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662,640 | Bake grouse for Sunday dinner maybe (5,4) | ROAST BEEF | Sunday dinner maybe | 10a | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,641 | Let bank, by arrangement, cover (7) | BLANKET | cover | 11a | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,642 | Thoroughly examine page in former traditional learning (7) | EXPLORE | Thoroughly examine | 12a | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,643 | Bashful cat half consumed large rodent (5) | COYPU | large/rodent | 13a | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,644 | Most of book is ultimately irrelevant for backup soldier (9) | RESERVIST | backup soldier | 14a | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,645 | Running amok two lasses in wood indulge in dissipation (3,4,4,4) | SOW ONES WILD OATS | indulge/in/dissipation | 16a | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,646 | Formal meeting to lay to rest opinion (9) | INTERVIEW | Formal meeting | 19a | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,647 | Shout of support about beginnings of very unusual reproductive structure (5) | OVULE | reproductive/structure | 21a | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,648 | Arctic creature smuggled back west cheaply that’s oddly overlooked (7) | NARWHAL | Arctic creature | 23a | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,649 | Part of organ heard but not initially odd (7) | EARDRUM | Part of organ | 25a | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,650 | Coasting sadly round lake longing for good old days (9) | NOSTALGIC | longing for good old days ( | 27a | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,651 | Pea showing sign of life? (5) | PULSE | Pea/showing sign/of/life | 28a | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,652 | Score of zero, bowled with ball in high, slow arc (4) | BLOB | Score of zero | 1d | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,653 | Unfortunately, upset railway workers strike over this (6) | SALARY | Unfortunately, upset railway workers strike over this | 2d | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,654 | Warm place to keep pot simmering, not requiring immediate attention (4,6) | BACK BURNER | Warm/place/to/keep/pot/simmering | 3d | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,655 | Depression of standard in credit (6) | CRATER | Depression | 4d | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,656 | Stir wake when travelling (5,3) | WATER SKI | Stir/wake/when/travelling | 5d | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,657 | A child’s toy in highest place (4) | ATOP | highest/place | 6d | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,658 | Matador’s cape movement I watched essentially in Italian city (8) | VERONICA | Matador’s cape movement | 7d | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,659 | Behind given smack, producing sensation felt later (10) | AFTERTASTE | sensation/felt/later | 8d | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,660 | Trying to protect kinky chignon I got cut by American (10) | CUSHIONING | Trying to protect | 13d | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,661 | Informative film for those working in a theatre? (10) | RADIOGRAPH | Informative/film/for/those/working/in/a/theatre | 15d | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,662 | Insipid whiskey a primarily thirsty European regularly drains hot (8) | WATERISH | Insipid | 17d | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,663 | With son in the lead plunders what is allowed to flow over (8) | SPILLAGE | what/is/allowed/to/flow/over | 18d | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,664 | Young lass, it’s facetiously said, clutches right adjustable tool (6) | WRENCH | adjustable/tool | 20d | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,665 | A French game with half of Lyon following is turbulent (6) | UNRULY | turbulent | 22d | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,666 | Restore to good condition slope, we’re told (4) | HEAL | Restore to good condition | 24d | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,667 | Bearing of one among members of workforce (4) | MIEN | Bearing | 26d | 2022-12-20 | Toughie No 2977 | http://bigdave44.com/2022/12/20/163581/ | bigdave44 |
662,668 | Footwear on your bike, did you say? (4) | SHOE | Footwear | 8a | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,669 | Female cells in Govan neither opening nor closing (3) | OVA | Female cells | 9a | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,670 | Nobleman coming in to New York, not far off (6) | NEARLY | not far off | 10a | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,671 | Poet skint, zero pocketed (6) | BROOKE | Poet | 11a | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,672 | Figure crack in the pan fixed (8) | HEPTAGON | Figure | 12a | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,673 | The ground ain’t electrified (8,7) | DEFINITE ARTICLE | The | 13a | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,674 | Country put into trouble, so thoughtless (7) | LESOTHO | Country | 15a | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,675 | Tap out wrong letters in slightly obscure exercise (7) | MISTYPE | Tap out wrong letters | 17a | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,676 | Fast, as crowd on feet? (4,3,8) | LIKE THE CLAPPERS | Fast | 20a | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,677 | Wisest hunter hosts a presentation (8) | BESTOWAL | presentation | 23a | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,678 | Delicious eats heading for oven, very warm (6) | TOASTY | very warm | 25a | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,679 | Boy in underground network? (6) | WARREN | Boy/underground network | 26a | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,680 | Blade has sliced head from swine (3) | OAR | Blade | 27a | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,681 | Biblical garden in Gethsemane deadly, looking back (4) | EDEN | Biblical garden | 28a | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,682 | Ask for amount of electricity (6) | CHARGE | Ask for amount/electricity | 1d | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,683 | Price on grotty old sheep’s cheese (8) | PECORINA | sheep’s cheese | 2d | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,684 | Film lost in hurricane? (4,4,3,4) | GONE WITH THE WIND | Film | 3d | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,685 | Dismiss bank worker (7) | CASHIER | Dismiss/bank worker | 4d | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,686 | Astronomy in part confusing, take what help you can get! (3,4,2,1,5) | ANY PORT IN A STORM | take what help you can get | 5d | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,687 | Have a go at munching a starter of Irish sausage (6) | SALAMI | sausage | 6d | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,688 | Singer dismissing case of English composer (4) | ALTO | Singer | 7d | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,689 | Drink buddy knocked up (3) | LAP | Drink | 14d | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,690 | Priest evidently leading Israelites, initially (3) | ELI | Priest | 16d | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,691 | A part mixed with wet, running liquid (3,5) | TAP WATER | liquid | 18d | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,692 | Look inside trophy for shell (7) | SCALLOP | shell | 19d | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,693 | Whole testament I put in before (6) | ENTIRE | Whole | 21d | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,694 | Fairly sure thing! (6) | RATHER | Fairly/sure thing | 22d | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,695 | Highest note raised in test (4) | EXAM | test | 24d | 2023-06-21 | Sunday Telegraph 3216 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/21/st-3216-full-review/ | bigdave44 |
662,696 | Injuries caused by chain when cycling with no good son (6) | WRONGS | Injuries | 1a | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,697 | Forecast of journalists, mostly very old (8) | PRESAGED | Forecast | 4a | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,698 | Work steadily around border in stiffly correct way (6) | PRIMLY | in stiffly/correct way | 9a | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,699 | Guile misled sister-in-law lacking devious art (8) | WILINESS | Guile | 10a | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,700 | Bond holding masculine student in unnamed Cambridge college for period allowed (4,5) | TIME LIMIT | period/allowed | 11a | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,701 | Native American and Yankee fellow casually dance (5) | MAMBO | dance | 13a | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,702 | Compiling again, crazily cutting corners (14) | RECONSTRUCTING | Compiling again | 14a | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,703 | Losing cohesion is trickily disorientating (14) | DISINTEGRATION | Losing cohesion | 17a | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,704 | Extended rest of career loafers essentially spent at home (3-2) | LIE | Extended rest | 21a | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,705 | Certain it could turn out to be difficult (9) | INTRICATE | difficult | 23a | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,706 | Calming extremes of sensitive case (8) | SEDATIVE | Calming | 24a | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,707 | Forth river bridges do well (6) | THRIVE | do well | 25a | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,708 | Defensive players, ones lamenting following conclusion of shambles (8) | SWEEPERS | Defensive players | 26a | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,709 | Royal Navy primarily cutting cost (6) | PRINCE | Royal | 27a | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,710 | Delay action, circling leader of pack, one large creature (6) | WAPITI | large creature | 1d | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,711 | Drug centres strangely minus dope (5,4) | OPIUM DENS | Drug centres | 2d | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,712 | Dubious legislation surprisingly isn’t abandoned for gifted astronomer (7) | GALILEO | gifted astronomer | 3d | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,713 | Again bury priest in France and offer new explanations (11) | REINTERPRET | offer/new explanations | 5d | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,714 | Measure of course is microscopic. On the contrary, it’s earth-shaking! (7) | SEISMIC | earth-shaking | 6d | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,715 | Regularly golfer aims to show brilliance (5) | GLEAM | brilliance | 7d | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,716 | Go away on retreat somewhere infernal (8) | DISLODGE | Go away | 8d | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,717 | Dissident young woman born quitter, we hear (11) | MISBELIEVER | Dissident | 12d | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,718 | Complete separation from exposure to sun’s rays: tan finally avoided (9) | ISOLATION | Complete separation | 15d | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,719 | Admires words from the bride and groom — tales about intentions, ultimately (8) | IDOLISES | Admires | 16d | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,720 | Indefinite number on street work incessantly (3-4) | NON STOP | incessantly | 18d | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,721 | Over there temperature painfully affected the lady (7) | THITHER | Over there | 19d | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,722 | Welsh like interrupting Frenchman (6) | RENEGE | Welsh | 20d | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,723 | Put clothes on bear? That’s not right! (5) | ENDUE | Put clothes on | 22d | 2023-06-20 | Toughie No 3081 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/06/20/173664/ | bigdave44 |
662,724 | Record of Hungarian composer broadcast (4) | LIST | Record | 1a | 2023-03-20 | Daily Telegraph 30252 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/20/dt-30252/ | bigdave44 |
662,725 | Trip with mates, I suspect, that’s good for morale (4,6) | TEAM SPIRIT | that’s good for morale | 3a | 2023-03-20 | Daily Telegraph 30252 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/20/dt-30252/ | bigdave44 |
662,726 | Work adding a large gemstone (4) | OPAL | gemstone | 9a | 2023-03-20 | Daily Telegraph 30252 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/20/dt-30252/ | bigdave44 |
662,727 | Newspaper columnist on houses? (10) | ASTROLOGER | null | 10a | 2023-03-20 | Daily Telegraph 30252 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/20/dt-30252/ | bigdave44 |
662,728 | That man’s Conservative background (7) | HISTORY | background | 11a | 2023-03-20 | Daily Telegraph 30252 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/20/dt-30252/ | bigdave44 |
662,729 | One failing to get a place in annals, or annal (4-3) | ALSO RAN | null | 13a | 2023-03-20 | Daily Telegraph 30252 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/20/dt-30252/ | bigdave44 |
662,730 | Indiscreet, facing conflict in plant (11) | LOOSESTRIFE | plant | 14a | 2023-03-20 | Daily Telegraph 30252 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/20/dt-30252/ | bigdave44 |
662,731 | Curiously OTT about a medium hit by private record label (5,6) | TAMLA MOTOWN | record label | 18a | 2023-03-20 | Daily Telegraph 30252 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/20/dt-30252/ | bigdave44 |
662,732 | Famous rapper, short name, close to retirement (7) | EMINENT | Famous | 21a | 2023-03-20 | Daily Telegraph 30252 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/20/dt-30252/ | bigdave44 |
662,733 | Initially find us in genuine denial (7) | REFUSAL | denial | 22a | 2023-03-20 | Daily Telegraph 30252 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/20/dt-30252/ | bigdave44 |
662,734 | Popular signs, conspicuous (2,8) | IN EVIDENCE | conspicuous | 23a | 2023-03-20 | Daily Telegraph 30252 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/20/dt-30252/ | bigdave44 |
662,735 | Church dignitary heading off sometime soon (4) | ANON | sometime soon | 24a | 2023-03-20 | Daily Telegraph 30252 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/20/dt-30252/ | bigdave44 |
662,736 | American boarding train for famous race meeting (5,5) | ROYAL ASCOT | famous race meeting | 25a | 2023-03-20 | Daily Telegraph 30252 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/20/dt-30252/ | bigdave44 |
662,737 | Dam — peculiar, no end (4) | WEIR | Dam | 26a | 2023-03-20 | Daily Telegraph 30252 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/20/dt-30252/ | bigdave44 |
662,738 | Predicament after syndicate raised an ambiguity in contract? (8) | LOOPHOLE | an ambiguity in contract | 1d | 2023-03-20 | Daily Telegraph 30252 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/20/dt-30252/ | bigdave44 |
662,739 | Photo of unexpected attempt on goal (8) | SNAPSHOT | Photo | 2d | 2023-03-20 | Daily Telegraph 30252 | http://bigdave44.com/2023/03/20/dt-30252/ | bigdave44 |