Search Results for: wandering

1-across – Tackle an unpleasant situation : BITETHEBULLET

8-across – White dwarf, say : STAR

9-across – Sheath for a blade : SCABBARD

10-across – Buoyancy aid : LIFEJACKET

12-across – Big Apple borough : QUEENS

14-across – Showing compassion : CARING

15-across – Favourable : PROPITIOUS

19-across – Energetic : VIGOROUS

20-across – No longer available : GONE

21-across – Wandering — pigeon trainer : PEREGRINATION

2-down – Fascinate : INTRIGUE

3-down – Strange and disturbing : EERIE

4-down – Cavalrymen : HUSSARS

5-down – Expressionless : BLANK

6-down – Bisque ingredient : LOBSTER

7-down – Lord : EARL

11-down – Sly slur : INNUENDO

13-down – Blow up : EXPLODE

14-down – Deep red : CRIMSON

16-down – Aroma : ODOUR

17-down – Bullion bar : INGOT

18-down – US coin : DIME

1-across – Gamble everything : GOFORBROKE

7-across – Largest city in the Germany state of Saxony : LEIPZIG

8-across – Frenzied : MANIC

10-across – Immense : VAST

11-across – Wickedness : VILLAINY

13-across – Think logically : REASON

15-across – Female water sprite — in nude : UNDINE

17-across – Survey of how people have just voted : EXITPOLL

18-across – Lump of earth : CLOD

21-across – Rigid part of a bicycle : FRAME

22-across – Of little importance : TRIVIAL

23-across – Lies : FALSEHOODS

1-down – Broad smiles : GRINS

2-down – Effervescence : FIZZ

3-down – Get back : REGAIN

4-down – Wandering : RAMBLING

5-down – Thor Heyerdahl’s raft : KONTIKI

6-down – Level of car : CLOVERLEAF

9-down – Heavy breed of draft horse from Scotland : CLYDESDALE

12-down – Squeeze : COMPRESS

14-down – Arabian Nights hero : ALIBABA

16-down – Snag : GLITCH

19-down – Dens : LAIRS

20-down – Large luxurious car : LIMO

1-across – Upwardly curled facial growth : HANDLEBAR

8-across – Earnest entreaty : PLEA

9-across – See 1 : MOUSTACHE

10-across – Fingered organ : HAND

13-across – Rope used to restrain an animal : LEASH

15-across – Stayed : ABIDED

16-across – Large open car with folding top : TOURER

17-across – Fleshy edible root : RADISH

19-across – Spring, say : SEASON

20-across – Whole amount : TOTAL

21-across – Sinner who became a follower of Jesus : MARY

24-across – See 21 : MAGDALENE

25-across – 1969 moon walker : NEIL

26-across – See 25 : ARMSTRONG

2-down – Open-mouthed : AGOG

3-down – Powdery material blown about in the air : DUST

4-down – Very happy : ELATED

5-down – Very unhappy : AGHAST

6-down – See 7 : ALBATROSS

7-down – Oceanic animal — large bird’s not a swan : WANDERING

11-down – Nuptials : MATRIMONY

12-down – Twittering twit? : BIRDBRAIN

13-down – Smallest amount : LEAST

14-down – Place to stay : HOTEL

18-down – Guff : HOTAIR

19-down – Inhabitants of an Arab kingdom : SAUDIS

22-down – Britpop band — indistinct vision : BLUR

23-down – Soon : ANON

5-across – Prepared to obey others unquestioningly : SUBSERVIENT

7-across – Lacking hair : BALD

8-across – Not abstract : CONCRETE

9-across – Long, eventful, wandering journey : ODYSSEY

11-across – English county : ESSEX

13-across – Sarcastic : SNIDE

14-across – Indicated pain : GROANED

16-across – Plato’s mentor : SOCRATES

17-across – Final check at chess : MATE

18-across – Pioneer : TRAILBLAZER

1-down – : IBID

2-down – Delivered from danger : RESCUED

3-down – Sheep-like : OVINE

4-down – US Midwest state : NEBRASKA

5-down – Conspicuous : STANDINGOUT

6-down – In every detail : TOTHELETTER

10-down – Relating to the stars : SIDEREAL

12-down – Grapple : WRESTLE

15-down – Animal compartment : STALL

17-down – It’s easy to get lost in one : MAZE

1-across – Cassiopeia, for example : CONSTELLATION

8-across – Instrument for measuring electric current : AMMETER

9-across – Faint : SWOON

10-across – Isle of Wight resort : RYDE

11-across – Italian cheese : PARMESAN

13-across – Chirping insect : CICADA

14-across – Acid neutraliser : ALKALI

17-across – Something left out : OMISSION

19-across – Don’t go! : STAY

21-across – Likeness : IMAGE

22-across – Exult in victory : TRIUMPH

24-across – Voluntarily helpful and sympathetic person : GOODSAMARITAN

1-down – Rosie Lee : CHA

2-down – Wandering from place to place : NOMADIC

3-down – Carry : TOTE

4-down – Cattle-catching rope : LARIAT

5-down – Put together : ASSEMBLE

6-down – Fetters : IRONS

7-down – Person of no importance : NONENTITY

10-down – Settling of accounts : RECKONING

12-down – Homeric wanderer : ODYSSEUS

15-down – Vending machine : AUTOMAT

16-down – Shakespearean weaver : BOTTOM

18-down – US state, capital Boise : IDAHO

20-down – One whose pants are on fire? : LIAR

23-down – One of Attila’s people : HUN

1-across – Self-admirer : NARCISSIST

7-across – Inflatable aid for those learning to swim : ARMBAND

8-across – Drink deeply : QUAFF

10-across – Conclusive end of a boxing match : KAYO

11-across – : BOGEYMAN

13-across – : NUTRIA

15-across – : SCURVY

17-across – Area for journalists at a sporting venue : PRESSBOX

18-across – Russian ruler : TSAR

21-across – Animal track : SPOOR

22-across – Odd : CURIOUS

23-across – Stiff — obstinate : INFLEXIBLE

1-down – Somewhere else and I might not object! : NIMBY

2-down – True : REAL

3-down – Within a building : INDOOR

4-down – Arrangement in a certain order : SEQUENCE

5-down – Person sending unsolicited emails : SPAMMER

6-down – Conceited, impertinent person : JACKANAPES

9-down – Masquerade costume? : FANCYDRESS

12-down – Wandering musician of old : MINSTREL

14-down – Restrict : TIEDOWN

16-down – Bone at the bottom of the spine : COCCYX

19-down – Blasphemed : SWORE

20-down – Catch hold : GRAB

1-across – Drinking session spread over several bars : PUBCRAWL

5-across – Horse race — trees : OAKS

9-across – Diddle : SWIZZ

10-across – Race aim : AMERICA

11-across – High slender back to woman’s shoe : STILETTOHEEL

13-across – Refer indirectly : ALLUDE

14-across – Chatter incoherently : GIBBER

17-across – At a right angle to the vertical : HORIZONTALLY

20-across – Pass powers to regional government : DEVOLVE

21-across – Greek epic about the siege of Troy : ILIAD

22-across – Minute passage in skin : PORE

23-across – Performer of dangerous acts in films etc : STUNTMAN

1-down – Of the wealthy classes : POSH

2-down – City and port of southwest England : BRISTOL

3-down – Glitzy showmanship : RAZZLEDAZZLE

4-down – Valuable possessions : WEALTH

6-down – Similar : ALIKE

7-down – Unimportant people or things : SMALLFRY

8-down – Religious group — grade in series of designated values : DENOMINATION

12-down – Successful no longer : WASHEDUP

15-down – One of the Low Countries : BELGIUM

16-down – Devise : INVENT

18-down – Person given to wandering : ROVER

19-down – PM, 1955-57 : EDEN

1-across – Acting dumb? : MIME

3-across – Gold bullion repository in Kentucky : FORTKNOX

9-across – Candidate : NOMINEE

10-across – Cuban dance : RUMBA

11-across – Smallest amount : LEAST

12-across – Nonentity : NOBODY

14-across – From Chile, for example : SOUTHAMERICAN

17-across – Pleasant walk : STROLL

19-across – Having a seen it all before attitude : BLASE

22-across – Coloured liquid in tins : PAINT

23-across – Great fire : INFERNO

24-across – Communist guerrilla movement in Asia, 1954-75 : VIETCONG

25-across – Hem : EDGE

1-down – Leonardo da Vinci’s enigmatic portrait : MONALISA

2-down – Venomous African snake : MAMBA

4-down – Wonderful person, almost unique? : ONEINAMILLION

5-down – Beat : THROB

6-down – Wandering : NOMADIC

7-down – Festive season : XMAS

8-down – Few bars of music – grab : SNATCH

13-down – Again : ONCEMORE

15-down – Become unwound – wine nut : UNTWINE

16-down – Reject in an ungrateful manner : REBUFF

18-down – Of vision : OPTIC

20-down – Bitter : ACRID

21-down – Old black marketeer : SPIV

5-across – Many-legged creepy-crawly : CENTIPEDE

8-across – Large brass instrument : TUBA

9-across – In no prearranged order : ATRANDOM

10-across – Rigorous : STRICT

11-across – Fleet of warships : ARMADA

13-across – Ditch dug as fortification : TRENCH

15-across – Younger – subordinate : JUNIOR

16-across – Implement for plucking strings : PLECTRUM

18-across – Difficult piece of work : TASK

19-across – Large furry flying insect : BUMBLEBEE

1-down – Kinsman or kinswoman : RELATION

2-down – Finally : ATLAST

3-down – Ancient Greek city synonymous with austerity : SPARTA

4-down – Norse god : ODIN

6-down – Insect with large, usually brightly coloured, wings : BUTTERFLY

7-down – Damp-loving creepy-crawly : WOODLOUSE

12-down – Wandering musician of old : MINSTREL

14-down – As a result of this : HEREBY

15-down – Knitwear – bounder : JUMPER

17-down – Association for people with common interest : CLUB

1-across – Object blocking passage : BARRIER

8-across – South American republic : ECUADOR

9-across – Shortfall : DEFICIT

10-across – Not recognised : UNKNOWN

11-across – Repetitive drone – end of weaver’s thread : THRUM

13-across – Party’s publicly declared aims : MANIFESTO

15-across – Subject to systematic indoctrination : BRAINWASH

18-across – Provide : ENDOW

21-across – Medicine counteracting gastric juices : ANTACID

22-across – Vertical : UPRIGHT

23-across – Wandering : NOMADIC

24-across – Way by canal : TOWPATH

1-down – Bathroom fitting : BIDET

2-down – Turn to : REFER

3-down – In solitary confinement : INCOMMUNICADO

4-down – Come back : RETURN

5-down – Result of complete chance : LUCKOFTHEDRAW

6-down – Hateful : ODIOUS

7-down – At once! : PRONTO

12-down – : HOUR

14-down – Threesome : TRIO

15-down – Muscular : BRAWNY

16-down – Breathing disorder : ASTHMA

17-down – Kidnap : ABDUCT

19-down – Tenet : DOGMA

20-down – Observe – timepiece : WATCH