A selection of ingenious crossword clues from various sources

08012006 | 09:10 Tue 24th Jan 2006 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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1. Army chief initially on manoeuvres for NATO maybe (7)
2. Change at Naples for Nice (8)
3. Could be a more teasing sexual arrangement (6,1,5)
4. Damned heliports made a mess of Canaan! (3,8,4)
5. Dish in which one has ice cream, perhaps (8,6)
6. Displays offering complete access free � come off it (10)
7. End a metro tour here ? (5,4)
8. Fish and chips cooked with lard (9)
9. Foie Gras farm making cheese (7,5)
10. For most of the time somehow I sew and iron (9)
11. Heavenly body turning women on (3,4)
12. If out of sorts, eat no hot Delhi dish (4,2,3,4)
13. Lady Prescott transported some flying reptiles! (12)
14. Last of all, tighten hinges, nuts and bolts (5,9)
15. Like Lady Godiva, with tangled tress covering chest (8)
16. Men Prescott battered ? What an embarrassing situation (11)
17. Month in which disastrous car boot sale, alas, was dropped (7)
18. Occasion for sending greetings card with astounding rhyme possibly (9,6)
19. Outlaw hit and killed by mistake (5,3,3)
20. Race that's fixed: clearly not moral (5,5,5)
21. Rowdy whites dwelt there; so did redskins (3,4,4)
22. She may have dresses cut beguilingly (10)
23. She may like getting her apple - or her chocolates possibly! (13)
24. She sipped her tipple with this for lunch (9,3)
25. Sort of exercises that make Boris ache badly after an hour's gone (8)
26. Team could be valiant losers, not half! (5,5)
27. The plane might be a Jumbo (8)
28. They may investigate more illicit pay fiddles (8,6)
29. They may upset station porters though nothing's missing (5,8)
30. Why is one fated to fail at audition? (4-4)
31. You can play it either way (5)

I'll show the answers at the end of the week

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crofter

3- Menage a trois

crofter

5- Macaroni Cheese

geo0939

One more- 31 Minim

crofter

6- Spectacles

crofter

24- Shepherds Pie

crofter

1- Acronym

crofter

20- Monte Carlo Rally

crofter

14- Sheet Lightning

crofter

15- Starkers

crofter

Is 10- Oftenwise? Not entirely convinced

crofter

I'm running out of steam - with Q10, Q28 and Q30 left unsolved!

08012006

Question Author

I am in admiration of your cryptic solving skills.

Minim is a good answer for 31, but the compiler had another non-palindromic solution.

To save you having sleepless nights until the end of the week, the answers are

For most of the time somehow I sew and iron (9)
HOUSEWIFE hou(r) sew I fe

Why is one fated to fail at audition? (4-4)
TONE DEAF

You can play it either way (5)
DARTS / STRAD

They may investigate more illicit pay fiddles (8,6)
MILITARY POLICE

crofter

Oops - One more! geo0939's answer of "Minim" for Q31 has not been accepted. It surely must be a palindrome - Darts and Strad (for example) would not work out of context!

crofter

You're too kind - but there are some truly awesome solvers on the AnswerBank (you know who you are) that could have taken the last three on board.

I am pleased to note that I had already twigged Q31

Thanks for the challenging start to the day!