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maggieriorda | 21:53 Thu 24th Aug 2023 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Cryptic clues, anagrams and other clues, each answer is a type of animal. I am useless at Cryptic quizzes and I know some of you will enjoy this.

1. Anderson’s 1960’s Aquatic TV Puppet Show (8) (I think it’s Stingray)
2. Convey a short fight (7)
3. Make a fresh “cuppa” (4)
4. Sounds like a Peruvian City (5)
5. Rouse a cat (9)
6. Resettled the rams (7)
7. Deceiving feline (7)
8. Press with great pressure to make it sound (7)
9. A blind one works to make the instrument sound better (4)
10. Wetland Jump Jet (5) (7)
11. Sounds like one woman duped another (8)
12. Help neat confusion (8)
13. Chained up (7)
14. Greet Violet Carson Informally (5)
15. You can Babe for 21 Shillings (6) (3) Guinea Pig (I got that one!)
16. When the sun goes down a Kilner is useful (8)
17. Sounds like a Benedictine Sous-chef (8)
18. Return oil, North (4)
19. Eye a gleaming powerful specimen (5)
20. Jumper with a pocket in front (8) ( I think this must be Kangaroo ?)
21. Battered Short (5)
22. He operates better with a brew inside (8)
23. Tough, short Cockney Queen (6)
24. Famously Tamed (5)
25. The Dwarf leader returns (3)
26. What the dentist wouldn’t use on a remote patient (8)
27. My French bird (8)
28. Split the atom, catastrophic! (6)
29. Put an orange in the blender (6)
30. Squeeze narcotic robots tightly (3) (11)
31. Everyone upset got air (9)
32. Arrived then left (5)
33. Sounds like the heavy squad (6)
34. Rebuff a lot (7)
35. A royal one made of wax (5)

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14 hyena ...hi ena
22:07 Thu 24th Aug 2023
^^ surgeon around t(ea)
21 I assume 21 is "battered ShorE = horse
Ignore my "sturgeon" for No 8

jj109 has it for No 22
8. buzz ard
Nice one Sam - I have spent ages on that one
23 liz 'ard
thanks jj

hope this finds you well ; ))
Fine thanks Sam - same to you!
Nice one again jj

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should say nice one for getting No 23
once again - your buzz 'ard helped!
Just number 33 left now - come on someone!
33 Mussel - sounds like muscle
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