Search Results for: eccentric

1-across – Terrible fate : DOOM

3-across – Decidedly : INSPADES

8-across – Bug – a little child : MITE

9-across – Runaway : FUGITIVE

11-across – Tyke : JACKANAPES

14-across – Prankster : HOAXER

15-across – Auction attendee? : BIDDER

17-across – Fear of heights : ACROPHOBIA

20-across – As petrol may be? : UNLEADED

21-across – Lose : SLOE

22-across – Single chap : BACHELOR

23-across – Clock : ESPY

1-down – Large bottle : DEMIJOHN

2-down – Glasses prescriber? : OPTICIAN

4-down – Sugar/roasted nuts confection : NOUGAT

5-down – Boxing bout : PRIZEFIGHT

6-down – Weakling : DRIP

7-down – Flower supporter? : STEM

10-down – The following of a series of written records : PAPERCHASE

12-down – Eccentrics : ODDBALLS

13-down – Dairy product maker : CREAMERY

16-down – Ravel’s dance? : BOLERO

18-down – Unfeeling : NUMB

19-down – Alliance of countries or parties : BLOC

1-across – A muesli clone’s : MISCELLANEOUS

8-across – Unable to decide : DITHERY

9-across – Start work : SETTO

10-across – Latin god : DEUS

11-across – Well-heeled : AFFLUENT

13-across – Forgetful : SCATTY

14-across – Make : ENABLE

17-across – On the cards : EXPECTED

19-across – Wee drink : DRAM

21-across – Fill with horror : APPAL

22-across – Dependent : RELIANT

24-across – Resumption of friendly relations : RAPPROCHEMENT

1-down – Sticky stuff? : MUD

2-down – Traditional stocking-filler : SATSUMA

3-down – Former partners : EXES

4-down – Stop being annoying : LAYOFF

5-down – One’s not yet fully fledged : NESTLING

6-down – Flamboyantly eccentric : OUTRE

7-down – Not permanent : SHORTTERM

10-down – Dilapidation : DISREPAIR

12-down – One’s particular about how things are done : STICKLER

15-down – Mass : BARRAGE

16-down – Containing iron : FERRIC

18-down – Online advertisement : POPUP

20-down – Delight : GLEE

23-down – Poor-quality items : TAT

1-across – Suitable compromise : HAPPYMEDIUM

9-across – Preliminary paintwork : UNDERCOAT

10-across – Be unwell : AIL

11-across – Asian country which has the world’s only non-rectangular national flag : NEPAL

13-across – Snookers : STYMIES

14-across – Corrupt – Johnny? : ROTTEN

15-across – Rectangular : OBLONG

18-across – Tried : REHEARD

20-across – Intense light beam : LASER

21-across – Menagerie : ZOO

22-across – Diluted espresso : AMERICANO

24-across – It opens a lot of doors : SKELETONKEY

2-down – Coordinating conjunction : AND

3-down – One released from prison conditionally : PAROLEE

4-down – Admirer of China’s ‘Great Helmsman’ : MAOIST

5-down – Eccentric : DOTTY

6-down – In complete agreement : UNANIMOUS

7-down – Award picked up by Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor : TURNERPRIZE

8-down – Action hero, adversary of Ming the Merciless : FLASHGORDON

12-down – Farmer’s implement : PITCHFORK

16-down – E.g. gold ingots : BULLION

17-down – Yearly period which has its own calendar : ADVENT

19-down – Help : AVAIL

23-down – Shock and ___ : AWE

1-across – Tale of woe : HARDLUCKSTORY

8-across – Ditch – derisive or amused expression : HAHA

9-across – Dormant : INACTIVE

10-across – It put an end to Louis XVI : GUILLOTINE

12-across – The ___ Cometh, O’Neill play : ICEMAN

14-across – Anise-flavoured drink : PASTIS

15-across – Eccentric or dozy person – escaped cat : SPACECADET

19-across – Perform an aquatic sport : WATERSKI

20-across – Prank : HOAX

21-across – Insect which practises sexual cannibalism : PRAYINGMANTIS

2-down – Mexican resort : ACAPULCO

3-down – Speak slowly : DRAWL

4-down – Mythical beast – highly profitable new business : UNICORN

5-down – Military uniform material : KHAKI

6-down – Walks unsteadily – stretto : TOTTERS

7-down – Wild party : RAVE

11-down – Cultured folk : LITERATI

13-down – Baffling phenomenon : MYSTERY

14-down – Insurance payment : PREMIUM

16-down – Incendiarism : ARSON

17-down – Deathly pale : ASHEN

18-down – Hippy musical : HAIR

1-across – Content designed to attract attention online : CLICKBAIT

8-across – Kind of credit card : VISA

9-across – Intimate chat : TETEATETE

10-across – Crack : CHAP

13-across – Ungainly : GAWKY

15-across – Carved : GRAVEN

16-across – Greek geometer : EUCLID

17-across – Rain cloud : NIMBUS

19-across – Current unit : AMPERE

20-across – Eccentric : POTTY

21-across – Skin complaint : ACNE

24-across – Pretends to be ill : MALINGERS

25-across – Coward or Gallagher? : NOEL

26-across – Have a party, say : CELEBRATE

2-down – Welsh emblem : LEEK

3-down – Having male and female pupils : COED

4-down – Gotham superhero : BATMAN

5-down – Consumption : INTAKE

6-down – Successful person : HIGHFLIER

7-down – ‘Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may’ : CARPEDIEM

11-down – Columnist who gives readers advice : AGONYAUNT

12-down – Hawk : WARMONGER

13-down – Stop lying? : GETUP

14-down – Delicious : YUMMY

18-down – Comfort : SOLACE

19-down – Garb : ATTIRE

22-down – Jelly made from seaweed : AGAR

23-down – Blast! : DRAT

1-across – Money returned after over-payment : REBATE

4-across – Move up, down or across on a computer : SCROLL

9-across – Piercing cry : SCREECH

10-across – Eccentric : BATTY

11-across – Healthcare professional : MEDIC

12-across – Cycle storage : PANNIER

13-across – Atelier’s aim : MATERIALISE

18-across – Said : ALLEGED

20-across – Meat preserved with 22? : BACON

22-across – Signal, screen or ring : SMOKE

23-across – Hostile : WARLIKE

24-across – Coming to a conclusion : ENDING

25-across – It’s representative : SYMBOL

1-down – Pick up : RESUME

2-down – Exposed : BARED

3-down – Cloying sentimentality : TREACLE

5-down – Resting place at sea : CABIN

6-down – Clothing combinations : OUTFITS

7-down – Different levels : LAYERS

8-down – Store fronts : SHOPWINDOWS

14-down – Taken as a whole : ALLTOLD

15-down – Freedom : LIBERTY

16-down – Fuss – and bother : HASSLE

17-down – Not healthy : UNWELL

19-down – Envious – and immature : GREEN

21-down – Move up : CLIMB

1-across – Pickled herrings : ROLLMOPS

5-across – Matching shoes – and socks : PAIR

9-across – Talent : FLAIR

10-across – Created by volcanic activity, as rock : IGNEOUS

11-across – Humorous : LIGHTHEARTED

13-across – Intense chest pain : ANGINA

14-across – Shrewdness : ACUMEN

17-across – Difficult to comprehend : MINDBOGGLING

20-across – Strong-smelling gas used to make fertilisers : AMMONIA

21-across – Eccentric : BATTY

22-across – He’s a snappy dresser : DUDE

23-across – Historically, a ship’s cheapest accommodation : STEERAGE

1-down – Decorative collar : RUFF

2-down – Hiring : LEASING

3-down – Goldman Sachs, for instance : MERCHANTBANK

4-down – Tragic situation : PLIGHT

6-down – Going on : AFOOT

7-down – One of the locals : RESIDENT

8-down – Immense – club alliance : INCALCULABLE

12-down – Cornfield or pasture : FARMLAND

15-down – Detail : MINUTIA

16-down – Very shocked : AGHAST

18-down – One’s always on the move : NOMAD

19-down – Kind – sort : TYPE

1-across – It should calm you down : SEDATIVE

5-across – UK’s largest kind of beetle : STAG

9-across – Supermarket walkway : AISLE

10-across – Deceptively clever? : CUNNING

11-across – Start : COMMENCEMENT

13-across – Firstborn : ELDEST

14-across – Overused phrase : CLICHE

17-across – Pompous jargon : GOBBLEDYGOOK

20-across – Subtlety : FINESSE

21-across – Very eccentric : NUTTY

22-across – In 1906, ‘terminological inexactitude’, is what Winston Churchill called one of these : LIES

23-across – Surrender — deny : ABNEGATE

1-down – Imitation : SHAM

2-down – Lack of agreement : DISCORD

3-down – It’ll keep your drink hot : THERMOSFLASK

4-down – Unoccupied : VACANT

6-down – Double : TWICE

7-down – Ambitious individual : GOGETTER

8-down – Telling niece : INTELLIGENCE

12-down – Vindictive : VENGEFUL

15-down – Balkan country : CROATIA

16-down – Rightly or wrongly, for example : ADVERB

18-down – Overindulge : BINGE

19-down – Small cheeky child : TYKE

5-across – Tact : DIPLOMACY

8-across – Turned-up part of a sleeve : CUFF

9-across – Long traffic jam : TAILBACK

10-across – Crush — fruit eaten as a vegetable : SQUASH

11-across – Rent all or part of a leased property to another person : SUBLET

13-across – Bath scrubber : LOOFAH

15-across – Filthy : GRUBBY

16-across – Totally alone : ISOLATED

18-across – Flick : FILM

19-across – Of greatest importance : PARAMOUNT

1-down – Rabble : RIFFRAFF

2-down – Bug in the works? : GLITCH

3-down – Internet messages : EMAILS

4-down – Blackleg : SCAB

6-down – Greenish-blue gemstone : TURQUOISE

7-down – Eccentric : SCREWBALL

12-down – Hairstyle — nub of fat : BOUFFANT

14-down – Professional killer : HITMAN

15-down – No dogs : GODSON

17-down – Give temporarily : LOAN

5-across – Large paper pad on a stand used for making presentations : FLIPCHART

8-across – Young male horse : COLT

9-across – As is the Pope : CATHOLIC

10-across – Reading matter available from the internet : EBOOKS

11-across – Toasted bun : MUFFIN

13-across – Despicable : SCUMMY

15-across – Awkwardly eccentric : QUIRKY

16-across – Japanese dish — I try IKEA : TERIYAKI

18-across – South American cape : HORN

19-across – Prince of Darkness : BEELZEBUB

1-down – Raised horizontal surface : PLATFORM

2-down – Makes more interesting : SPICES

3-down – Cadence : RHYTHM

4-down – Consequently : ERGO

6-down – Last leader of the Soviet Union, d. August 2022 : GORBACHEV

7-down – Mary Quant’s iconic attire : MINISKIRT

12-down – Loyal : FAITHFUL

14-down – Every 52 weeks : YEARLY

15-down – Arrows carrier : QUIVER

17-down – Wild goat : IBEX