| Clues | Answers |
| Alliance | BLOC |
| Animated films | CARTOONS |
| Bitterly regretted | RUED |
| Blunders | SLIPUPS |
| Book lover | READER |
| Cannons | GUNS |
| Citrus-flavoured brew | LEMONTEA |
| City dweller, unsociable person, captures professor | LONDONER |
| Clove-crushing utensil | GARLICPRESS |
| Comfortable about weapons | GUNS |
| Dinosaur | TRICERATOPS |
| Dinosaur takes a moment to spar possibly | TRICERATOPS |
| Direction to follow new manual for old girls | ALUMNAE |
| Engine fluid | OIL |
| Equip | RIG |
| Female graduates | ALUMNAE |
| Finally, just for you, hanging basket | TRUG |
| First of tan tights – but not these! | THOSE |
| Fixing ailment with a copper band | CURING |
| Foretell | AUGUR |
| Foretell something boring, say | AUGUR |
| From Scandinavia we go north, rain dreadful | NORWEGIAN |
| Garden basket | TRUG |
| Gondola city | VENICE |
| Grease located in boiler | OIL |
| Healing | CURING |
| Immense | INESTIMABLE |
| It's mineable, perhaps, but too big to be guessed | INESTIMABLE |
| Kitchen crusher girls scrape wildly | GARLICPRESS |
| Make one melt with a drink | LEMONTEA |
| Manipulate sailing tackle | RIG |
| Mule is smashing early dish | MUESLI |
| Native of England's capital | LONDONER |
| Nothing in boxes but funny drawings | CARTOONS |
| Person studying gets two poor grades in the end | READER |
| Plural of that | THOSE |
| Political group to obstruct sound | BLOC |
| Poor Peter cheats but is class favourite | TEACHERSPET |
| Quiz show member | PANELLIST |
| Regretted sounding impolite | RUED |
| Scandinavian language | NORWEGIAN |
| Short trousers or stole cut badly | CULOTTES |
| Silent pal to upset Hislop or Merton, perhaps | PANELLIST |
| Split skirt | CULOTTES |
| Students' rising should commence with errors | SLIPUPS |
| Swiss breakfast cereal | MUESLI |
| Tutor's favourite | TEACHERSPET |
| Very English French resort and Italian city | VENICE |
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The Sun - Two Speed - February 1 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers
The Sun - Two Speed Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Feb 1 2018
New York Times - February 1 2018 Thursday Crossword Puzzle Answers
| Clues | Answers |
| 'Arrival' actress Adams | AMY |
| 'Have you ___?' | HEARD |
| 'Talk away' | IMALLEARS |
| 'The Simpsons' bus driver | OTTO |
| 'Uh, excuse me' | AHEM |
| *Legal acting in a 1980s prime-time soap opera? | LINDAEVANS |
| *Malady of French history? | MARIEANTOINETTE |
| *Regent of film criticism? | ROGEREBERT |
| *Roman of Hollywood? | RYANONEAL |
| 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 ..., e.g | SERIES |
| A camera may be set on it | AUTO |
| According to | PER |
| At the start ... or how the first two letters of each starred clue relate to the answer? | INITIALLY |
| Average guy | SCHMO |
| Award for Agency of the Year, e.g | CLIO |
| Barfly | SOT |
| Basketball sportscaster Dick | VITALE |
| Beach look? | OGLE |
| Beat it! | BONGO |
| Cartesian conclusion | IAM |
| Castigate, with 'into' | LACE |
| Child's bear | TEDDY |
| Clinches | ICES |
| Decide to join | OPTIN |
| Den : bear :: holt : ___ | OTTER |
| Difficult situation | SPOT |
| Digital communication, for short? | ASL |
| Endangered state bird | NENE |
| FiveThirtyEight.com owner | ESPN |
| Frigid temps | TEENS |
| Frost | HOAR |
| Get blubbery | CRY |
| Give an address | ORATE |
| Goof | ERR |
| Handle | NAME |
| Have a date night at home, say | DINEIN |
| Impressionism? | APERY |
| In many cases | OFTEN |
| In the worst way | SORELY |
| James with a posthumous Pulitzer | AGEE |
| John of colonial Jamestown | ROLFE |
| Like one line on a sales receipt | PRETAX |
| Like rock stars among fans | SWARMED |
| Literary matchmaker | EMMA |
| Magnate | TITAN |
| Maryland state symbol | ORIOLE |
| Mom's mom | NANA |
| No longer serving: Abbr | RETD |
| No. crunchers | CPAS |
| One joining a union? | BRIDE |
| Operating system developed at Bell Labs | UNIX |
| Over there | YON |
| Paradise in 'On the Road' | SAL |
| Pens | WRITES |
| Pretend | LETON |
| Qatar's capital | DOHA |
| Ranks | ECHELONS |
| Really binges, in brief | ODS |
| Sass | LIP |
| Seven-time Cy Young Award winner of the 1980s-2000s | CLEMENS |
| Shoe company based in Southern California | LAGEAR |
| Something a doc might order | MRI |
| Starbucks specification | VENTI |
| Student of Socrates | PLATO |
| Subject of some biomedical research | STEMCELLS |
| Subjects of the Second Commandment | IDOLS |
| The void | OBLIVION |
| They may follow buzzers, for short | OTS |
| Tons | ALOAD |
| Tough person to tolerate | PAIN |
| Vast amounts | OCEANS |
| Velvety growth | MOSS |
| When many kids start fifth grade | AGETEN |
| Yours, in Tours | ATOI |
The Telegraph - Toughie - January 31 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers
| Clues | Answers |
| A sailor turning up, one with a lot on his shoulders | ATLAS |
| A superior monarch's palace in which a knight is well-informed | AUCOURANT |
| Cane hurt once -- sadly hard to forget | TROUNCE |
| City dwelling without foundation not toppling over | HOUSTON |
| Comedian to voice discontent, adding nothing | GROUCHO |
| Each returning soldier's protection | AEGIS |
| End-points covered by some Parisian master's original type of philosophy | DETERMINISM |
| Fish may be lonesome swimming around lake | LEMONSOLE |
| Head is one inclined to get short-tempered, no leader | NAPPER |
| Hesitation about objection -- speak briefly making counter-argument | REBUTTAL |
| In part of cell find bone, old and remarkable | RIBOSOME |
| Inappropriate verses priest originally used for evening prayer | VESPERS |
| Indication of pain, say, from little son getting yellowish-white | SCREAM |
| It's right of king's eldest son maybe to be touring empire in trouble | PRIMOGENITURE |
| Jamaican music or Indian music in which note is repeated | RAGGA |
| Lasses with hem that's ridiculous may be such? | SHAMELESS |
| Military commander giving short demonstration with weapon | SHOGUN |
| Olympic Games time perhaps with no gold? Zero enjoyment! | GUSTO |
| One doing something right, type to be embraced by fellow | PERFORMER |
| Opening piece of music has magnificence | CHASM |
| Plant wrecks top of historic Welsh location -- a piece of equipment being introduced | MARSHMARIGOLD |
| Politician in London borough is piercing | EMPALING |
| Rebel -- audible one in action on the roof | TYLER |
| Serious man deemed wise around part of UK creates false god | GRAVENIMAGE |
| Soldiers trapped in mountain maybe -- a dangerous situation | MORASS |
| Trading pioneer on offshore island, one hitting his targets? | MARKSMAN |
| Vehicle with a king (merry one) making half-turn | CARACOLE |
| Wheedling little woman Heather pursues retreating Bill | CAJOLING |
The Telegraph - Cryptic - January 31 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers
| Clues | Answers |
| Argument against team allowance is a factor | CONSIDERATION |
| Call during session for release | BRINGOUT |
| Catches on small branches | TWIGS |
| Claim Amsterdam must welcome religious leaders | IMAMS |
| Departing loveless, poor actor finds material | GINGHAM |
| Engineers study module, getting help that's available | RECOURSE |
| Enter opening to grab right price normally | GOINGRATE |
| Extent of wind across Germany | BREADTH |
| Forces of peace with courage are disconcerting | UNNERVE |
| Gave up hope, seeing second couple in action | DESPAIRED |
| Giving help around new store, one's a shooting star | ASTEROID |
| Landmass and sea air swirling, full of uranium | EURASIA |
| Leave affected by case of dengue | DECAMP |
| Make a mistake with little job | ERRAND |
| Manoeuvred wagons to secure opposite directions in last hurrah | SWANSONG |
| Millions suffer with religious community making such a purchase | MAILORDER |
| Model firm's source of material for programme | SITCOM |
| Offspring in charge of such a boom? | SONIC |
| Plies drunk working for Greek character | EPSILON |
| Police clear chap's bin in error | SPECIALBRANCH |
| Pressure skilled worker, being biased | PARTISAN |
| Reparation, note, meant changes | ATONEMENT |
| Rumour of butcher's transport | SLEIGH |
| Stick around, love, there's water transport | CANOE |
| Stop others following a river | ARREST |
| Sweeteners offered by South American taking kid back | SUGARS |
| Watered and fed at last after the yard gets tidied | HYDRATED |
| Zinc is organic in part, providing bit of a bite | INCISOR |
The Telegraph - Quick - January 31 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers
The Telegraph - Quick Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Jan 31 2018
| Clues | Answers |
| A lookout | SENTRY |
| A ruminant | SHEEP |
| Able to see | SIGHTED |
| Bitterness | RANCOUR |
| Breakfast food | EGG |
| Candid | FRANK |
| Chivalrous | GALLANT |
| Choosing | ELECTING |
| Commerce | TRADE |
| Compare | LIKEN |
| Contributed | BROUGHT |
| Departed | LEFT |
| Equality | PARITY |
| Eraser | RUBBER |
| Fight against | RESIST |
| French copper | GENDARME |
| Fringe | EDGE |
| Humour; spoil | INDULGE |
| Natter | CHAT |
| Natter | GAB |
| Of flowers | FLORAL |
| Period, era | EPOCH |
| Potter's oven | KILN |
| Respond | REACT |
| Shop | STORE |
| Slump | SINK |
| Softly | GENTLY |
| Stings | BITES |
| Stupefy | STUN |
| Understand | REALISE |
The Times - Concise - February 1 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers
The Times - Concise - Times Concise No 7564 |
|
Clues |
Answers |
| Attract, entice | TEMPT |
| Boisterously macho | LADDISH |
| Brought down | TOPPLED |
| County near London | SURREY |
| Destructive wind | TORNADO |
| Edible bulb | ONION |
| German city | LEIPZIG |
| Heresy | HETERODOXY |
| In the open air | al fresco |
| Interfered | MEDDLED |
| Laboratory glassware | test tube |
| Large and lively party | SHINDIG |
| Large sea | OCEAN |
| Last golf hole number | EIGHTEEN |
| Paper size | QUARTO |
| Partial darkness | SHADOW |
| Quick to understand | CLEVER |
| Racing stadium | SPEEDWAY |
| Restrained in one's appetites | ABSTEMIOUS |
| Search widely for food | FORAGE |
| Strenuous activity | EXERTION |
| Sunken barrier | HA-HA |
| Take on loan | BORROW |
| Tidings | NEWS |
| Very skilled artist | VIRTUOSO |
| Vistas; opinions | VIEWS |
The Times - Cryptic - February 1 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers
The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26950 |
|
Clues |
Answers |
| A small amount of tin securing knight’s chain | APENNINES |
| Artistic Italian waterway and Latin quarter of Sorrento | CANALETTO |
| Backed commercial corporation in fact | DATUM |
| Bird hit high in the air by large vessel | SKYLARK |
| Brand awareness to convey coherent message | make sense |
| Broadcast a child-friendly Q&A about tanks | AQUARIA |
| Busted a suspect with hand on drug? Could be this | open-and-shut case |
| Cast? That’s supporting cast | SLING |
| Climbing high mountain surrounded by prairie | PLAIN |
| Connoisseur seizing fashionable gnome | FINANCIER |
| Cool, informed female designer making comeback | SANGFROID |
| Craft fine cryptic clue, more or less | FELUCCA |
| Cut down on binding agent? | GLUON |
| Esoteric worship suppressing New England possession | OWNERSHIP |
| Ghastly covers of Lou Reed, including a single | LURID |
| Harry Basset, perhaps | HOUND |
| He arranged some rags and boots with ends missing | ELLINGTON |
| Head off lame evildoer’s first trespass | IMPINGE |
| Invited to accept golf club’s proof of membership? | BADGE |
| Marshal Pétain trapping peacekeepers before noon with sea power? | NEPTUNIAN |
| One unlikely to win a race with dimwitted trainer | SLOWCOACH |
| Pacific nation’s gold in new version of rugby | NAURU |
| Primrose’s cousin is over 40 and flipping sanctimonious | OXLIP |
| Some terrific screenwriters around in this genre | sci-fi |
| Stumbling briefly, hooking drive, making bogey | HOBGOBLIN |
| US storyteller Remus, perhaps, penning author’s introduction | TWAIN |
| Vile edict is farcical to wit | VIDELICET |
| Witches on short mission to seal husband in cooking pot | dutch oven |
| Worried about group of farmers splitting up communal resource in quantity | DESSERTSPOONFUL |
| You dated visiting lecturer, a Senior Fellow | DOYEN |
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 1018 |
|
Clues |
Answers |
| Abandon fight | SCRAP |
| Actress Jean in Essex town | HARLOW |
| Article in large house that adds taste | VANILLA |
| Compelling work, foremost of paintings by mature English artist | page-turner |
| Critic of satirical show heard by Queen | REVIEWER |
| Exchange views about one pine, perhaps | CONIFER |
| Finished by attack exposing rook | OVERCHARGE |
| Guarantee cry of pain after volts applied | VOUCH |
| Half-naked celebrity | STAR |
| Hips — a lot replaced here? | HOSPITAL |
| Just on left, close to lay-by | ONLY |
| Lack of soil on ground, ultimately | DEARTH |
| Large number, hundred, abandoning vessel | RAFT |
| Male whale? Nonsense | BULL |
| Mimic a bishop on board vessel | PARROT |
| Nail polish back in style, man explains | ENAMEL |
| Provide witty remark after end of satire | EQUIP |
| Relax wearing friend's fur | CHINCHILLA |
| Seals experience narrow escape | close shave |
| Shy going to bed | RETIRING |
| Simple dwellings (play on words) | HOMESPUN |
| Some clever dick composer | VERDI |
| Tries an exotic wine | RETSINA |
| Way to go about home system | ROUTINE |
The Guardian - Cryptic - February 1 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers
| Clues | Answers |
| A curate is naughty? We understand the risks | ACTUARIES |
| Acquaintance gets sealed deal? Not right | CONTACT |
| After travelling, you finally stayed for 24 hours | TUESDAY |
| Alexander the Great's regent rebelling against father? | ANTIPATER |
| Collecting financial documents, work steadily and devotedly | PIOUSLY |
| Crime, but not of one type of criminal | FENCE |
| Escape from land after start of fighting | FLIGHT |
| Exercise in part of south-east England being reported | WIELD |
| Extra money request when in need of a drink | TIPPLE |
| Former type of exam: English composition | PASTORALE |
| French brother endlessly drinking coffee is 11 | FLATTERER |
| Get your butts on the ground! | ORDERARMS |
| In Parisian avenue, fellow would briefly dance | ALLEMANDE |
| Indication of freezing time | TEMPO |
| Kind of senior officer leading army corps | GENRE |
| Like a rogue child invading a railway | ARCHLY |
| Like some fabric in bed, fashionable | COTTONY |
| Little dog eats poet's works and causes trouble | PLAYSUP |
| Maoris hang around New Zealand writer | NGAIO |
| Meal with nasty smell, the thing to send back | TIFFIN |
| Mess about with difficult puzzle, not beginning | TINKER |
| Move furtively and quietly behind cowboy's enemy? | CREEP |
| One may shed some light, destroying secrets | CRESSET |
| Remuneration restricts staff — it's a travesty | PARODY |
| Rev in moving circle? | CLERIC |
| See 5 | MARSH |
| Something metallic covering behind or something 18 covering much more? | CAFTAN |
| Strikes briefly undermining firm making money | COPECKS |
| Subsequently stifles one pet's noise, solution being found | LIMEWATER |
| Suit constrains part of belly | PINSTRIPE |
| What colonist will do, having captured a foreign city | SEATTLE |
| Where some Brummies find home in Glastonbury | ASTON |
The Guardian - Quick - February 1 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers
Clues |
Answers |
| Adam's first wife? — Frasier Crane's second ex-wife | LILITH |
| Adhesive | GLUE |
| Ask forgiveness | APOLOGISE |
| Capital of Western Australia | PERTH |
| Centres | HEARTS |
| Coffee — programming language | JAVA |
| Cowboy of the pampas | GAUCHO |
| Dam-building rodent | BEAVER |
| Downtrodden | OPPRESSED |
| Dwindle away to nothing | PETER |
| Earnest request | PRAYER |
| Entrance hall — foyer | VESTIBULE |
| Fruit | PEAR |
| Gondolier's song | BARCAROLE |
| Grey or white wading bird | HERON |
| Hard durable timber | TEAK |
| Interesting phenomenon — show | SPECTACLE |
| Involving bloodshed | GORY |
| Made extremely sad | DESOLATED |
| Make merry | CELEBRATE |
| Mountain ash | ROWAN |
| Open to argument | DEBATABLE |
| Organs of sight | EYES |
| Part of a shoe | SOLE |
| Shed tears | WEEP |
| Small hairpiece to cover bald patch | TOUPEE |
| Small ornamental case worn on a chain | LOCKET |
| Small pointed beard | GOATEE |
Irish Times (Simplex) - February 1 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers
| Clues | Answers |
| A Korean martial art | TAEKWONDO |
| Assignations, romantic meetings | TRYSTS |
| Burden with an unwanted task | LUMBER |
| Ceremonial globe carried by a monarch | ORB |
| Concur | AGREE |
| Cut and prepared wood | TIMBER |
| Decay, decompose | ROT |
| Exclusively, only | SOLELY |
| Fat from milk | BUTTER |
| Gain knowledge or skills | LEARN |
| Give permission | ALLOW |
| Give rise to | CAUSE |
| Hand over to authorities of another country | EXTRADITE |
| Health resort | SPA |
| Illuminated | LIT |
| Large hawk of coasts and wetlands | SEAEAGLE |
| Lissome, supple | LITHE |
| Little rock | PEBBLE |
| More profound | DEEPER |
| Of significance or value | IMPORTANT |
| One exercises dominion | RULER |
| Outdoor cooking grill | BARBECUE |
| Polar region | ARCTIC |
| Set aside, earmarked | RESERVED |
| Severe snowstorm | BLIZZARD |
| Shape that's broader than long | OBLONG |
| Smallest, slightest | LEAST |
| Striped African equine | ZEBRA |
| Swears about the tropical marine fish with strong teeth | WRASSE |
| The condition of being protected from danger | SAFETY |
| The legendary sword of King Arthur | EXCALIBUR |
| They break in to steal | BURGLARS |
| They fly from fire | SPARKS |
| Unit of spoken language | SYLLABLE |
| Uproar, commotions | RUCTIONS |
| Well-known or easily recognised | FAMILIAR |
Irish Times (Crosaire) - February 1 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers
| Clues | Answers |
| A measure of The Paper for 21 across and Cork | FOOLSCAP |
| As I see it, this is where all the autobiographical details can be read | INMYBOOK |
| Biography by snaky type on time saving others overseas | LIFEBOAT |
| Charlie read report by old canon | CREDO |
| Comes down to Cork from far side of Clare for earthmover | LANDSLIDE |
| Deceived half of those in 4 across running the paper | FOOLED |
| Delegation dine out in Italian ice cream parlour | GELATO |
| Draw attention to circle observed by detective with unfinished business | LOOSEENDS |
| Flighty type of market optimist meets end in Paris church | BULLFINCH |
| Frank, Henry and Oscar from the tree house | HONEST |
| Funny actor admits reading piece of the plot | CARROT |
| Home Rule for one of those in The Liberties? | INDEPENDENCE |
| Into the bargain, lost dole at job centre? That's some parting shot! | TOODLEOO |
| It's nothing to do with loud inaccurate source naturally | OFCOURSE |
| King sells oil to Korean leader in small foreign capital | KOPECK |
| Lay low after college booze-up off the head - the man upstairs will certainly hear about it from someone else | INTERCESSION |
| Leaderless region welcomes Middle Eastern revolutionary in very poor condition | TATTERED |
| Looking for a bucket of steam is key to 21 across - and that's the message (1,4'1,6) | AFOOLSERRAND |
| On the surface, it's for the St Patrick's Day Parade | AFLOAT |
| Party admits most of the aid is for tidying up the books | SHELF |
| Peter's treatment is arranged in advance | PRESET |
| Plays around with footballers dropping Albert | FOOLS |
| Provides guidance for flighty types in part of the book covering one Biblical figure | PILOTAGE |
| Reason for not reporting old party in that place with musical three-piece sounds similar | OFFTHERECORD |
| Run for union deep inside stainless steel operation | ELOPE |
| The foreign investigation in Vogue | LATEST |
| Well-trained cook to dine around most of the plot | OBEDIENT |
| Work with actors or company behind popular sort from Phone Booth | DIRECTORY |