Many thanks, jj109, aelmpvw, jazzyjen, for the help! I must confess that I was too impatient with the better part of these clues which required some astute anagramming!
Dannyk13, I did not, for the second or third week running, receive the Cryptic Connections. Please send it to me if you've got access to it! Thanks in advance !
NACW, you may not believe it, but I got the Chalicea crossword on the last day of February and completed it the same day...I thoroughly enjoyed it and also learned some history.
Cryptic Connections
In a Cryptic Connections puzzle, five cryptic crossword clues must be solved; their answers can be made from the list of letters given underneath. Once all the clues have been solved, some letters will be unused; these can be arranged to give a word or phrase that links the answers to the five clues.
1 Cardinal seen in mass ignoring women (5)
2 Range of opinion after the compiler had returned (8)
3 Boss of farm's second to fill trough (7)
4 Damage coach emptied when spring cleaning starts? (5)
5 Some clear thick soil (5)
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