Search Results for: eccentric

1-across – Suspension of sensibility : STUPOR

4-across – Sleeve folds : CUFFS

7-across – Perforate with gunshot — poser : RIDDLE

8-across – Plague — nocturnal animal : BADGER

9-across – Pole — box : SPAR

10-across – Obliterated : WIPEDOUT

12-across – Smallest US state : RHODEISLAND

17-across – Expression of disdain or unhappiness : HARRUMPH

19-across – Place — zit : SPOT

20-across – Odd type : WEIRDO

21-across – Eccentric : SCREWY

22-across – Less common : RARER

23-across – Gift of property by will : LEGACY

1-down – Captain — small butterfly : SKIPPER

2-down – Experience : UNDERGO

3-down – Swamp — have a strong emotional effect on : OVERWHELM

4-down – Bird — lifting device : CRANE

5-down – Ship warner : FOGHORN

6-down – Elf : SPRITE

11-down – With great speed : POSTHASTE

13-down – Dog — bird : HARRIER

14-down – Country of Graz and Linz : AUSTRIA

15-down – Entrance to a room : DOORWAY

16-down – Washing facility — worthless lot : SHOWER

18-down – Governed by : UNDER

1-across – Make less dangerous : DEFUSE

4-across – May, perhaps — bound : SPRING

9-across – Libyan city : TRIPOLI

10-across – Jack : KNAVE

11-across – Greek letter : SIGMA

12-across – Of pigs : PORCINE

13-across – : HIGHPITCHED

18-across – Custard cream, say? : BISCUIT

20-across – Beat — lentil : PULSE

22-across – Brilliant effect : ECLAT

23-across – Small written communication : NOTELET

24-across – Bid — not toughened : TENDER

25-across – Actor — footballer? : PLAYER

1-down – Dislike intensely : DETEST

2-down – Throw — short affair : FLING

3-down – Bear — belly : STOMACH

5-down – Card game : POKER

6-down – Think of : IMAGINE

7-down – Old eccentric chap : GEEZER

8-down – Work of art — initial pong : OILPAINTING

14-down – Hormone regulating the amount glucose in the blood : INSULIN

15-down – Upper case — 9, say? : CAPITAL

16-down – Item — demur : OBJECT

17-down – Item sent – character : LETTER

19-down – Loosen : UNTIE

21-down – Money : LOLLY

1-across – Male rabbit : BUCK

3-across – Loop of fabric-covered elastic holding a ponytail : SCRUNCHY

9-across – Castigate : CHASTEN

10-across – Cast : THROW

11-across – Padded mattress for sleeping on the floor : FUTON

12-across – Sidestepped : EVADED

14-across – Big dipper : ROLLERCOASTER

17-across – Blush : REDDEN

19-across – Corrupt : TAINT

22-across – Up in the air : ALOFT

23-across – Under way : INTRAIN

24-across – Stripping bare : DENUDING

25-across – Greek goddess of spring : HEBE

1-down – Have the opposite of the intended effect : BACKFIRE

2-down – Seashore : COAST

4-down – Patronising attitude : CONDESCENSION

5-down – Person holding extreme views : ULTRA

6-down – Flow of electricity : CURRENT

7-down – Two-masted sailing boat : YAWL

8-down – Immediately : ATONCE

13-down – Affectation : PRETENCE

15-down – Recline : LIEDOWN

16-down – Having hardheaded intelligence : ASTUTE

18-down – Old-fashioned : DATED

20-down – Figure : IMAGE

21-down – Eccentric — stiff paper : CARD

1-across – Woman’s shirt : BLOUSE

4-across – Sudden pleasurable excitements : KICKS

7-across – Ship’s first trip : MAIDEN

8-across – See 7 : VOYAGE

9-across – Girl’s name : ANNA

10-across – Imposed : ENFORCED

12-across – Africa’s highest peak : KILIMANJARO

17-across – Where those ostracised are sent : COVENTRY

19-across – Exaggerated praise : PUFF

20-across – Jobsworth? : LITTLE

21-across – See 20 : HITLER

22-across – African country on the Red Sea : SUDAN

23-across – Thoroughfare : STREET

1-down – Young person of the 1950s, nonconformist in dress and behaviour : BEATNIK

2-down – Eccentric : ODDBALL

3-down – Sola topi : SUNHELMET

4-down – Japanese city — Tokyo : KYOTO

5-down – Poet known as the father of English literature, d. 1400 : CHAUCER

6-down – Firm — sweetheart : STEADY

11-down – Well I’m blowed! : FANCYTHAT

13-down – Asked round : INVITED

14-down – Someone who has had a limb surgically removed : AMPUTEE

15-down – Strikingly unconventional : OFFBEAT

16-down – Town in Greater Manchester, selling its own cakes since 1793 : ECCLES

18-down – Synthetic fabric : NYLON

1-across – Senior clergyman : BISHOP

4-across – Dust : POWDER

9-across – Tremble through fear : SHUDDER

10-across – Card suit : CLUBS

11-across – Line dance? : CONGA

12-across – Set alight deliberately : TORCHED

13-across – Aggressive : BELLIGERENT

18-across – Exceed the limit of : OVERRUN

20-across – Melodious sounds : MUSIC

22-across – From which a mighty oak may grow? : ACORN

23-across – Run about playfully : SCAMPER

24-across – Shilly-shally : DITHER

25-across – Well-balanced : STEADY

1-down – Fundamentals : BASICS

2-down – Reject with contempt : SPURN

3-down – Eccentric : ODDBALL

5-down – Happen : OCCUR

6-down – Eldest son of the French king : DAUPHIN

7-down – Stay — desire : RESIDE

8-down – Key character in a novel : PROTAGONIST

14-down – Make level : EVENOUT

15-down – Mantrap : RAMPANT

16-down – Yellow-belly : COWARD

17-down – Move hurriedly : SCURRY

19-down – Limit of effectiveness : RANGE

21-down – Pigment got from cuttlefish ink : SEPIA

1-across – Say no to — rubbish : REFUSE

4-across – Legal entitlements : RIGHTS

8-across – Fray : CHAFE

9-across – Detainee — gash toe : HOSTAGE

10-across – Thorn : PRICKLE

11-across – Large spoon : LADLE

12-across – Quirky : ECCENTRIC

17-across – Boisterous : ROWDY

19-across – Furniture item : CABINET

21-across – Very virtuous : SAINTLY

22-across – One always ready to have a go : TRIER

23-across – Lead astray : SEDUCE

24-across – In good spirits : CHEERY

1-down – Pierce : RECIPE

2-down – Not robust : FRAGILE

3-down – Cut of beef : STEAK

5-down – Parochial : INSULAR

6-down – Amass and store privately : HOARD

7-down – Israeli monetary unit : SHEKEL

9-down – Loud and persistent clamour : HUEANDCRY

13-down – Mysteriously obscure : CRYPTIC

14-down – Brief but pertinent : CONCISE

15-down – Potato snack : CRISPS

16-down – Robust : STURDY

18-down – Quirky : WEIRD

20-down – Macho : BUTCH

1-across – Bill of fare : MENU

3-across – Cop’s foal : FOOLSCAP

9-across – Roman sea god : NEPTUNE

10-across – Racecourse near Windsor : ASCOT

11-across – Sharp hooked claw : TALON

12-across – Chant : INTONE

14-across – Overwhelmed by grief : BROKENHEARTED

17-across – Population survey : CENSUS

19-across – Wash vigorously : SCRUB

22-across – Historical era : EPOCH

23-across – Spray can : AEROSOL

24-across – Meddler : BUSYBODY

25-across – Looks at — organs : EYES

1-down – Province of central Canada : MANITOBA

2-down – Asian country, capital Kathmandu : NEPAL

4-down – Very brief affair : ONENIGHTSTAND

5-down – Minimum : LEAST

6-down – Pina colada ingredient : COCONUT

7-down – Top of one’s head : PATE

8-down – Pear-shaped fruit : QUINCE

13-down – Eccentrics : ODDBALLS

15-down – Burdensome : ONEROUS

16-down – Stares : ASSERT

18-down – Term of respect in India : SAHIB

20-down – Involving danger : RISKY

21-down – Pavement edge : KERB

1-across – Libertine : DEBAUCHEE

8-across – Start of the second quarter : APRIL

9-across – Zealot : FANATIC

10-across – Lazy person : SLUGGARD

11-across – Expose one’s buttocks : MOON

13-across – Be present : ATTEND

14-across – German : MANGER

16-across – Told porkies : LIED

17-across – Yellow spice : TURMERIC

19-across – Be on your guard! : LOOKOUT

20-across – Upright : ERECT

21-across – Young birds : NESTLINGS

1-down – Assiduous : DILIGENT

2-down – Previously : BEFORE

3-down – Arm bone : ULNA

4-down – London area, centre of the UK diamond trade : HATTONGARDEN

5-down – Strange and uncon­ventional behaviour : ECCENTRICITY

6-down – US financial aid programme for Europe after World War II : MARSHALLPLAN

7-down – Dispute a decision : ARGUETHETOSS

12-down – Innocuous : HARMLESS

15-down – Thrust oneself into a conversation : BUTTIN

18-down – Disgusting : FOUL

5-across – Financial support : SPONSORSHIP

7-across – Banter : JEST

8-across – Oppose head-on : CONFRONT

9-across – UK pints : SPUTNIK

11-across – Equal — lucifer : MATCH

13-across – Slightly unwell : PEAKY

14-across – Deliberate infliction of pain : CRUELTY

16-across – Heaven : PARADISE

17-across – Apprehension : FEAR

18-across – Restrain : KEEPINCHECK

1-down – Vessel for baptismal water : FONT

2-down – Extrasensory : PSYCHIC

3-down – Person of eccentric habits : CRANK

4-down – Her goats : SHORTAGE

5-down – Someone repairs tall church structures : STEEPLEJACK

6-down – Sudden overwhelming anxiety : PANICATTACK

10-down – Please sit! : TAKEAPEW

12-down – Need for prompt action : URGENCY

15-down – Ape : MIMIC

17-down – Cut and run : FLEE

1-across – New York : THEBIGAPPLE

9-across – Tops : ATTHEMOST

10-across – Low : MOO

11-across – Bullion bar : INGOT

13-across – Upper-case letter : CAPITAL

14-across – Line of text indicating what the passage below it is about : HEADER

15-across – Braved : ADVERB

18-across – Eccentric : ODDBALL

20-across – Difficult question : POSER

21-across – Auditory organ : EAR

22-across – Provide an initial impetus : KICKSTART

24-across – Outlay : EXPENDITURE

2-down – Success : HIT

3-down – Respire — inspire — expire : BREATHE

4-down – Habitually grumpy person : GROUCH

5-down – Erected : PUTUP

6-down – Infinite : LIMITLESS

7-down – I hire parson : PARISHIONER

8-down – Work together : COLLABORATE

12-down – Motor race : GRANDPRIX

16-down – Down payment : DEPOSIT

17-down – Situated : PLACED

19-down – Location of the talus : ANKLE

23-down – Atmosphere : AIR