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maggieriorda | 22:53 Thu 24th Aug 2023 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Cryptic clues, anagrams and other clues, each answer is a type of animal. I am useless at Cryptic quizzes and I know some of you will enjoy this.

1. Anderson’s 1960’s Aquatic TV Puppet Show (8) (I think it’s Stingray)
2. Convey a short fight (7)
3. Make a fresh “cuppa” (4)
4. Sounds like a Peruvian City (5)
5. Rouse a cat (9)
6. Resettled the rams (7)
7. Deceiving feline (7)
8. Press with great pressure to make it sound (7)
9. A blind one works to make the instrument sound better (4)
10. Wetland Jump Jet (5) (7)
11. Sounds like one woman duped another (8)
12. Help neat confusion (8)
13. Chained up (7)
14. Greet Violet Carson Informally (5)
15. You can Babe for 21 Shillings (6) (3) Guinea Pig (I got that one!)
16. When the sun goes down a Kilner is useful (8)
17. Sounds like a Benedictine Sous-chef (8)
18. Return oil, North (4)
19. Eye a gleaming powerful specimen (5)
20. Jumper with a pocket in front (8) ( I think this must be Kangaroo ?)
21. Battered Short (5)
22. He operates better with a brew inside (8)
23. Tough, short Cockney Queen (6)
24. Famously Tamed (5)
25. The Dwarf leader returns (3)
26. What the dentist wouldn’t use on a remote patient (8)
27. My French bird (8)
28. Split the atom, catastrophic! (6)
29. Put an orange in the blender (6)
30. Squeeze narcotic robots tightly (3) (11)
31. Everyone upset got air (9)
32. Arrived then left (5)
33. Sounds like the heavy squad (6)
34. Rebuff a lot (7)
35. A royal one made of wax (5)

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14 hyena ...hi ena
23:07 Thu 24th Aug 2023
4 lemur ......lima
Are you actually doing the quiz? Some of the answers are very obvious.
3 newt
5 kittiwake
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I’ve managed to get some more…
1. Stingray
4. Lemur
6. Hamster
15. Guinea pig
16. Night jar
20. Kangaroo
21. Horse
30. Boa Constrictor
12. elephant (anag)
18. lio n
28. tomcat (hidden in the clue)
14 hyena ...hi ena
32 camel
31 all igator
24 shrew
25 cod
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I’ve got Marsh Harrier for no. 10.
I’m so impressed at how quickly you have all come up with the answers so far.
34 buffalo
In clue
19 eyE A GLEaming
7 cheetah
28 tomcat ??
In clue
17 chipmunk?
29 orangutan ??
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2 caribou(t)

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