Note For the purposes of this quiz, fish do not count as beasts.

1. Sob in distress (5) Show Answer
2. Misguided love (4) Show Answer
3. Stretch one’s neck (5) Show Answer
4. Paddington on a bad day? (7,4) Show Answer
5. ‘I went heavily, as one that mourneth for his ____’ (Psalm 35, BCP)(6) Show Answer
6. Might be little, long-eared, snowy . . . (3) Show Answer
7. . . . or type of bird (9) Show Answer
8. Lightweight (5) Show Answer
9. ‘Commanding officer’ (American) in a European language (6-6) Show Answer
10. Treads underfoot (7) Show Answer
11. Nelly? (8) Show Answer
12. Quiet part of flower (7) Show Answer
13. Fantastic tuna – fantastic! (5-4) Show Answer
14. ‘The Beginning of Summer’ is related (6) Show Answer
15. STAMATUTE (6-2-3) Show Answer
16. Architect (4) Show Answer
17. Maltese? (6) Show Answer
18. Fatherly pawnbroker (8,5) Show Answer
19. Such words are deceptive (6) Show Answer
20. Encourage man in religious order (6-7) Show Answer
21. Plaything on a string (4) Show Answer
22. Not so cold, but without aspiration (5) Show Answer
23. Take in, or be taken in by (7) Show Answer
24. SIS (4-6) Show Answer
25. Katharina? (5) Show Answer
26. Old French measure on hill (8) Show Answer
27. Head of bank going for a walk (9) Show Answer
28. Punish favourite (7) Show Answer
29. 10-0, it’s said, in return match (6) Show Answer
30. Listen to a description, and you’ll find the answer there (4) Show Answer
31. Rummage (6) Show Answer
32. Poor crop raised in east (9) Show Answer
33. Lion, say, on perch? (7) Show Answer
34. Disorganised choir so near, but article not written (10) Show Answer
35. Undoing nothing, a puzzle (9) Show Answer
36. The best are out of alignment (10) Show Answer
37. Meddle with type of wrench? (6) Show Answer
38. An ungulate? Partly, if one looks back (3) Show Answer
39. Benefit for a graduate (6) Show Answer
40. Drama produced, not well, but with love (9) Show Answer
41. Tool not used by women? (8) Show Answer
42. My French bird (8) Show Answer
43. Put another way, it’s roamed dry (9) Show Answer
44. Opening constructed without a single note (6) Show Answer
45. That’s big! (7) Show Answer
46. Dissolute vice leads to start of trouble (5) Show Answer
47. City where Joshua was defeated (2) Show Answer
48. Schoolchildren out for a walk (9) Show Answer
49. Nuts or bananas (6) Show Answer
50. ‘It was the ____, and not the lark’ (Romeo and Juliet) (11)Show Answer

1. Sailor with a taste for spinach (6)Show Answer
2. Has he been up the chimney? (5)Show Answer
3. Herb not working, we hear (5,6)Show Answer
4. Hebridean cloth (6,5)Show Answer
5. The Owl of the Remove (5,6)Show Answer
6. She liked her epitaphs deranged! (3,8)Show Answer
7. A station to endure (10,4)Show Answer
8. Mr Thatcher putting on the frighteners, as you might say (6,3,6)Show Answer
9. Sounds like a one-off (5)Show Answer
10. Powerful pawnbroker in Eastern Europe (5-5,8)Show Answer
11. Wandering, Mr James, you say? There’s nothing following behind (8,3,5)Show Answer
12. Victoria when young? (6,4)Show Answer
13. Piper’s son with German in wartime (3,3,5)Show Answer
14. Woman by lake loved Crete, after a fashion (4,9,2,8)Show Answer
15. Article to criticise abandoned children (3,4,6,4)Show Answer
16. Plant broom (5,5)Show Answer
17. Officer to pinch star? That’s crazy! (7,9)Show Answer
18. Shoot the cat (7)Show Answer
19. Hopeless at judo level (9,3)Show Answer
20. Juan’s lady and I get organised about note (6,3,5)Show Answer
21. The Curse of St Custard’s (5,10)Show Answer
22. Elderly relative of Mr Giles (7)Show Answer
23. 2 ennobled and acquiring name (4,6)Show Answer
24. Workers on river (8)Show Answer
25. Legendary king with unproductive acreage (6,11)Show Answer
26. Guarantee to exchange drugs for silver and mix well (9)Show Answer
27. Fruitcake from Greater Manchester (6)Show Answer
28. Alias ‘Mr Artist’, having a drink (8,6)Show Answer
29. Ascetic to give birth (4,4)Show Answer
30. Sir Pelham Grenville’s butler (6)Show Answer
31. Mr Campbell, get down! (6,4)Show Answer
32. Gloomy summer? (10)Show Answer
33. Two rivers, not well, but coming to nothing in the end (3,7)Show Answer
34. Mr Novello as train driver? (4,3,6)Show Answer
35. Singer in defter arrangement (4,6)Show Answer
36. He’s in the process of decomposition! (5)Show Answer
37. Flower number 9 (7)Show Answer
38. Beget a young troublemaker in the fifties (6,3)Show Answer
39. Frances Fish (5,7)Show Answer
40. Lead the side, having degree in conflict, holding on to a mixed gin! (7,10)Show Answer
41. Member of the flock with a haircut, by the sound of it (5,3,5)Show Answer
42. Nicer bananas (from the north?)Show Answer
43. I loan dream to be interpreted (6,4)Show Answer
44. Fish meadow (8)Show Answer
45. Evil eye on source of metal (6)Show Answer
46. Field marshal with snake (5,6)Show Answer
47. Wilde’s handbag woman! (4,9)Show Answer
48. Specialist in low comedy? (6)Show Answer
49. Skipper has dog to clean up (7,7)Show Answer
50. Father of James and John (7)Show Answer

1. Article on famous clown (5)Show Answer
2. Chocolate biscuit with this …? (7)Show Answer
3. … and cake with this? (7)Show Answer
4. Cartel broken up (6)Show Answer
5. Torment mixed with bile, maybe (6,5)Show Answer
6. Get bigger and bigger (8)Show Answer
7. Reformed, quit ale – for this? (7)Show Answer
8. A grain’s processed here (7)Show Answer
9. Newcastle? (4)Show Answer
10. Sterne’s eponymous hero (6)Show Answer
11. Cast about to go astray (6)Show Answer
12. Transformation of mortal with drug for adult (6)Show Answer
13. Back inside, prepared ice-cream for tea (5)Show Answer
14. Letter to an opponent (7)Show Answer
15. Field (4)Show Answer
16. Cautious about girl (10)Show Answer
17. Soul returns in state (4)Show Answer
18. That’s champion, Fred! (5)Show Answer
19. Within forge, a thin piece of metal (6)Show Answer
20. Charlie succeeds in song (9)Show Answer
21. ‘Sir Joseph! Carry your bags, sir?’ (6)Show Answer
22. The Ethiopian King Arthur (5)Show Answer
23. Town in America and German youth leader (8)Show Answer
24. Made in north-east Reading (9)Show Answer
25. Lodge for a time with Uncle? (4)Show Answer
26. A snare for the unwary (3)Show Answer
27. Heads of businesses report also at beginning of year (6)Show Answer
28. Make the chauffeur suffer! (11)Show Answer
29. Money to start with (5)Show Answer
30. Make the most of exploit (4)Show Answer
31. Short gospel – can I follow? (7)Show Answer
32. A light two-wheeled carriage (6)Show Answer
33. In ancient Israel, between Dan and Sheba (4)Show Answer
34. Bouncer? (8)Show Answer
35. Spoil Georgia and another girl? (9)Show Answer
36. ‘Cognac, ____, 23 and Beaune’ (Flanders & Swann) (8)Show Answer
37. What’s happened still exists (6)Show Answer
38. Found in one who has a keen sense of humour (4)Show Answer
39. Nod off after school, before adding an afterthought (8)Show Answer
40. Confused doctor, artist and father! (6)Show Answer
41. Rush around with bottle-opener (5)Show Answer
42. Ban soft fabric (5,6)Show Answer
43. Eccentric … (3)Show Answer
44. … overweight … (5)Show Answer
45. … stick-in-the-mud … (3-9)Show Answer
46. … Dutch lawyer (8)Show Answer
47. Mingle the elements at random (9)Show Answer
48. Designed the basin (8)Show Answer
49. Unexpectedly nastier, … (7)Show Answer
50. … made from the demon ale! (8)Show Answer

1. Where the money’s made (4)Show Answer
2. Ivy’s friend with a bottle of wine (9)Show Answer
3. Melancholy beauty we hear (8)Show Answer
4. He admired himself too much (9)Show Answer
5. Avalanche? (8)Show Answer
6. Spoil one who gets first prize (8) Show Answer
7. Article on cat, say, at college (7)Show Answer
8. Whale concealed itself (6)Show Answer
9. Blake’s was weary of time (9)Show Answer
10. Reprimand for a high-flyer (6)Show Answer
11. Short paragraphs on a type of line (7)Show Answer
12. Favourable surroundings (6)Show Answer
13. Priest gets mixed up with a couple of chaps (9)Show Answer
14. The quarrel when drug disappears (6)Show Answer
15. Orwell wanted us to keep it flying (10)Show Answer
16. In these gardens, a gentleman may walk with you (4)Show Answer
17. Coward’s song (6,5)Show Answer
18. Defeat gravity with affection (8)Show Answer
19. Cunningly argue: ‘Not all mine’ (8)Show Answer
20. Your old compiler! (5)Show Answer
21. Ready in Paris about four (6)Show Answer
22. Eastern camel, twisted with agony, we’re told (10)Show Answer
23. Day-labourer and youth leader (5)Show Answer
24. Ratty’s friend? (4)Show Answer
25. Get teas prepared (7)Show Answer
26. ‘And there’s the Lenten ___, That has not long to stay And dies on Easter day’ (Housman) (4)Show Answer
27. Loud and soft (4)Show Answer
28. Scattered under logs (9)Show Answer
29. Sir Percy’s alias (7,9)Show Answer
30. Mythical beast eats heavenly being, having bitten off tail (9)Show Answer
31. Musical phrase repeated in not altogether orderly context (7)Show Answer
32. Martial instrument (5)Show Answer
33. Males of different species (8)Show Answer
34. Forceful but nameless (6)Show Answer
35. Post office in Badger’s home has first-class return (10)Show Answer
36. Jersey to lose a number to Ulster (7)Show Answer
37. Home in a boat (7)Show Answer
38. Not many left after the illness (8)Show Answer
39. Overturn barrel before back massage and soak (9)Show Answer
40. Number of mythical birds around university (6)Show Answer
41. Aldebaran? I see . . . It’s in there! (5)Show Answer
42. ‘The inequity of oblivion blindly scattereth her _____’ (Thomas Browne) (5)Show Answer
43. Henry must march astray when leader of regiment goes missing (13)Show Answer
44. One note changed for another in ill-feeling (8)Show Answer
45. 45 Printers’ signs incorporated into note (7)Show Answer
46. Preaching sailor? (4-2-3-6)Show Answer
47. Trophy for a sovereign (7)Show Answer
48. Give baby some milk, darling! (11)Show Answer
49. Sybil’s other half (5)Show Answer
50. A girl or two (8)Show Answer

1. Rudolph and friends (8)Show Answer
2. Deadly sin (5) Show Answer
3. Deviant paroled (7)Show Answer
4. One carried by boats to Athens (5)Show Answer
5. Author of The Chronicles of Clovis (4)Show Answer
6. Headless hound (5)Show Answer
7. Nelson the communist? (3,7)Show Answer
8. Cordon off (6) Show Answer
9. Time in choirs mis-spent (7)Show Answer
10. Wizard! (6)Show Answer
11. Augustus in a rage? (6,7)Show Answer
12. Rubbish on island (9)Show Answer
13. A number wrapped in slumber (5)Show Answer
14. Carpenter’s mate? (6) Show Answer
15. Scoff predator (4)Show Answer
16. One who might go a-wooing (4)Show Answer
17. Cash register in religious house (10)Show Answer
18. Chatter incessantly (6)Show Answer
19. Burning love (8)Show Answer
20. Minced alligator? No thanks (7)Show Answer
21. Joins up, we hear (4)Show Answer
22. Spy a pier (4)Show Answer
23. Two familiar chaps (6)Show Answer
24. Plain, yet add uncertainly (7,4)Show Answer
25. Exist to make statement (6)Show Answer
26. Name given to Leander’s love (5)Show Answer
27. Izaak Walton to his admirers? (10)Show Answer
28. Gaoler loses note (6)Show Answer
29. Fool Quaker (3)Show Answer
30. I call for more French (4)Show Answer
31. Anecdotes to trick the lawyer (8)Show Answer
32. Round ones tend to appear about Christmas (5)Show Answer
33. Irish involved in social blunder (7) Show Answer
34. All right then, a Greek letter (5)Show Answer
35. Pig eats young salmon (7)Show Answer
36. Heather is leading performer (8)Show Answer
37. Navy one ran for many years (4)Show Answer
38. Pester the rescuer of 22 and friend (6)Show Answer
39. Supposedly pious ground in place (7) Show Answer
40. Beginning to end of singular school of wizardry (7)Show Answer
41. In Africa, melodies of great beauty are created (5)Show Answer
42. "There’s a _________ close behind us" (Lewis Carroll) (8)Show Answer
43. Dundee children in double file (9)Show Answer
44. Priest takes in novice (5)Show Answer
45. Monty’s associate (6) Show Answer
46. Street decorations (7) Show Answer
47. Kipling’s old man well and truly run after (8)Show Answer
48. Mariner’s nemesis (9) Show Answer
49. Fasten (4)Show Answer
50. Clean home in disarray (9)Show Answer

1. Rubbish! (4)Show Answer
2. Was miserable (5)Show Answer
3. Push your way in (5)Show Answer
4. It’s murder, we hear (6)Show Answer
5. ‘A ______ is counted but a vain thing to save a man’ (BCP Psalms) (5)Show Answer
6. A storm-tossed ocean (5)Show Answer
7. Comic sketches without a beginning to them (4)Show Answer
8. A number at Delphi? (7)Show Answer
9. Fish on the table (10)Show Answer
10. One in reordered parish (7)Show Answer
11. Race while front of house is destroyed (10)Show Answer
12. New-born cherub, one embracing love (8)Show Answer
13. Path for a bird? (7)Show Answer
14. Stevenson travelled with one (6)Show Answer
15. Essay on many sheets of paper, delivered orally (7)Show Answer
16. Epic host, as deployed . . . (4-6)Show Answer
17. . . . thanks to a letter (4)Show Answer
18. Capital! (6)Show Answer
19. Danes’ new professorship (5,5)Show Answer
20. What Mr Donegan played after abandoning the French (5)Show Answer
21. £25; gin as well! (4,3,4)Show Answer
22. Time had a winged one for Andrew the poet (7)Show Answer
23. Dynasty has so many followers? Not any! (6)Show Answer
24. Trainer for the cast (10)Show Answer
25. Heroin is superior to cunning (10)Show Answer
26. Plant gum (10)Show Answer
27. Patches of standing water running backwards! (5)Show Answer
28. Tube, just over a yard long; nothing for English (5)Show Answer
29. Unknown number of Germans . . . (5)Show Answer
30. . . . who had become confused? (6)Show Answer
31. The Right is confused about priest and policeman (10)Show Answer
32. Light gold (6)Show Answer
33. Have up for rebuke after enchantment (5,6)Show Answer
34. Room with weaving instrument (5,7)Show Answer
35. Queen of Commonwealth state (8)Show Answer
36. Pamphlet on alternative (7)Show Answer
37. Terriers came first? (7)Show Answer
38. Discovered in shutting lid erratically (6)Show Answer
39. Legendary bad driver missing hospital (7)Show Answer
40. Audible attempt to acquire tool, by the sound of it (8)Show Answer
41. See how fast the device goes in Wells, for example (4,7)Show Answer
42. TM (6)Show Answer
43. Strain for playwright (8)Show Answer
44. Southern bird, English royal (7)Show Answer
45. Swell up (7)Show Answer
46. A pound for an Irishman (4)Show Answer
47. Recycled amber in us (9)Show Answer
48. Master East is sorted out . . . (7)Show Answer
49. . . . or a castle is demolished (9)Show Answer
50. The market makes a comeback (4)Show Answer

1. How you initially get DNA sorted out? (5)Show Answer
2. Go and undo confusion (6)Show Answer
3. Laurel is planted by river crossing. (8)Show Answer
4. Get the vehicle dirty, by the sound of it (8)Show Answer
5. One who’s drunk retsina? (7)Show Answer
6. Robin, maybe, can be heard (4)Show Answer
7. Couple going round north get distracted (7)Show Answer
8. Transport, we’re told, and put away (8)Show Answer
9. Primates? (7)Show Answer
10. HL (6)Show Answer
11. East German gentleman allowed back first (8)Show Answer
12. English in Ascot is mangled (6)Show Answer
13. Brook’s Almain (4)Show Answer
14. Party for a large number (5)Show Answer
15. Might be found on the Thames (6)Show Answer
16. Enlarged endlessly and reconstructed (5)Show Answer
17. Birmingham team meets Wolves in Spain (5-5)Show Answer
18. Potential sound (4)Show Answer
19. Short street leading to a French wine: heaven! (10)Show Answer
20. Defensive manoeuvre (5)Show Answer
21. Unknown encounters opponents and gets what the poet got from Jenny – almost! (7)Show Answer
22. Sovereign among musicians? (8)Show Answer
23. Not here at all, is he? Oh yes he is! (6)Show Answer
24. Lure constable, intoxicated, to join apprentice (7)Show Answer
25. He sounds great, but you might not think so! (7)Show Answer
26. Arrest a country (7)Show Answer
27. Len mends Mixture, incorporating fifth degree of scale (11)Show Answer
28. Work included in feature (6)Show Answer
29. Obtained from the butchers (8)Show Answer
30. Meant as something different (7)Show Answer

1. Press-gang (8)Show Answer
2. Avenge in bizarre fashion (6)Show Answer
3. Abandon love (5)Show Answer
4. Hidden in the water, I gained an advantage (4)Show Answer
5. Slip on spilt oil (7)Show Answer
6. Dam on diverted stream (9)Show Answer
7. Instruments; I’ll give you a hundred for a thousand (7)Show Answer
8. Where schismatic popes used to dance? (7) Show Answer
9. Company with board reshuffle (7)Show Answer
10. Georgetown? (10)Show Answer
11. NAH (7)Show Answer
12. Article on heavenly beings in Spain (3,7)Show Answer
13. Smoke drifting out East (4)Show Answer
14. Port for Michael? (9)Show Answer
15. Gone about on devious course round head of river (5,5)Show Answer
16. Holy one possesses gift? Quite the reverse (6)Show Answer
17. Golden, according to St Bernard (9)Show Answer
18. A rejoinder: ‘O, I will provide the materials!’ (3,2,7)Show Answer
19. Might be found following Jack (6)Show Answer
20. Bankrupt round about – run madly! (9)Show Answer
21. Listen to the poet of Arcadia (6)Show Answer
22. Have a drink here with Brown? (9)Show Answer
23. Its way of operating is to intimidate! (6)Show Answer
24. Lofty hostelry (7) Show Answer
25. See it at your peril? (6)Show Answer
26. The capital of Czechoslovakia (4)Show Answer
27. 1. City of China (7)Show Answer
    2. City of China (7)Show Answer
    3. City of China (7)Show Answer
28. Officer in charge is absorbing the atmosphere (5)Show Answer
29. Parrot (i.e. exotic creature) (8)Show Answer
30. Letter about an attempt (7) Show Answer
31. Head of linguistics is good in French (6)Show Answer
32. Change? Open to change, anyway (10)Show Answer
33. Loaners? (3,7)Show Answer
34. His judgment (or lack of it) led to the Trojan War (5)Show Answer
35. Roundabout girl (8)Show Answer
36. Tired to distraction (7)Show Answer
37. Misshapen thorn by current carries weight (11)Show Answer
38. Eccentric if and only if put together (7)Show Answer
39. Malta, then Samos – that’s where you’ll find it (6) Show Answer
40. BEDURGH (9)Show Answer
41. Let a good old shepherd, leading them, guide you here (5)Show Answer
42. Return of Anne the Fourth (6)Show Answer
43. Managed Harry Secombe? (7)Show Answer
44. A theologian is a Russian grandmother! (5,5)Show Answer
45. Biscuit (4)Show Answer
46. Immortalised in comic verse (8)Show Answer
47. 1. One evil one (6)Show Answer
    2. One evil one (6)Show Answer
48. Zsa Zsa is unique! (8)Show Answer
49. Fulham manager provides a home for it (5)Show Answer
50. Where the tailor lived (10)Show Answer