The Guardian – Quick crossword No 16,657 – Sep 25 2023 Clues Answers Arctic POLAR Bearing NORTH Cut — meat CHOP Dessert AFTERS Druggie USER Essential qualities NATURES Food delivery service MEALSONWHEELS Geniality BONHOMIE Hole in the wall CASHDISPENSER Immeasurably small ATOMIC Ladder RUN Limits BOUNDS Clues Answers Line showing high water level TIDEMARK Look…

Clues Answers Expectorate SPIT F1 competitor? RACINGDRIVER Fly off the handle LOSEIT Foot’s arch INSTEP Formal and authoritative proclamation EDICT Fourth-longest river in Africa, which flows into the Indian Ocean ZAMBEZI From Beirut? LEBANESE Grieved for LAMENTED In arrears BEHIND Irish political party SINNFEIN Long arm of the eastern Mediterranean ADRIATIC Male parent (informal) PAPA…

Clues Answers A French secondary school – or a theatre in London or Edinburgh? LYCEUM Annie __, singer whose hits include Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) LENNOX Body of water between Cape Town and Bloubergstrand TABLEBAY Channel 4 reality show set in London SW3 MADEIN Collective name for a group of working-class suburbs south…

Clues Answers One, two, three and four back in house VILLA Animal impression SEAL Animal they see, Noah seeing every second HYENA Author, I applaud your observation when 5? WELLS Careless line failing to impress good man NEGLIGENT Club’s last, equally true voice BASSO Cut costs, bound to save money, initially SKIMP Dogs, say, misleading guards ISLE…

Clues Answers A royal house WINDSOR Administered corporal punishment CANED Affair LIAISON African country __ ruin dub (anag) BURUNDI Bottomless chasm ABYSS Buffet-style meal SMORGASBORD Buried container for future discovery TIMECAPSULE Cheers THANKS Dislike intensely ABHOR Excitable NERVY Exploded BURST Explore __ scout (informal) RECCE German playwright, author of Mother Courage and Her Children, d.…

New York Times – Sep 21 2023 Clues Answers ‘It’s a ___’ SIGN ‘The $10,000 Pyramid’ host DICKCL ‘This again?!’ UGH ‘___, verily’ YEA Animals on Nebraska’s state quarter OXEN Be overly sweet CLOY Capital of Washington? ONES Center cut? MOH Childish Gambino’s record label RCA Classic N.Y.C. cinema name ROXY Competitive poker? EPEE Conceal,…

Clues Answers Introduction to Pointless, with tips from Alexander Armstrong, maybe identifying idiom PARLANCE A brilliant discovery! Brussels are amazingly full of potassium EUREKA Admit in court, taking drug occasionally INDUCT American __ nearly 21, say __ ultimately still lacking principles AMORAL Ancient vampire bats left PRIMEVAL Bed and breakfast’s closing after business COT Beg group…

Clues Answers A long overnight flight REDEYE Annul CANCEL Cafe TEASHOP Car running on petrol and electricity, say HYBRID Chic STYLE Crestfallen DISMAYED Early deliverer of the news PAPERBOY Forge SMITHY Hebrew prophet of the Old Testament, who was taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire ELIJAH Ill-defined UNCLEAR Is art (anag) STAIR…

Universal – Sep 20 2023 Clues Answers “Can you keep a ___?” SECRET “Sweet!” COOL “Yeah, sure …” IBET “___ la vie!” CEST “___ the Great” NATE “___ up!” (“Dig in!”) EAT 3rd of February? BEE Apple desktop IMAC Article of clothing whose name indicates how to secure it TIE Attend, as an event GOTO…

Clues Answers Accomplished lines about a comprehensive OVERALL America’s holding of heaven-bound heavenly objects UFOS Anniversary bash outside eastern entrance out of control TERCENTENARY Brother gets over Dutch scam FRAUD Career that’s stimulating SPEED Choked elongated fish perished GARROTTED Detailed description of small muscle SPEC Drink that in Spanish means ‘island’ MARTINIQUE Drumming sound coming…