Search Results for: missing the first second is second rate

1-across – Makes special parts from spare plastic? : ANAGRAMS

6-across – Benefactor flawlessly working to protect Republican : PATRON

9-across – Entitled hoo-ha about traditional grub : TOADINTHEHOLE

10-across – Current prejudices dismissing first hint of affection for bin chickens? : IBISES

11-across – Everything is in place for learning very old language : UNIVERSE

13-across – Back,bottom,and top of a diamond? : SECONDBASE

15-across – Watch episodes pretty vacuously : ESPY

16-across – Each phone download carries over : APOP

18-across – Improper form of online chat : NONETHICAL

21-across – Idiot comedian Seth is a gas! : NITROGEN

22-across – More wary about guide regularly deserting halfway through : CAGIER

23-across – Immediate tension as a nut runs wild : INSTANTANEOUS

25-across – Uncovered fuels catch fire : IGNITE

26-across – Colour quality of tattoos on chap’s back and head : PINKNESS

2-down – Incompetent A-lister? : NOTABLE

3-down – Green jumper made from recycled rags by customer : GRASSHOPPER

4-down – House is different when the front is removed : ARIES

5-down – Fruit positioned alongside poison shrub,mostly : SATSUMA

6-down – Power goes to the head of local club chairperson : PRESIDENT

7-down – <span>Couple of leading pieces from this week’s </span><i>Observer</i> : TWO

8-down – Old writer given drink finally starts talking : OPENSUP

12-down – Formal clothing good to have after ironing : EVENINGGOWN

14-down – Disparage one framework supporting study : DENIGRATE

17-down – Pressure now on doubles partners,perhaps : PAIRING

19-down – In town,is ignoring every odd character best? Always! : NONSTOP

20-down – They don’t like people getting on : AGEISTS

22-down – Works partly shown on a carousel going round : CANON

24-down – Go on an icy run and nearly lose traction : SKI

9-across – Obscene 54-letter words? First erased in book : LOATHSOME

10-across – Loom that our weaver expertly repaired,initially : TOWER

11-across – Source of herb,green it’s said,essential … : BASIC

12-across – … similarly a __,loosely speaking,source of fruit : LEMONTREE

13-across – Leg bitten right off,figure having been knocked out – partner in theatre : GILBERT

14-across – Notice man after seance regularly appearing : SACKING

17-across – Speed of backpedalling workforce? : TEMPO

19-across – Go,baby! : WEE

20-across – Thing after swerving hit bar : NIGHT

21-across – Act of touching a bottom a scandal,ultimately : ABUTTAL

22-across – For whom sea trip proves villainous? : PIRATES

24-across – Colt’s foal? Bad lot : SONOFAGUN

26-across – Hens,say,female birds : FOWLS

28-across – Type of light you left aloft originally,dangly thing : UVULA

29-across – Ticker no good in goblin on the underground? : METRONOME

1-down – See 20 Across : CLUB

2-down – Servant,fool in throne room upstanding : VASSAL

3-down – Ounce with thick liquid – bottle it : CHICKENOUT

4-down – Relax with books in pigeon English? : COOLIT

5-down – English newspaper snubbing yours truly in general – hmm : LETMESEE

6-down – Mauling legal,team won college match : ETON

7-down – Thick member stymied by electoral change : SWARMING

8-down – Authentic peace agreement missing initial of Caesar : TRUE

13-down – Try time and time again,a must : GOTTA

15-down – System controlling passage of vehicles,wind up and down after chicane : CONTRAFLOW

16-down – More than one opening for a billionaire? : GATES

18-down – Sad,second load of ashes? : MOURNFUL

19-down – See 6 : WALLGAME

22-down – Needle expected then in wooded areas : PINETA

23-down – Bit of a hoot,partner onto it,we hear? : TUWHOO

24-down – Gut fish,did you say? : SOUL

25-down – Pound in sterling for corporation? : FLAB

27-down – A little nose,encrusted,picked out : SEEN

1-across – Quiet power across border seen in diminutive figure : SHRIMP

4-across – Surreptitious deliveries in stretch of road : FLYOVER

9-across – Soldiers make organised moves to suppress one new regulation : ORDINANCE

10-across – Copper and different element brought back for court : CURIA

11-across – Entrances a court case short of conclusion : ATRIA

12-across – Variation of stigma seen in Dominican belief : DOGMATISM

13-across – Crazy way to go wrong in employment : HAYWIRE

15-across – Article is about singular position : THESIS

17-across – Large vehicle storage – expression of annoyance with area reduced by 50% : HANGAR

19-across – Intense rage about spillage of oil : VIOLENT

22-across – Style of Indian cooking increasingly seen in US city : BALTIMORE

24-across – Be keen on Sally after forgetting Thursday : GOFOR

26-across – Nolan film, complex mesh reversing at midpoint? : TENET

27-across – A rule at sea about swimming tuna not covered in Marseilles? : AUNATUREL

28-across – Pass round and round after I’d returned : DISHOUT

29-across – Key harbour rejecting first convoy : ESCORT

1-down – Bear source of sound to specialist in sound? : STOMACH

2-down – Indication to stop taxmen overturning amendment to contract : RIDER

3-down – Ferocious Scotsman’s one engaged in copulation : MANEATING

4-down – Odd-looking person carrying drug goods on board : FREIGHT

5-down – Why you texted about sequestering carbon in exotic plant : YUCCA

6-down – Animal poison, absolutely not unknown, Medici misused : VERMICIDE

7-down – Monarchs’ responsibilities regarding charity : REALMS

8-down – Apprehensive magistrate overlooking nothing after lunchtime? : ONEDGE

14-down – What may be used to race grey snail possibly : YEARLINGS

16-down – Makes more extensive alternative to Bill Musk? : ELONGATES

18-down – Measure for crowd control – delicate approach in Brazilian city : RIOTACT

19-down – European city: Volume One’s encouragement to go initially ignored : VIENNA

20-down – Item served in café? Sharp service to be repeated : TARTLET

21-down – Reduced rate accepted by a newspaperman : ABATED

23-down – I note apprentice dismissing second basic guide? : INTRO

25-down – Passable attempt to exclude independent Coen brothers’ film : FARGO

1-across – It requires a truly consistent performance from its cast : DOCUDRAMA

6-across – Finish filming western with pop music : WRAP

8-across – Book about our deceptive barrier causes fuss : BROUHAHA

9-across – From casual perusal, telescope finally picked out a star : PULSAR

10-across – Food chain: bear comes first, though not invariably top : BRUNCH

11-across – Oil perhaps to be seen from ocean liner? : SEASCAPE

12-across – Dramatic family union abandoned? Here’s a pill! : CAPLET

15-across – When depressed, you could find it helps to get over the threshold : DOORBELL

16-across – Hairgrip made of copper with reverse catch : BOBBYPIN

19-across – Head driller and surrogate parent : TREPAN

21-across – Iced preparation used in horse health scheme : MEDICARE

22-across – Hardline leader breaks up rubbish party : THRASH

24-across – Life of a celebrity that’s been shot : BIOPIC

25-across – After a number of deliveries, he collects ball for Oxford defender? : OVERSHOE

26-across – Horn sound in live recording : BEEP

27-across – Suspect ranted about Brown being dismissed? : REDUNDANT

1-down – Renaissance artist’s Doctor Swallowing Midge : DURER

2-down – Scrapped lunch to take north-eastern link to the continent : CHUNNEL

3-down – The end of the said potty is missing : DEATH

4-down – Same sad converts got together : AMASSED

5-down – A programmer’s A-Z? : ALPHASORT

6-down – Young predator put away — copper goes by book : WOLFCUB

7-down – Putting a lid on piano, celebrated vocalist demonstrates one way to sing : ACAPPELLA

13-down – Formerly, formerly : AFORETIME

14-down – Entertainer Chuck plus reindeer : TAPDANCER

17-down – Music culture movement responsible for bad trip during dance : BRITPOP

18-down – Avoid ‘en’ shaped like a birthmark : NAEVOID

20-down – Are in conflict with USA over one geographical area : EURASIA

22-down – In effect, we ensure bard’s in the middle : TWEEN

23-down – Seconds before bird’s sudden dash : SCOOT

1-across – Keener criminal further up the scale : SHARPER

5-across – Flower in front of garden recalled fairy rings : KINGCUP

9-across – Suffer side-effects from touching performance : REACT

10-across – Get together and manage to admit nothing to judge : COOPERATE

11-across – Come round with boring requests for regional holidays : WAKESWEEKS

12-across – Those beginning to scheme against reigning monarch : TSAR

14-across – Broadcast Queens’ vital matches : EQUIVALENTS

18-across – Essex town providing staff for plane, maybe : MANNINGTREE

21-across – Test confidence without restraining me : ORAL

22-across – Taxonomist in mid-life gets posher housing : CLASSIFIER

25-across – Limpet and rocks firmly fixed : IMPLANTED

26-across – Return of one pound two shillings for ecstasy : BLISS

27-across – Absolute value is recurrent problem, with board game involved : MODULUS

28-across – Eg Romeo dismissing Juliet’s second film sequence : MONTAGE

1-down – Clutch them when all looks lost, but avoid the short one! : STRAWS

2-down – State question, enclosing note with answer : ALASKA

3-down – Confectioner’s pastries ruined diet, essentially : PATISSERIE

4-down – Investigate cardinal in Roman Catholic church : RECCE

5-down – Batsman’s innings ended — accidentally fell : KNOCKOVER

6-down – Be obliged to work with hands when caught : NEED

7-down – Ditties of French boys after one quits series : CHANSONS

8-down – Cuts ripe bananas for dessert topping : PIECRUST

13-down – Bubblier fans running for top prize : BLUERIBBON

15-down – Bogeyman in book heading off to trap tardy deer, perhaps : UNGULATES

16-down – Euro MP worried about current mass market : EMPORIUM

17-down – Yet to participate in test without cover : UNCAPPED

19-down – Mineral found in first two of six limestone caves : SILICA

20-down – Oblique tip of elaborate stick for game : CROSSE

23-down – Clearing large borders, exposed umbelliferous plant : SEDUM

24-down – Ultimately search each large building : HALL

9-across – Lie initially told every second by party supporter : TALLSTORY

10-across – Lie told for whom in France? : PORKY

11-across – Witch hunt based on lie under oath: say that’s not right : PURGE

12-across – How to counter lies online in a climate when facts are deemed unimportant : POSTTRUTH

13-across – Where you might fabricate truth, or the end of reality : FACTORY

14-across – Corrupt imprisoned politician expelled, losing nothing, is one in the know : INSIDER

17-across – Positioned with prejudice … Boatman is excluded : BASED

19-across – Gathering for church service with uncrowned head of state : MAS

20-across – Replace sound of funky drum­beat with a master track’s first cut : REDUB

21-across – Stars from the French movie finally to confront awful lies : ETOILES

22-across – Attitudes fixed in time, oddly in dissent : MINDSET

24-across – Boatman, shouldering hod etc, I rebuilt shared house : COHABITED

26-across – Leader of Parliament adopts untruths and fancy footwork : PLIES

28-across – Bullish attitude to truth: you are allegedly excluded : CANDO

29-across – Club act has change of heart: he’s involved in scam : TRUNCHEON

1-down – Blow a high note: put in valve : STOP

2-down – Cycle rickshaw carrying dean, say : CLERIC

3-down – As one seen circling a star is con­demned as idolater : ASTEROIDAL

4-down – Firm without any deceit to speak of generates yield : COMPLY

5-down – Old clothing for young goyim, regularly seen on the cricket field : GYMSLIPS

6-down – Pants on fire, missing point of argument : SPAT

7-down – Underdog, abused but connected to reality : GROUNDED

8-down – Something read in Deuteronomy? This is not true : MYTH

13-down – Lie about moral strength : FIBRE

15-down – Quail flock found in tight plastic binding : SHRINKPACK

16-down – Give the lie to root in U-turn : REBUT

18-down – Freeing from fear of old truth in government : SOOTHING

19-down – Falsify view of security service on country : MISSTATE

22-down – Fabricated clue for a cheese : MADEUP

23-down – Despicable types of false witness wasting time : SWINES

24-down – See 1 : COCK

25-down – Either way, it’s a mistake : BOOB

27-down – See 19 across : SING

1-across – Spitfire’s first fliers circling old planes : SMOOTHS

5-across – Illegal recording of John, mostly bent over in toilet : BOOTLEG

9-across – Flipping once more given food delay : DEFER

10-across – Drunk a lot in Love Me Tender : EMOTIONAL

11-across – Insists on giving vital supplies in church — payment invested in crosses : FORCEFEEDS

12-across – Headed over to indep­endent store : DELI

14-across – Scheduling in Graceland tours : CALENDARING

18-across – Broke vow: recorded and jammed : OVERCROWDED

21-across – Bass: turn way down : BUST

22-across – Concerned with soldier, intellectual, from a group of soldiers : REGIMENTAL

25-across – Set characteristic cryptic clue; initially missing Nina : LUMINANCE

26-across – Go off, that’s all right : SOUND

27-across – Those screaming as Presley gyrates : YELPERS

28-across – One thinks about lives one harms : MISUSER

1-down – Provided lift? No chance! : SODOFF

2-down – Kind of blue shoe : OXFORD

3-down – One struts around in terrible film? Rubbish : TURKEYCOCK

4-down – Material did rock for the audience : SUEDE

5-down – Carving top of dry bread, one getting spread out : BROADENED

6-down – After passing, notice cycle right away : OBIT

7-down – Hang on! That is pants : LINGERIE

8-down – Row over golf: good golfer admits they don’t have balls : GELDINGS

13-down – Jailhouse workers struggle with habit : WARDRESSES

15-down – Unfinished business in toilet — how Elvis begins to die in smalls : LOOSEENDS

16-down – Drug ring — Yankee showing sign of over­indulgence : POTBELLY

17-down – Worst hit: is second record turned over? : PESSIMAL

19-down – Plays with bodyguards protecting president : STRUMS

20-down – One moving smoothly back to Vegas appearing on top show : SLIDER

23-down – One left European Union — member which might help form motion? : ILEUM

24-down – King originally called for a bit of leg : KNEE