The Guardian – Quick crossword No 14,514 – Nov 14 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| Acceptable — punishment |
FINE |
| Anguish |
TORMENT |
| Bellow |
ROAR |
| Causing fear |
HORRIFIC |
| Covered entrance with columns |
PORTICO |
| Discursive |
RAMBLING |
| Exaggeration |
OVERSTATEMENT |
| Find and bring back |
RETRIEVE |
| Fruit of a rose plant |
HIPS |
| Having many inhabitants |
POPULOUS |
| Initiating ordeal |
BAPTISMOFFIRE |
| Leader (from Hamelin?) who entices people to follow him to their doom |
PIEDPIPER |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Links |
TIEINS |
| Male voice — fish |
BASS |
| Mimicking |
IMITATIVE |
| Nabokov novel about a nymphet |
LOLITA |
| Prevent free expression |
GAG |
| Protective headgear |
HELMET |
| Quarrelsome |
ARGUMENTATIVE |
| Repressed |
PENTUP |
| Roll of tobacco for smoking |
CIGAR |
| Show impatience to act |
CHAMPATTHEBIT |
| Sneaked |
CREPT |
| Wrath |
IRE |
