If you’ve come to any conclusions about me whilst reading anything on this site, you should have realised by now that I’ve got a thing about words! The Daily Telegraph cryptic crossword used to occupy quite a bit of my time but the internet has made me lazy and I never buy a newspaper any morenow. Anyway, this is another innocent diversion of mine and here are a collection of cryptic clues I’ve compiled. I’ll be adding to them from time to time.

If you make up your own crosswords, please do help yourself!

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ABROAD – A minor highway overseas (6)

ACDC – Current rock band (2,2)

ACRID – Tart right in, pungent (5)

ANCESTRY – In the circumstances, try and find your forebears (8)

ANY PORT IN A STORM – Not bothered what to drink during heavy weather – or where? (3,4,2,1,5)

AUDITORY – Hearing a German road user and a Conservative (8)

BEDROOM – Boredom from the post-cocoa destination (7)

BEQUEATHED – After passing on, passed on (10)

BRIEFLY – Buzzer looking after French cheese fleetingly (7)

CHINAMAN – Oriental gent left spinning (8)

CLIMB – Scale middle of bacon leg (5)

CLIVE – 154 to note a man of India (5)

CONCERTINA – Recital in a musical squeezer (10)

CRUDE – Rudimentary hearing staffed (5)

DAMPER – Blockage through discouragement (6)

DEFENDER – One of the back four sees final in delay (8)

DEMAND – Ask for the bill (6)

DEMEANING – Humiliating internet German translation (9)

DUCHESS – Noble lady of the French strategic game (7)

ECLIPSE – Overshadow trailers within eastern borders (7)

EGGS ON TOAST – Urges the Queen to get a light meal (4,2,5)

ENTERTAINMENT – Train me to get confused between Treebeard and another. It should keep you amused (13)

FLAMINGO – Setting fire to nothing but pretty songbird (8)

FLOURISH – Prosper, like Homepride (8)

FUNDAMENTAL – Important to have a great time with top US lawyer of the mind (11)

GAME BIRD – Quail, for example – plucky flier? (4,4)

HARRY – Badger Prince (5)

INCANDESCENT – Fiery Peruvian ancestry? (12)

INCIDENT – Happening to be investigators in first, ten in trouble following (8)

LIQUID ASSETS – Readily saleable pub stock? (6,6)

MANIFEST – Obvious marine inventory (8)

MARS BAR – Sweet forbidden planet (4,3)

MEDIUM – Mean spirited intermediary? (6)

OF THE ESSENCE – Vital to be in concentrated form (2,3,7)

OFF THE RAILS – Where an errant child goes, perhaps, after a disastrous training session (3,3,5)

OPINE – Give view on nothing and fade away (5)

OUT TO GRASS – Escaped from prison to squeal but retired, perhaps (3,2,5)

PEDOMETER – Deter poem – faltering foot counter (8)

QUIVER – Shake a case of Archers (6)

REFERENDUM – Direct attention to final hesitation – the peoples’ choice (10)

REFRAIN – Hold off regarding precipitation (7)

REPETITION – Concerning lobby, concerning lobby, concerning lobby! (10)

REMUNERATION – Payment ruins a minor tenure (12)

SEMOLINA – Wheat from mean silo (8)

SHADES – Darkens the end of Orpheus On The Underworld (6)

SHAMROCK – False modern music – lucky if you’ve got it (7)

SURPLICE – Clerical wear sounds more than one needs (8)

SURPLUS – More than enough on French increase (7)

TAXI – Levy, then I called a cab (4)

TENDER – Affectionate  offer of money (6)

UNIMPORTANT – Print amount carelessly – it doesn’t matter! (11)

OR  Magically changing man to turnip is of no consequence (11)

WALL STREET – Building part on road in New York centre (4,5)

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