BBC Children in Need Appeal
3D Cryptic Calendar Puzzle
November with clues set by Locum
This puzzle notes an 85th anniversary in the US, celebrated here in London.
Clues are set so that solutions appear in alphabetical order.
Nov 17aw five letters
1st Other such ‘temps’ (a true translation)
‘temps’ is in quotation marks
Nov 15aw five letters
2nd Source of chocolate – a 15ac gets one
Source is spelt s-o-u-r-c-e
3 2aw five letters
eg Quelch, making you prance – and not quietly!
Exclamation mark
4 19ac seven letters
Head of column, original location of our game is England’s
England’s ends apostrophe-s
5 2d,23aw
2-down-comma-23-away-snake
nine letters
A chest on board providing togetherness
6 15ac seven letters
People altogether wary about elected member – a nobody, at the
beginning
7 2ac five letters
X could be King’s, on board
King’s ends apostrophe-s
8 2ac,5d snake
2-across-comma-5-down-snake
(5,4)
Strabismus scores badly, indeed
9 12d five letters
Rene Magritte detail that aids evacuation
10 14d-2,18aw snake
14-down-hyphen-2-comma-18-away-snake
six letters
Grommet that’s surrounded by water, we hear
11 28ac four letters
Just blonde
12 21ac four letters
County known in Scotland
13 27ac seven letters
Do ray-mi-fa – one of the 10ac that could go for a song
14 16aw five letters
Powered bike was miserable
15 20ac (3,4)
One of the 10ac token’ld play?
Question mark. Use the letters T-O-K-E-N-I or L-D
16 4d (2,3)
Broadcasting in eg radio, after day/night shift
17 4aw five letters
Gas with weight 23aw?
Question mark
18 6ac,9d snake
6-across-comma-9-down-snake
eleven letters
Where you could get confined over evil working (grabbing a bit of
loot)
19 6d five letters
Little loops I create initially in grass
20 1ac seven letters
Go over again, aid organisation short of dollars
21 1d five letters
What Elvis does – a girl’s best friend?
Question mark
22 11d five letters
McDowall, say, found in Novgorod, dying
23 1aw five letters
Pearls aplenty – experienced people know them
24 3ac,5aw-2 snake
3-across-comma-5-away-hyphen-2-snake
five letters
Red wine consumed in Figaro’s Sorrento?
Figaro’s ends apostrophe-s
25 24aw five letters
Indian madder, from Fraiburgo returning
26 22aw five letters
Quiet? It takes guts to be quiet
Question mark after the first Quiet
27 22ac seven letters
Trafalgar and Leicester on board – but they’re definitely not with it
28 25aw five letters
Guide toothpaste around start of hole
29 10d five letters
NCO takes hill; direct assault
Assault is spelt a-s-s-a-u-l-t
Nov 10ac seven letters
30th Coventry (yellow), Oxford (green) and Fleet (red) on board; far in
front when so ahead
Clue 26ac seven letters
31 Protector for the limb, possibly? No, just the thumb
Question mark after possibly
Clue 23aw five letters
32 One little devil escaping untouchability?
Question mark
Clue 9aw,13d snake
33 9-away-comma-13-down-snake
seven letters
Someone at the door? Could be it’s Ivor
Question mark after door