Search Results for: missing the first second is second rate

1-across – Poultice collected, we hear, for each nursing terminal : MUSTARDPLASTER

9-across – Tablet used by Lloyd’s underwriter with false teeth : NAMEPLATE

10-across – Quality instrument used by dramatist : AMATI

11-across – See 17 : BROWN

12-across – Smashing results a long time after opening shot : BREAKAGES

13-across – Plot and background of Arsenic and Old Lace? : SCENARIO

14-across – Time for hands to meet team with one extra? : TWELVE

17-across – Sleuth’s report on result of parental exposure in Sun? : FATHER

19-across – Predator follows beaten track, missing a huge amount : TRILLION

22-across – Key worker on main motorway turning left : IMPORTANT

24-across – Playwright’s first annual award : OSCAR

25-across – Corners everyone’s against? : NOOKS

26-across – Speaker’s prevailed after a king’s brought to court : ARRAIGNED

27-across – 24’s character from army 5 crudely round bend : LADYWINDERMERE

1-down – Boxer possibly top advocate for offshore tax haven? : MANSBESTFRIEND

2-down – VIP setter’s filling in a second puzzle, finally : SOMEONE

3-down – Postscript saying Poland’s premier writer should be included : APPENDAGE

4-down – Liqueur I found in Bermuda all over the place : DRAMBUIE

5-down – Smirked before getting taken outside : LEERED

6-down – Trace source of 8 : SPARK

7-down – Welshman raised on gospel : EVANGEL

8-down – Mine’s a dire job in conflict with head of school : MISSJEANBRODIE

15-down – Slimmer with more guile eats little : WILLOWIER

16-down – Old banger’s bloodstained, bearing signs of impact : CRATERED

18-down – Tucking into endless snacks, I only came originally for pudding : TAPIOCA

20-down – Anger — a feature of high church ritual : INCENSE

21-down – A fellow dons long garment for long journey : SAFARI

23-down – Gay going topless with doubtful outcome : RISKY

9-across – Theatre turns hard to endure? Don’t give up : PERSEVERE

10-across – I recall nude playing 15 : CLAIR

11-across – Directs different ending to film : CREDITS

12-across – Citizen especially honoured following return of title by monarch : FREEMAN

13-across – Bet widow’s missing do : WAGER

14-across – Rugby player on tour, drunk when about to start boarding plane : TURBOPROP

16-across – Doctor has gin — not a lot — after second 15 : MOONLIGHTSONATA

19-across – Lumpy custard finally eaten by one adult’s revolting : NODULATED

21-across – Breeding of a little dog : DINGO

22-across – Parking topless large figure in extra seat : PILLION

23-across – US army nearly stunned first-rate swordsman : SAMURAI

24-across – 22 down of 15, say, providing boy with tonic : RONDO

25-across – Curved neural pathway in cord in bottom bit of cortex : REFLEXARC

1-down – Room with sign portraying astronauts : SPACEWOMEN

2-down – George almost paid out a penny less for small 22 down of 15? : ARPEGGIO

3-down – Those with head branches spread around six counties? I’d say not : DENIER

4-down – Film about unknown 15s : KEYS

5-down – Like some stamps fellow in post office valued without hesitation : PERFORATED

6-down – Religious picture explosive turned up in city lake : ECCEHOMO

7-down – 15’s beat : HAMMER

8-down – Relative has half of 15 daughter lost : GRAN

14-down – You’ll see her setting off to find things to help provide closure : TIGHTENERS

15-down – Something scored by Ian, perhaps? : PIANOPIECE

17-down – Sticky sweet bound to have one 23 down centre? Not exactly : LOLLIPOP

18-down – Sailor girl’s beginning to look strange : ABNORMAL

20-down – See 10 : DELUNE

21-down – Agent crazy about 15 : DAMPER

22-down – Catch up with second half of 15 : PART

23-down – Drunkard hugs female giving first half of 15 : SOFT

7-across – Gainsay headmaster reorganising schools : GYMNASIA

9-across – It’s difficult to get model aroused : THORNY

10-across – End of Guinness barrel, or of cigarette : STUB

11-across – Washing over – consequently gain forgiveness : ABSOLUTION

12-across – Rig out for soiree of sorrow : GRIEVE

14-across – Solemn air of old king rolling species of cannabis : GRAVITAS

15-across – Farewell to artist returning to the mountain : ARARAT

17-across – Dined, consuming barrel of pitch properly : ATTUNE

20-across – China has many an ornamental garden : CROCKERY

22-across – A case of silence stifling passion : SHEATH

23-across – Soda-server is absorbing Mahler’s First and Tchaikovsky’s : SYMPHONIST

24-across – Animal utterance involving trunk? : BARK

25-across – Demonstrative about alien goddess : THETIS

26-across – Overcome by exhaustion, so debated a treatment : DEADBEAT

1-down – Suffering this year from psychiatric disorder : HYSTERIA

2-down – Some think no better bit of butter can be found : KNOB

3-down – With a will unopened, what’s left in it? : ESTATE

4-down – Reliable tool hoisted in the beginning : STALWART

5-down – Do your bit, being sorry about second-rate turn : CONTRIBUTE

6-down – An ape’s ill, missing a rabbit : ANGORA

8-down – Post in the form of an omen : ASSIGN

13-down – Free terrorists snap title up : EMANCIPATE

16-down – What’s got into a parasite at the pub? : ALEHOUSE

18-down – Immortal carrying Cross inside and outside : EXTERNAL

19-down – Helpless dairymaid raised a great many : MYRIAD

21-down – Initially rock hard, yet the Hammersmith Mauler gets beat : RHYTHM

22-down – Belt encircling a tyrant : SATRAP

24-down – Live without a seaman’s doll : BABE

9-across – Araucaria’s other name – Cinephile, distributed elsewhere : CHILEPINE

10-across – Fidelio’s 17 – one concocted left inside as a criminal : FELON

11-across – Something Rover perpetrated – all at sea? : ROBBERY

12-across – Rules out going Dutch in this case : LAWSUIT

13-across – Patience needed to find alternative for one of Bunthorne’s : BRIDE

14-across – Person summoned – one to enter solution of eg Hendra’s missing Down : GARNISHEE

16-across – This expression of appreciation has been given the nod : ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

19-across – The two-facedness of Janus? : DUPLICITY

21-across – Taupi’s 17 and two thirds of Mercury generate some heat : THERM

22-across – Does Rufus sometimes substitute his second definition? : WILLIAM

23-across – Juggled with letters, cluing this fish : STERLET

24-across – Recalled shorter answer, stuck with leading pair from Audreus, in the bath! : SAUNA

25-across – One vital point put over about Don Pasquale’s last pain-killer? : IBUPROFEN

1-down – Angry about Chifonie’s 17? Then get on, seeing state of play : SCOREBOARD

2-down – Publish second-rate load of corn? It may obviate stuffiness! : AIRBRICK

3-down – Have great respect for Paul, perhaps : REVERE

4-down – Cunning 1 and 17 of Logodaedalus – why disheartened about those? : WILY

5-down – Rocking cradle during delay, lacking a way to be assertive : DECLAREDLY

6-down – Orlando’s latest? Fine – whack in few varied with hint of colour : OFFWHITE

7-down – Source of despondency, nowhere near completing Shed : SLOUGH

8-down – The 17 puzzle by Gordius? : KNOT

14-down – Type of verse having most of scope in French : GALLIAMBIC

15-down – Having to guess when Enigmatist gets out of order! : ESTIMATING

17-down – First description of Manchester appearing as Guardian’s leader : ORIGINAL

18-down – Sounded as if they are in agreement and went in order to look : EYESLEFT

20-down – One from Gemini? : POLLUX

21-down – Some ideas associated with Quantum? : THEORY

22-down – A little bit hazy with middle bit of Crispa and Plodge’s 17 : WISP

23-down – Tailpiece – recollect Custos, so sadly missed : SCUT