3,5) Clearing large borders, exposed umbelliferous plant (5) Conversation at the boxing-match? (8,4) Couldn't find American comic - became desperate (4,4) Cherish (8) Coiffure Clerk in the 1850 Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield Contented with bivvy Condiment in grave trouble Cease sending post Canvas shelter Ceremonies Canyon Countless milkmaids initially backing their workplace Container raised in low principality Cultivation of land for raising crops (7) Circular band nearly full of golden petals (7) Chair (4) Condition (5) Construct Client Curved roof Casually unconcerned or indifferent Cougar Counterfoils Colouring stick Craig T —, actor who played the title role in long-running US sitcom Coach Courage to turn east Captain has fitting Consumed gram before barrier Cancellation includes room Constructing tiny metal character Caught sight of Cost Country in the Horn of Africa, bordering on the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden (8) Charming and elegant (man) (5) Checks possibly amber clothing at home (5,2) Character from China is awful pig? Oh dear! (9) Colours of crude undies donned by this person (3,6) Car owner in distress - and showing it! (8) Characters that are inclined to be distinctive (7) Corrosive substance (4) Ceremonies (5) Cavalry sword (5) Capital and chief port of Qatar Climbing plant whose dried flowers are used in brewing City in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, famous for its cheese and ham Commend quiet lift Criticised Sunday dinner and journalist Conscious Cots Comprehensive Cooked in the oven Captive audience at first, say, turning on entertainer Cupid nearly shot singer Charity (4) Carmen or Fidelio? (5) Controversial attention-grabbing issue (5,7) Confronts son during exam retakes (7) Car owner in distress - and showing it! (8) Characters that are inclined to be distinctive (7) Corrosive substance (4) Ceremonies (5) Cavalry sword (5) Cognisant Curved structure Condiment Capital of Ecuador County of the Republic of Ireland whose county town is Tullamore Confused a year with a shorter period Consumed less than nine, say Colour that is returning to bird Catch in one trap Correspond Colour Contest Care for very amusing person Conduct (6) Commercial preparation for making sponges etc (4,3) Crooked (5) Car owner in distress - and showing it! (8) Characters that are inclined to be distinctive (7) Corrosive substance (4) Ceremonies (5) Cavalry sword (5) Church talk Cooking room Card game based on collecting sets and sequences City in West Yorkshire that houses the National Science and Media Museum City in NW Russia on the Velikaya River Container for key at home Creature found in group Croat turned performer Casserole Creepy-crawly Curt Copying a short, sharp ringing sound Chat (8) Cows etc (6) Check the advance of a sick man who returns (5) Course must be if you steer wrongly (5) Cuts into cubes (5) Confused situation (3-2) Couch (6) Cabin (3) Challenges (5) Colour (6) Complete, total (5) Combined effort Chinese game for four people played with 136 or 144 tiles Charge three notes Cleaner put off by man City where Torvill and Dean won gold in the 1984 Winter Olympics (8) Cerebral organ (5) Coin expert (11) Court liar (8) Conspiring old American sounds a warning (2,7) Chin rest's alternative name (8) Cause extreme panic as throat ceased moving (5,2,5) Complete unknown covering front of robe with flounces (6) Card to traitor returned (5) Criminal element following stag? (10) Charlie upset hoarder with empty storage for crack (8) Crazy headgear for a hothead (6) Confuses (7) Craftsperson Cardinal number Christmas City in Ohio, US, known in the early 20th century as the rubber capital of the world Caspar —, 16th-century German composer and theologian whose works include There is a Snow Fallen Corruption in the village Come in from barren terrain Carriage is about right Curt Celestial body Charming old Arab turning east Commotion requiring action? Cumbersome (informal) (6) Company actor's top covered by plain item of clothing (8) Chatter about Dicky's outcome (3-3) Confess to being mad about it (5) Cheroots, for example (6) Colour (5) Court case (5) Claw (5) Changed Capital of Northern Cape, South Africa, associated with the diamond industry Colourless-sounding container Contempt about part-timer Classification Chair Countenance Consequent Coming back from Sarajevo, ballerina's in heaven Cleverly procure first of wet fish Complete military training and lose consciousness Cautionary signal shown by lamb erroneously Coffee server (7) Children's author in study penning playful affair on troublemakers, primarily (8) Colour (4) Cultivate land (4) Chasm (5) Compact, firm Chairs Chafe or fray Croons Cocktail consisting of light rum, pineapple juice and coconut cream Capital of Turkey Chewed English snack Copes badly, to an extent Coating Character Church that is to soar above all Clergymen going round in circles Chicken dish cooked in red wine (3,2,3) City where the Senedd Cymru is situated (7) City nearest to Walt Disney World Resort (7) Component (7) Came up (5) Criminal British chemicals company once filling incorrect tanks in the van (7) Chronic drunkard Crowded mass of people or things Cost Climbing palm whose tough stems are used for wickerwork City in Vaucluse, France; seat of the papacy from 1309-77 Call for some jewellery Chap on way to get some cows Commended to get pressure lifted Care about time on some land Colour of credibility Chime Chilled Condescends Crimson Commotion Country certainly not embracing resistance Cruel agent upset family member Cooked animal flesh (4) Crossbow arrow (4) Change in form (6) Compassionate — Kent diehard (anag) (4-7) Consequently (5) Complaint of English graduate chasing half-cut Bohemians (6) Church walls in Barcelona perhaps quartz (8) Composition in D sharp originally containing nothing unknown (8) Crosses houses we'd rebuilt for timber suppliers (8) Cooked animal flesh (4) Crossbow arrow (4) Change in form (6) Conversed about poetry Cite problem with wife more than once Change during meditation Calmed down Cold dish Corrosive substance Cut right in middle of grotto Change an editor's authenticated Cooked animal flesh (4) Crossbow arrow (4) Change in form (6) Crowd actor Cricket delivery Conductor of a choir Cause to happen Chasm Caught rule on nail Creature of pride Cathedral city Cipher Crippled Curdling agent Chime Carole is odd revealer of truth Compensation for people in advertising Complete order of drinks cancelled Chief impact (5) Case or particular example City and seaport in SW Alabama, US Capital of Mali Charles —, author of 1861 novel The Cloister and the Hearth Cause a motto about a condiment Catch in one trap Contort Cockney's temporary difficulty causes irritation Chemical compounds used as fertilisers (8) Covering for head and face (4) Come into being (9) Choose fancy iron, finally metric, using computer control (10) Crazy golfers largely tell you — relax! (3,8,2) Cyclists may sound familiar (4,1,4) Centurions set out having been ordered to find partner for lion (7) Coastal road — gosh, a suitable place! (8) City serving beer and fancy pop (6) Cleared off, say (7) Cockney worker is a joiner (3) Container of burnt remains (3) Clear disorder on pierhead and make a packet (6) Could be nutty or explosive inside (5) Certainly not sculpture in concrete (8,3) Conceals (5) Call on (5) Cut off (5) Chairs (5) Careful footwork? (9) Close at hand (6) Calls out (5) Connolly, try a bit of toast and butter (5,4) County furniture (4) Court jester? (6) Car made in four dimensions, reportedly (4) Container of burnt remains (3) Clear disorder on pierhead and make a packet (6) Could be nutty or explosive inside (5) Certainly not sculpture in concrete (8,3) Conceals (5) Call on (5) Cut off (5) Chairs (5) Cigar type Cabin Clambering around youngster Change during meditation Complete space with flag Consequent Cans Character Contest Clothing Carpenter’s tool Country beginning to suffer distress Cheeky rodent (7) Creative porn (7) Cooked and then blended food (5) Cooking implement (7) Creative type (5) Conspicuous — gesture (6) Cornish listener's promise? (5) Cod, initially! (4,2,8) Cope with an extract from myth and legend (6) Could they be non-professional university lecturers? (3,7) Competitor (5) Country (6) Customary (5) Cream cake (6) Cold dish (5) Capital of Romania Cleaner sort of opera Contemporary with part-timer Continuing TV drama? Claw Current Clever backing in Cincinnati or Dallas Contract killing (3) Cumbrian market town, known for its mint cake (6) Conservatives in power? (5,2,3) Cured in a fishy way (8) Congeals (4) Container type (5) Cooker top (3) Commotion (6) Car's safety device (3,3) Counting frame (6) Comedians (6) Caused by (3,2) Careless, hurried Chess piece Crisp skin on roast pork Chief to tolerate acrobatic manoeuvre Cats lie around, supple Company having bad time in recession Criticise musical style with standard backing (3) Cleared one ensnared by drug for adults (10) Craft lacking a prow? (4) Clue mixed with open abundance (8) Come up against an objection (4) Conflict (6) Condiment (4) Card game (4) Corrode (4) Cricket shot Colonialism City and capital of Kwara state, Nigeria City in Texas on the Mexican border on the Rio Grande Celebrity chef who married Juliette Norton in 2000 Chiwetel —, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for 12 Years a Slave Communication from a mile off Contented with accommodation Claimant cares about involving copper Companion alters score on time Canvas shelter Cots Curt Complain to key craftsman Chap with hospital place Circuit (4) Cab (4) Collision — shock (6) Cry out in pain (4) Crew member who never does a stroke (8) Craft lacking a prow? (4) Clue mixed with open abundance (8) Come up against an objection (4) Conflict (6) Condiment (4) Card game (4) Corrode (4) Classic Cherished hope Collective name given to Charles II's ministers Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arlington and Lauderdale Coral island of Japan administered by the US from 1945-72 C P —, author of the novels Homecomings and Time of Hope Consumed more than seven, say Come out east and join City has information on woman Common word Colander Crayon Calm Correct Canine mammal Contents of case — source of water too Christmas decoration from Oxford Street in Selfridges Carnage in service area? Cause to absorb water (7) Confused disturbance (7) Coldly determined (6) Colloquial speech (5) Craft lacking a prow? (4) Clue mixed with open abundance (8) Come up against an objection (4) Conflict (6) Condiment (4) Card game (4) Corrode (4) Cadaver Coloured muscular diaphragm that surrounds and controls the size of the pupil in a human eye County of the Republic of Ireland whose county town is Portlaoise Chap has time to run Container Cope Coercion Competent Celebrity Caged bird one lost in move Condiment that's assembled, by the sound of it Couple of lookers (4) Call in (5) Charming 24 hours entertaining cool model (6) Crib (3) Comfort in distress (6) Cook in hot fat (3) Card game Council region of South Island, New Zealand, founded by Scottish settlers Cap —, closest point between Britain and France City in Germany; leading administrative centre of the Ruhr Citrus tree with sour pear-shaped fruit grown chiefly in Italy Creature in glasses Copy of paper Charred remains Chum Claw Common word Curved structure Coin put in trust not long ago Capital appearance in outskirts of Chicago Christmas Cheerfully unconcerned Clear a path! Code word for Z Couple also heard Charming about injury Clambering around youngster Course Cavort Comprehend (7) Can south-eastern officer have control of Hollywood? (10) Cotton on stick (4) Clipper's No 1 record-keeper has day off (9) Cutlery support for mature anthropoid (10) Collective noun for a group of quail Claiming everything, for example, in front of garage Celebrity of Nevada city, extremely well-known Close(d) (4) Composer Copland or TV producer Spelling (5) Climax (6) Come ___ , 1969 Beatles song (8) Common or garden finally entered in journal (8) Criminal pockets 1, 15, or what's in all the other across solutions (4) Contract ultimately broken? One's fired! (6) Chat about decoration that's unimportant (2,6) Cautions (5) Country (7) Comes about (6) Cain's brother (4) Cults (5) Colour (6) Corrosive substance Come into view Cricket stick Close angrily City and state capital of Perak, Malaysia Clifton —, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar nominee for Sitting Pretty Concentrate on what a lens does Canny statue design Choose to veto, possibly Consumer Ceremony Constantly Central point Commence Char seen when vocalist doesn't finish Cook from Serbia Close friend (4) Cowboy’s leather leggings Cricket delivery Capital of Niger Collapsed round part of church Capital of Belarus Church recess Christmas decoration Composer and bishop with old sculptor Country quarters with original garden Clio and Thalia, for instance (5) Characterless feature of the keyboard (5,3) Crime boss (2,3) Cutting edge (5) Car limited by course that's lower (8) Characters in highbrow hit established as brightest (7) Cold cuts well inside cheese roll (7) Correct, labyrinthine route north of Switzerland (7) Commemoration: what about inscribing it in gibberish? (7) Confidential observation of a team (5) Consumer not easy to satisfy? (4,7) Chewy sweet (6) Concentrate (5) Country (4) Colour (3) Container (3) Courage (5) Coarse jute fabric (7) Cutlery items (6) Clear of trees Castle surround Cornelius —, New York-born businessman and philanthropist who died in 1877 Capital of Cyprus City in Washington, US, that hosted the 1962 World's Fair Criticised cook and journalist Charge three notes Country Cooked in the oven Conditional releases Clever animal seen by daughter Craft needed for a game with pencil and paper Chum has filter tips and I object Confidential observation of a team (5) Consumer not easy to satisfy? (4,7) Chewy sweet (6) Concentrate (5) Country (4) Colour (3) Container (3) Courage (5) Coarse jute fabric (7) Cutlery items (6) Curiosity Crease Concealed in both ideas Cricketer useful in the kitchen? Convenience of men Chief rioted unexpectedly Colour makes church ascend Collect a great deal Car port Chaps Charter Charred remains Clothes fastener Chaperone expected girl back Contrition about dots and dashes Cross Rhode Island with a sort of light Common family name (for a metal worker?) (5) Confectionery (6) Change oar (anag) — here in Alaska? (9) Causing strong feelings (7) Commotion, uproar (6) Cheap diner (6,5) Confidential observation of a team (5) Consumer not easy to satisfy? (4,7) Chewy sweet (6) Concentrate (5) Country (4) Colour (3) Container (3) Courage (5) Coarse jute fabric (7) Cutlery items (6) Clean feathers Child’s magazine Cosmetic item Cut off physically Capital of the Bahamas Commendation for quiet lift Creatures from the west Come in from barren terrain Compass direction Cord Capital, we hear, for food shop Collapse awkwardly dropping old surgical tool Correct last of errors in project (4) Cocktal currently taken by graduate and learner in confines of school (8) Cut off a weed (4) Concerning a light yellow check (6) Clippie's vehicle (3) Container (3) Clumsy, incompetent (5) Cease living (3) Choose by voting Cake decoration Cuban dance Colloquial language Clothing business Collision Corner Clifford —, author of the stage plays Waiting for Lefty and Clash by Night Central character in 1932 short story collection The Camels Are Coming by W E Johns Colourless flammable liquid produced by the fermentation of sugars Card game for four; a forerunner of bridge Consume in one attempt Complete space with flag Check pins used for shock treatment Come in from barren terrain Contemporary with part-timer Constructed Costume Coach Close Constellation Counsel (6) Chatty (9) Change down into this mean outfit (3,4) Contemptuous expression puts playwright under pressure (5) Cast finished speaking (5) Consumes some cheese at suppertime (4) Customary treatment of an American era (5) Cruel, vicious (6) Cast off Conveys from one place to another Continue summary Carry on Consumer Corrosion Cold sweets oddly increase Calm — neutral — sanitised soap (anag) (13) Corrupt morally (7) Coat with a layer of metal (5) Critical situation (9) Comedian beset by disappointment — hard to get contract (4,4,4) Condom is semi-broken? Withdraw from action (12) Coarse expression of quantity (5) Count in German (4) Corrosive substance (4) Consume (3) Cleave (5) Cuts into cubes (5) Clothes, garments Christmas hymn City in Los Angeles County, California; former home of the Hollywood Park Racetrack City in S Israel; largest in the Negev desert City can produce tongue Chafe one prisoner to point of no return Chap reported letters Charge for ring Changing fate is a stunt Chime Collective held back by cadet in Ukraine Candid leader in front line Cancel (an order, action, effect etc) (4) Change places (6) Crossing the globe, exceedingly word-wise (8) Conservative lot with love for something inexpensive (6) Cow-catcher (6) Choice example (5) Cut wool from (5) Crossbow arrow (4) Continues (5) Cast a spell over (7) Card suit Compass point Capital of Vietnam Communist organisation also known as the Third International formed in 1919 Cuter form of ceasefire Came in to design building Craft Colour Cart-pulling animal Coarse Captives Catch short partner going west Central or Northern Line – and Southern hairstyle Currently engaged (2,3) Composer of the 'Farewell' Symphony, d. 1770 (5) Cut three ways (7) Correct catches fitting trap (7) Condiment male put with hotcake when cooking (6,7) Check suit, where kit should be white (4,5) Container found back among the Pompeian ruins (3) Civilian fighting force (7) Characteristic (5) Cutlery item (5) Cooking bulb Capital of Namibia City in India serving as the sub-capital of Jharkhand state Chooses school to get votes Conceals pelts Colonise Constrictor Compass direction Chuck Berry's empty foyer Clergyman in front of church soon Crude verse (8) Container found back among the Pompeian ruins (3) Civilian fighting force (7) Characteristic (5) Cutlery item (5) Concerning Change direction suddenly Criminal organisation Cupid Capital of Alberta, Canada Cow in children's television series The Magic Roundabout City in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, NE Italy, partially damaged by an earthquake in 1976 Church in a new series Cared about large woody plant Catch in one trap Collapsed round part of church Consumed fewer than nine, say Capacity Colour Crib Calm Church recess Corrosive substance Carol turned out in thin singlet Container found back among the Pompeian ruins (3) Civilian fighting force (7) Characteristic (5) Cutlery item (5) Comfortably warm and well-protected Cathedral city in Cambridgeshire on the River Nene City in Lombardy; chief financial centre of Italy Clambering round youngster College of note, possibly Changes as to fodder Creature got beaten with copper Canter off in a daze Contented with accommodation Conflagration Canvas shelter Collection of maps Corrosive substance Come up against reversed instrument Cooked rice I store in desk Cain was the first! (8) Chinese language (8) Concealed ditch in landscape gardening (2-2) Cleaner sort of music created to be listened to (11) Converting one of blue or green power source (7) Cosmetic lotion printer may need (5) Coming across aliens about the cathedral? (5,10) Crowd comes back having swallowed defeat — that's mature (7) Celebrities go after county that's abandoning young artist (10) Change location — increases clicks (2,6) Cause of dejection in weathermen? (10) Commotion (6) Container for liquids (3) Caution in practical affairs (8) Claw Combat Cloudy Cooking fat Commonest basic pattern of the human fingerprint Companion of Falstaff sentenced to hang for looting in William Shakespeare play Henry V Chisel-edged tooth at the front of the mouth Cheerful bit of syncopation Clowns get depressed Contend with luvvies Compel Compete Country star taking in American prosecutor Cutting tool observed by rascal Cheers for hare sent astray Crude picture of fish swallowing half of us Concern (4) Colours (4) Cease paying attention (6,3) Closed (4) Car's hooter (4) Congeal (3) Corrode (4) Cure (4) Capture (5) Common (7) Charm (6) Clear transparent mineral Cheese type Carl —, US minimalist sculptor whose works include 144 Magnesium Square and Equivalent VIII Change gear in fury Charge three notes Creature of pride? Contest City's mad longing Cain's brother following married woman Cooler, with start of frost on hilltop Continue moving forward (5,2) Crimean resort, where Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill met in February 1945 (5) Concert performance (7) Capital of the Bahamas (6) Current resistance breaking around capital (5) Comic actor's hugging widow (who might get the hump) (7) Coffee planters destroyed son's private property (8,7) Competent (4) Counterfoil (4) Colour (5) Convincing defeat Church council Clumsy Catalina —, 2004 Olympic balance beam and floor exercise gold medallist Cultivated variety of cabbage with crinkled leaves Claimed to be made in tens Carol released form of butane Creature gives party energy Clean off a spear College head Champion Colour Chum Check, examine Condemn poor scholar holding one up Coarse printed cotton cloth (6) Chump (3) Cholesterol-reducing drug (6) Congress makes standard complaint about India (10) Concerted movement put something on a firm basis, perhaps (9) Christmas show (5) Come into view (6) Crafty (3) Clan Crisp sweet biscuit Come about City in Central Province, Sri Lanka, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1988 Check condition and restore Cylinder right for a potato, say Covering of furs confused expert Chinese dynasty Catch Caught in Chew the fat, finally being ineffectual Carrier introduced when a treaty is arranged Constant time is mine Complaint about a gumboil one ignored Crystal ball user? (7,6) Collarbone (8) Clobber in ring? One packing punches around top of ribs (5,6) College window (5) Correct revolver for one of the military commands (5,5) Cinder (5) Confuses (6) Celestial body (5) Crib (3) Consecutive Cruel person Container Coiffeur Collects beef and pork, say Case of trendy position Collections Chaps start to understand list of options Charter of political rights given to English barons by King John, 1215 (5,5) Comfortable situation (3,2,5) College window (5) Correct revolver for one of the military commands (5,5) Cinder (5) Confuses (6) Celestial body (5) Crib (3) Circular Correct Court case Creature less cold in the East End Celebration involving a steer Cricket match can be a trial Crawler, when quiet Cartel transporting alcohol Collision Cavities Crafts Catch sight of Collection of maps Child initially getting material that's used for drawing Complete cessation of punctuation Classical portico (4) Cudgel (8) Chinese martial art (4,2) College window (5) Correct revolver for one of the military commands (5,5) Cinder (5) Confuses (6) Celestial body (5) Crib (3) Chums Castrated cock fowl fattened for eating Chief port and economic capital of Cote d'Ivoire Chicken or game bird split down the back and grilled Cancel directions to portal Celestial object in heaven, usually Cooking fat Consumer Country, say Catcher in novel also first for Salinger Crooks wail about community service? (6,4) Carefree and pleased to leave fortune to unknown quantity (5-2-5) Cab door being slammed in the city (7) Cold girl in charge of major sporting event (7) Check car before start of travel (5) Co-operate in drama and dance (4,4) Celebrity in tabloid? (4) Come first in rowing (3) Can be formed, apparently, now its in vogue (11) Coagulates (5) Conspiracy (5) Conditions (5) Cream cake (6) Coarse files (5) Confuses (7) Concluding part (6) Code word for G Cut with an axe City on the River Po; headquarters of Italian motor car manufacturer Fiat Change during meditation Child of resonance Creature from the west Crazy Close Contort Comprehension of key file Come back with some threadbare curtains Cultivated (5) Cite former vice president's outside choice (10) Complete overhaul of 11 at pithead (7) Crazy player is a hotheaded person (6) Coeval recess (6) Citizen of Rome (5) Cautious, wary Coagulate Contestant Country in NE Africa; capital Asmara Claude —, director of 1991 film drama Madame Bovary Capital of West Germany from 1949-90 Chief coal mining and industrial region of Germany Changes as to fodder Charge for peal Complain to a bird Called for part of ladder Crazy for cashews, say Chime Charred remains Chair crosspiece Companion Children produced by Benjamin or Samuel? 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Close to not having a tune Cloth rusted away Came first in two nations Chief Cleaning rag City of northern Italy, with a university established in 1222 (5) Car drivers (9) Completion of a normal pregnancy Come in from barren terrain Company attempts to include English cliques Calling hospital before being unwell Counts needing time with friends Compact, firm (5) Challenges (5) Cross-bred (6) Collective name for the islands of the Pacific Ocean Cheese made in the district of Melton Mowbray named after a place in Cambridgeshire Cry of a sheep Count as substance Castle flyer Coupon given to fellow Catch different part Contest Certain Church appointment for the undead? Carry on, leaving after quick look back (4,5) Clumsy, spilling pint over partner at the table (5) Change Compact group of mountains Curved row of houses Confront cafe's new design Calculation Caber Cause to run away (4) Colour of two wines (4-3) Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin show; 1977 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical and Best Original Score City in Uusimaa, Finland, which houses the Gallen-Kallela Museum Chronic infection also called Hansen's disease Criticise expert with a universal remedy Clothes found by old Swedish-born actress Counting everything, though utterly fatigued Cured patient yearns for animal Criminal with sick bird, so we hear Cooker top (3) Cooks pies (5) Concur (5) Colloquial language (5) Cardinal number City in the central Netherlands housing the Dom Tower Cadge from cleaner Curse out of loathing Cooking vessel Crease Criminal Carter's work — a huge construction outside Los Angeles Crude ending of Victor Hugo novel Cook got pea soup Crazy plan to restrain military assistant Common-or-garden (8) Clement (4) Cotton on? (3) Chief leader writer, fiery beast (9) Cook offering horse? Not English, bad! (9) Catch a cold in a public vehicle — you can count on it! (6) Code word for R Chops wildly Corrode Close friend Conrad —, US poet who authored 1927 novel Blue Voyage Course interior that belongs to you and me Craig managed tobacco roll Conflict Cheroot Conduit Currency unit Call after Spanish leader is speaking French Clergyman losing head with American or Greek flier Carry small child on one's back Covered entrance (5) Cooked Dover sole (4) Change pure Eastern currency (5) Communist leader has auburn hair (7) Cultivated plant (9) Commendation (6) Crossbow arrow (4) Comes about (6) Cavities (5) Cask (6) Capital of the Netherlands Antilles Container for burning incense during religious ceremonies Carolina —, 2004 Olympic heptathlon gold medallist Composed taut dirge in recognition Confused wee creature Chap gets date raging angry Creatures of dementia College to steer away from artificial stuff Characters to manage El Salvador Checked Colour of snow Cereal required by every engineer Change into top gear? Colouring (7) Came down to earth with a big bump (5-6) Capers in mains, oddly, yours truly fed to cook (8) Customs union implemented by Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands in 1948 Chief port and capital of American Samoa Colour on small natural snack Clergyman loses one of his buildings Chief sobs uncontrollably Conditional freedom Cots Convince Cathedral Completely Call on Coffee pot with filter Colour (6) Caused by (3,2) Contend (3) Communion table Cowboy of the Argentine and Uruguayan pampas City and port in Galicia, Spain Catch in one trap Cricket match can be a trial Conceal pelt Consumed more than seven, say City can provide language Conversed about stanza Curve Catch sight of Canned Cereal crop Croatian port increased part Cuts or pinches City in S France whose Roman remains include an amphitheatre and the Pont du Gard aqueduct Cut of beef that comes from the rear of the cow above the leg College of note, possibly Chief rioted unexpectedly Contemporary with part-timer Croat turned performer Croon Celestial body College grounds affected American Country showing right name for fish in film? Chewable sweet (6) Call or song marked by mix of normal and falsetto voices (5) Command (5) Centre of operations Communication sent Cask Counterfoil Confess, admit Congeal Crafty Come gradually to an end Coagulated milk, used in making cheese (4) Cha (3) Capital of Saxony largely destroyed in a firestorm by British and American bombers in 1945 (7) Closed with rite in unusual order, like monks in monastery (10) Caught, unlike priests — in court, sort of (4) Curate muddled about name for mythical creature (7) Clear set of policy proposals with nothing eliminated (8) Cuts into cubes (5) Colour (5) Cold dish (5) Christmas show Castaway City in Meuse, France; site of battles in 1792 and 1916 Chemical element; symbol Pb Celia —, actress who portrayed Doris Speed in 2010 BBC TV drama The Road to Coronation Street Claudette —, Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar winner for It Happened One Night Colour of zero scope Contemporary with part-timer Crawler, when sap flows Costume Compass direction Constrictor Computer that may be prescribed? Callas recollected a famous opera venue Clergymen reforming Worcester we sent to Coventry Convolution (9) Childish rabbit (5) Commotion behind boundary where birds may be sheltering (8) Charity donations (4) Craftsman (7) Cleaner sort of opera Come in from barren terrain Cut terribly crude energy Close Coarse file Conflagration Curved structure Cry Cog Cosy trip at sea for islanders Cat flap (anag & Spoonerism) (4,3) C — illegal drug (7) Concur (5) Censure severely (6) Cranky Disney dwarf (6) Cold, like a man on board? (8) Circular about birds? (5,5) Comedian (5) Common (7) Crib (3) Crisp rind of roast pork Case includes North Atlantic Cover old pool Cold meal Catch Chamber Country fellows breaking into song Cry of wonder from George Eliot Continental natives — a super one (anag) (9) Cinema with several screens (9) Corsair (6) Clean feathers (5) Cheerful, informally (6) Cant (5) Clear a path! (7) Colouring stick Chris —, rugby union player who scored a hat-trick for England in a 35-3 Test win over Ireland in 1988 Cultured chap may mangle net terribly Change the name of a gas Compensate by sending a note Collar part Crustacean Cover, perhaps, producing panic Complex character of editor, one immersed in work Call again (6) Cherished getting nonsense on tap (7) Commotion in area south of back-to-back houses (3-2) Current example in New Street covered by press (3,6) Curved roof (4) Counterfoil (4) Complain bitterly (4) Crowd actors (6) Cheerleader’s item Cry of pain County of the Republic of Ireland whose county town is Trim Christopher —, architect who designed St Paul's Cathedral in London Contented with accommodation Cease smashing pots Change during meditation Complaint Canvas shelter Catch Confined Clatter Categorical refusal to accept right country Catastrophe making stars die out Curved roof (4) Counterfoil (4) Complain bitterly (4) Crowd actors (6) Copy of tapestry Cruel sort of complaint Chore Computer program Contend Church seat Craft Colour Corrosive substance Compound such as chalk a litmus test reveals Change course? Move erratically? Not entirely Clothing Choice, highly desirable (4) Clean thoroughly (5) Catch sight of (4) Continuos low background noise (6) Curved roof (4) Counterfoil (4) Complain bitterly (4) Crowd actors (6) Cutlery item Charge novice to touch Converged around border Complain audibly about drink Canyon Consoling word in further education Cause harm to honoured lady holding silver Capital one in seat for more than one Child prodigy (10) Cheese is available in limited amounts (4) Celebration that might follow discovery of a dinosaur's femur? (7) Conductor's toys (7) Cluster of small pellets thrown at gophers (9) Course for the officer commanding in journalism (7) City band round wheel (4) Competent (4) Chair (4) Clenched hand (4) Cover (3) Come into view (6) Calf meat (4) Common —, medium-sized bird that sleeps on the wing City in SW Colombia which hosted the 1971 Pan American Games City and major oil centre in Oklahoma, US, on the Arkansas River Criticised cook and journalist Conscious of a conflict of energy Copper gets point of symbol Cat to get married Cautiously moving border Crushes (like grapes?) underfoot (8) Composer about to back away from gun carrier? (5) Cherished origins of royal and ancient tourist destination (5) Chest-on-chest (7) Commotion (6) Cause to lose one’s bearings Consumes food Cringe in fear Cricket club; 2012 winners of the County Championship Choose alien fence Consumer Costume Clumsy Chop some of the wood Crooked dealing made straight Cathedral city on the River Wye — cattle breed (8) Colourless poison gas — do half remedy (anag) (12) Capone's neckwear expert (8) Credit more staggering sporting achievement (6,4) Concerning a fight (5) Colour that is taken by young guide (7) Corner (5) Coach (5) Communion table (5) Childhood Charged particles Customers collectively Common viper with a zigzag pattern along its back Change paws over Cut in personnel Curved structure Call, Swiss-style Clergyman is to lose his head soon Causing concern (8) Chew (4) Crimes by receivers of stolen goods (8) Couple that are not straight about male’s forbidden love (6) Characteristics describing Romeo meeting love rats (8) Crumbled in golf on series of holes (6) Compact, firm (5) Concluding part (6) Croon (4) Cutlery item
