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(1) My first is in darkness,
Never in light,
My second in bark,
But not in bite;
Though biting I’m fond of,
My third and my fourth
Both appear in account,
But neither in north;
My fifth is in unicorn,
And in umbrella,
My last two complete me,
A horrible fella!
I live in a castle,
I’m ever so old,
My story has been
Many, many times told;
Once in a book,
Several on the screen;
My habits are deadly,
As well as obscene.
Who am I?
(2) A hole to mount?
It’s nothing with a count.
(3) Fifty in the back
Or be will colour lack.
(4) My first is in puzzle and also in clue,
My second’s in black and in bold and in blue,
My third is in pony and also in horse,
My fourth is in envy but not in remorse.
My fifth is my last, and it may be said
Although I sound black, I’m usually read.
(5) It’s black and read all over, yes,
But not a silent ethnic press.
(6) You’ll find my first in cookery,
My fourth and last in thief,
A kitchen is my workplace.
How do you like your beef?
What am I?
(7) I start with a solo,
I’m partial to gammon,
I worship a god
But his name isn’t Mammon.
I have seven letters,
I’m regal and wise,
If you know your Good Book
That’s a feeble disguise.
Who am I?
(8) You’re quite sure
This nation is pure?
100%
(9) You’ll need this when you go abroad.
I will? A credit card? Good Lord!
(10) Malevolent spirit, perhaps of a wog,
It’s almost a decapitated young dog.
(11) The company with no return
The man the Klansmen love to burn.
(12) Give Ginger a whack
And watch him turn black.
(13) Give the nigger a boot
And he’ll get to the root.
(14) He’s black, sounds wank,
Met Tyson, got a spank.
(15) Of six million dead he knows there’s no proof:
A slimy Jew who’s found up in the roof.
(16) Almost said
Get this and you’re dead.
(17) In five and eight, a place that’s known
To turn a famous face to stone.
(18) Briefly, the Baronet begins to trade
Without the use of money, I’m afraid.
(20) In letters eleven and eight,
The slave rode this to Northern State.
(21) A femme fatale will anger mount,
And make a creature like the Count.
(22) The top man terminated with a bullet and a city?
In letters seven, seven can you solve this little ditty?
(23) Vehicle terminates: I do declare
In letters seven it’s a slanted square.
(24) Kay runs around, and well, I’m beat:
She gives Tibetans milk and meat!
(25) I may not be a misery,
But I’ve still got the hump!
Nine letters make my name: a ship,
Although the sea I’ve never seen.
Know what I mean?
(26) In three, five, what a load of crap,
He nets three balls, but in his cap?
Who does, the centre forward?
Hat Trick.
(27) A famous artist and inventor, so it has been said,
In letters eight, two, five he has a lion at his head.
(28) A handkerchief less half a grand
Turns to plantain, you understand.
(29) Side of a building and a road
Near Mammon’s dollar bill abode.
(30) When Flo is rid of one you’ll find
The state she’s in, (but not her mind).
(31) Click here for this riddle.
(32) In triple time begin it
And dance about a minute.
(33) He may be of a different race,
Or even come from outer space?
(34) A fellow and what he wears on his head,
Together with the browning of his skin
Will name a well known neighbourhood, it’s said.
(35) A lone hen oi! It isn’t what it seems,
But something ’bout which every golfer dreams.
(36) Possessively feminine
German with;
A word that’s in use
To describe a recluse.
(37) The dark man with a common name:
A forger with a legal aim.
(38) Return to where your plans go down the drain,
And start to plot,
And scheme the lot
Again.
Four, two, three, seven, five.
(39) Now red
It’s said:
A mixed marvel.
(40) Mummy’s pet is not her minion,
Rather her declared opinion.
(41) In seven, three
Electric chicken she.
(42) Such music is said
To be denser than lead.
(43) The cow’s mate is asleep,
Know what I mean?
Or is it a demolition machine?
(44) A saint and map, you see:
Alas, the postman’s fee.
(45) In letters five and six don’t ridicule
This bluesman who comes from a dirty pool.
(46) A man of principle he was, did he design an arch?
No, that won’t do,
So here’s a better clue.
Two letters name a pioneer,
A thinker and a seeker,
If you should find him, then I fear
You’d better shout Eureka!
Who was he?
(47) A side of pig’s permitted in this play,
Six letters, pass a village on your way.
(48) Can loons be wise?
If shuffled, I surmise.
(49) A double negative can be
Another way to say H.P.
(50) Listen to this, I fear
It’s something you can’t hear.
(51) A man who fights to make a mint,
In sixteen (total) you will see;
He does his mercenary stint
And ends up with a melody.
(52) Can a domestic animal
Begin to make a fuel?
This sounds a bit bizarre,
But put some in your car.
(53) A taxi starts, it’s finished with an age, although it’s green,
And on your plate or in the garden seen.
(54) Not quite the boss? He’s itchin’
To dominate the kitchen.
(55) In five and five I understand
The Queen’s “small room” holds the best hand!
(56) Ray sat on it confused until
I shook him up, but he’s there still!
(57) She meets one, and another;
The answer’s not her brother,
He doesn’t drive an Audi,
But a camel: he’s a Saudi.
(58) It’s in the kitchen, cup and plate,
And names an Oriental state.
(59) You’ll see me on a chequered board
Or see me in the air,
But you’re too slow to guess my name
In letters four, I swear.
(60) In letters eight, she’s not amused to be
In Australasian territory.
(61) Part of a scientist may abscond:
A little fella in the pond.
(62) A quid will buy most of this dish,
Because it’s a five lettered fish.
(63) A victory comes first
With two ewes in the middle,
A thousand at the end,
And I’ll complete this riddle
By saying that in six
The word I’ve spelt means nix.
(64) King Solomon’s mine?
No, his canine:
Chew on this one in six, five.
(65) There’s three hundred and sixty-five of these
In someone’s diary (and hanging on trees).
Five letters.
(66) A box you’ll need, but not until
It’s time for me to read your will!
(67) Primordial stuff I declare
Found absolutely everywhere,
It isn’t dark, in fact you might
Say there is nothing quite as light.
(68) Give her a ring;
What will she do?
She’ll come, and,
With luck, so will you.
Four, four or four hyphen four.
(69) Five letter this one sir, (or ma’am):
(70) A famous wizard changes one provided
(71) Respectful term for maybe
(72) What’s that, you say:
(73) The God of War has two of them;
(74) The nicest crime? It has to be:
(75) This man is a loser in ten letters, seven,
(76) You’ll see me glowing yellow in the city of the night,
(77) I sound like a brave sort of person,
(78) The boxer’s fighting for this thing
(79) A riddle with which I am sure to confound,
(80) This lady may be none too bright,
(81) The girl who, no surprise,
(82) Man from the valley said
(83) A British boxing champ might wear
(84) Four, seven, six, we start the week you say
(85) He’s stark naked, I’ll have you know,
(86) A pair of comedians in six, three, eight.
(87) Six letters: the last two are found in cleric,
(88) Rap back to heir and t’would appear,
(89) Red rum confused with Roman grand:
(90) A former prefix married to a rat:
(91) Five in the navy
(92) Start with a negative,
(93) Antipodean who may leave
(94) A crooked line leads where-o?
(95) It ends a fight
(96) He’ll file about with one,
(97) When the President loses his head
(98) A number of insects declare their intent:
(99) In three and five
(100) Sex with a duo,
(101) A branch of mathematics:
(102) Disease? Good lord,
(103) Footwear to limb and, four plus three
(104) Three, three, one, four:
(105) Trees in the plural, (very charred),
(106) Lois has it,
(107) They’re pygmies, I suppose,
(108) The French dead, gravity and three,
(109) This dark girl was two-forty to a pound,
(110) The broker’s taste when so construed
(111) In seven, seven, does this seem
(112) Sounds like the chicken’s done
(113) With mount and men this could
(114) No, it is more than half (twice that), you’ll spy
(115) I’ve letters four; I’m not a toy,
(116) I’ve seven letters with an ‘e’, but only six without,
(117) Four letters name a city; in a twist
(118) Eight letters, six name this conundrum solver.
(119) Five letters name a place fit for an earl,
(120) Three letters, five: chess opening? What bunk!
(121) Permit man on the radio:
(122) Concert a pallindrome,
(123) Airborne Flatlander (’scuse my quip):
(124) Wolves such as these I’ve heard
(125) The equine from the shore,
(126) Rioted and at large,
(127) Royal bird in the drink?
(128) The lot begin musical car,
(129) A rodent: slight mis-spelling,
(130) This riddle has a certain sleaze:
(131) Departing from the Orient?
(132) The Medical Officer on
(133) Body odour in the shop may
(134) He’s after house or made of sand,
(135) A horse race seen to run
(136) Five letters, five will surely give
(137) To this level most masons climb,
(138) No fire bird
(139) A wonderful machine in letters three
(140) Medical officers upset
(141) Colloquially thank you, jeer:
(142) French writer of note
(143) The first month separated by a rod,
(144) My first is in jacket,
(145) It’s the result of an illegal shot
(146) Between five hundred and a thousand, sure,
(147) Precipitation jig;
(148) What’s the conception rate
(149) A duplicate
(150) A ruminant joins forces with a youngster, yes, you’ve guessed:
(151) Five letters, three and four: a seaside couple,
(152) Nine letter word: it could be, well, a fungus,
(153) A young girl with the letter ‘M’.
(154) My first is my seventh: ten letters in all,
(155) The end of a chicken?
(156) Possessively feminine to begin,
(157) A cereal that warms you when you eat,
(158) Liz takes her bra
(159) Though it’s in general use, this boot,
(160) The frog’s voice fades a bit and thus you’ll see
(161) A ton of ice so to mention,
(162) The time and dates are well and truly messed:
(163) Call me all weed
(164) Eight letters name a sanction
(165) A game familiar William starts,
(166) Five letters four: it’s not easy to fix:
(167) Zero, one, fifty
(168) The referee takes one to drag
(169) Four, four: he’s on the bound,
(170) Buy it, bear it away, but heck,
(171) The red rat in the cellar?
(172) An ill sock I perceive
(173) Two antiquated coins, the big one first,
(174) In five and nine, this is the consequence
(175) Most of the month precedes the baby’s head
(176) It’s no jest,
(177) In letters ten eleven can you coin
(178) When three prefix a rook we find a city
(179) Musical insect - four, six - what a pity
(180) The top man terminated with a bullet and a city?
(181) A hat, eye, eye:
(182) County garnish I’ve
(183) In four, one, five, backgammon player says:
[See also (204)].
(184) Two transcendentals make a meal
(185) A Monday company
(186) Expectorate on something hot:
(187) Forbid three, two the same:
(188) This crow is almost cowardly:
(189) A speedy dog, but not to US,
(190) A pear is, man,
(191) His music lives, his fans agree
(192) Almost repetitive, the ape
(193) Prohibit Queen and “fellow” from afar,
(194) A mixed up coot meets nasty stuff; it’s pish
(195) Alone in gaol in nineteen overall
(196) The goy goes back in pain
(197) The goat god with five hundred or a socks
(198) A fish goes inside, and in one more eight,
(199) The color Peter turned around:
(200) Dead Marx analogy? I’ll say!
(201) Six, four: a duplicate which I am able
(202) Reference book
(203) One lad is bent
(204) Emphasise
(205) I’m active at sunset time,
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The fish eater from Rotterdam.
In six a modern city is divided.
(But not any more!)
A palindromic lady?
A magic bird of prey?
Six letters.
The Love Goddess has none;
But you and I
And everybody else we know has one.
Name it in four letters.
It’s one for all the family.
He blows all his bread at roulette,
Or poker, or gee-gees, he’s never in Heaven
Unless he is placing a bet.
And after, there’s only regret.
What is he?
You’ll eat me in a halide with your chips.
No! Don’t get too excited that you’ve solved my little game,
Cos what I want from you’s a seven letter Latin name.
(A woman) but really I’m not,
In fact I’m a lady they’re cursin’
For I’ve sent many people to pot.
Six letters my name has, a hero
You will find is located within,
Take me and you’ll end up like Nero,
Committing a cardinal sin.
Or just killing yourself.
What am I?
The housewife keeps her money in.
It’s a book, or a space, it might even be sound.
But she’s always about at night.
Three letters.
Is always first to rise.
To be easily lead.
This with his trousers. I declare.
Eight letters, four.
With a usurer’s vacation? Okay!
This sprinting gambler raking in the dough.
What’s he on in seven, six?
Of which one has a price while the straight man, his mate...
Has taken holy orders!
While Foreign Office Nazis head this relic.
In six, the clergyman is here.
The man who’s sitting in the band.
He’s in the film, and a surplus at that.
Name my pal;
You’ll see him
Digging the canal.
End with a joint of pork,
It’s somewhat north of Birmingham,
And further south than York.
You in the hole: six, I believe.
You’d better ask the Pharoah!
Between two men
When one can’t beat
The count of ten.
That’s how it has to be;
Because of what he’s done
They’ve thrown away the key.
He inhabits the Whitehouse instead.
Eight letters.
In seven they move in and start to pay rent.
A scary guy;
In eighty-nine
We watched him fry.
Not one of those theories.
Instead, it’s a book,
Number two of a series.
(One of great uncertainty?);
Eleven, six:
And tricks
With numbers - spin a coin and see
What it is.
I thought you said applaud!
Gives something made illegally.
Not in - zilch score.
Or else they’re gathered up,
For he who wins the series
Takes them home (also the cup).
But her fella
And her best friend
Wouldn’t tell ’er.
And viridescent, though you’d trace
These fellas to a modern fairy tale...
Or outer space?
Six letters, five and three.
Assist a homeowner to be.
But she’s no longer seen to stamp around.
Five and five.
May to a swimming style allude.
A fraudulent Egyptian scheme?
Something it shouldn’t do,
Or it could be that one
Was careless with his cue.
Four and seven.
On pedestal be stood.
This bright thing every month in the night sky.
Four letters, four.
So tell your little sister,
Your brother too, and every boy
You know, they’ll get a blister.
Or worse if they play with me.
What am I?
I’m not the ghost of Hamlet’s father,
Of that there’s no doubt.
But a spirit all the same.
Your Hibernian friend knows who I am, eh Jock?
Transforms into a game of widow’s whist.
What is it?
To find him, take a cab to Baker Street.
A hansom, of course.
And a grasshopper’s cousin. Run and duck?
I’m sure the fellow was a Spanish monk.
Shakespearian you ought to know.
It’s one that should be known
To every rocker.
(Slang).
In six, eight, ectoplasmic ship.
Are common to most every word.
(I needn’t tell you more).
Eight letters.
Of the journal he took charge.
Welsh city, I think.
Up tempo beat: not so bizarre.
Seven letters.
And it becomes a dwelling.
Applause for sexual disease?
A vegetable is what I meant!
Seven letters, six.
Without the Sun would not have shone.
Orbit Mars in a fearful way.
And in the sky, you understand?
Name him in six.
Where the Moon shades the Sun?
Tertiary place where Nazis live.
But for the cops it’s “question time”.
In the pink, I’ve heard.
That works with rods and cones - what can it be?
Join the Israelis? Don’t talk wet!
Something that isn’t done, I fear.
Who may get the right vote.
Located in the Middle East, that’s odd!
But never in cloth,
My second in hover,
And also in moth,
My third is in border,
But never in edge,
My fourth is in meadow
And also in sedge,
My fifth is in grade,
And my sixth is in ground,
And in the Mid East
Hot and arid I’m found.
Where Messrs White and Davis go to pot.
When this is absolute, there’s choice no more.
Four, five: you dig?
For these idiots, mate?
A famous showman reckons
One every sixty seconds.
What are they?
Seen to expectorate.
Six letters name a fellow long connected with the West.
A pair who always seem to be in trouble,
Because the fellow beats his little wife,
Poor girl, she really has an awful life.
And now the crocodile’s run off with the sausages.
Although, (I hope you will not think me rude),
It sounds like froggy’s cousin’s done a crude .....
Well, you know: shit himself.
What, twice? Yes! If you wish.
A tasty bird? Good heavens, no!
Why, she’s cold as a fish!
But can you name her in seven letters?
I’m a man with a heartful of ice.
I am often known by my first six and it’s true
That I can be both clever and nice.
You may find me inside though I’m sure you’ll agree
That a jail’s not a proper solution
For a man with my kind of sick mentality,
So perhaps a secure institution
Of the hospital kind is a better retreat
Until I am safe to let back on the street.
If ever.
Who am I?
Yes, but not a hen,
It’s common at parties,
Both women and men
Knock it back. Eight letters.
With a short lesbian sat at the end,
Roman copper is located within,
And thus, a well-known demi-god, my friend.
For even when it’s cold, it’s full of heat.
And travels far,
In six she’ll be
In nut country?
I doubt you’ll wear it with a suit.
Ten letters.
What once was little has become a tree.
To bring to one’s attention.
In other words, it’s what somebody guessed.
Would you indeed?
I’ll cause your early death!
Nine letters name a cylinder
That takes away your breath.
That’s painful, like a spank;
Or else perhaps a fellow
Who in service drives a tank?
Any ideas, you ’orrible little man?
’Twas popular until
A game with nineteen extra spheres
Gave folk a bigger thrill?
What is it?
Four major tournaments or thirteen tricks.
Bit of a racket, I’d say.
Make liquid? That’s nifty.
On an illegal fag.
(Rana) in the playground.
In this store never pay by cheque.
Four, three and five.
No, I said is the seller.
Ah, a fella!
Makes ecologists grieve.
Get us from A to B, (these clues get worse),
So take a ride on this, you clever bloke,
In letters five and eight the answer’s spoke.
When twelve dozen commit a sex offence.
And turns to fruit in seven, it is said.
But a serious place to rest.
A club that any motorist might join?
In England and Oz - can you solve this ditty?
He ended with a bang in New York City.
In letters seven, seven can you solve this little ditty?
(In rhyme with Cambridge spy).
Seen: fourteen letters, five.
“It’s how I emphasise.” (And how he plays).
Have you blot, I mean got, the answer?
(With pastry), but it’s no big dea,
Because, without the second name
The first and food sound just the same.
(Abbreviated two).
Nation to you.
Or city?
A British battler’s what you’ve got.
A fruit, but what’s its name?
Whoever can this fellow be?
In fact, it’s a long distance bus.
In old Iran.
That in that, so is he.
In New York is a merry jape.
In letters seven at a feast we are.
To claim this leggy fellow is a fish.
Makes total isolation o’er the wall.
To sour milk, that’s plain.
The letters into she who holds the box.
We see a bloke who can of wood, things create.
The man creates musical sound.
It’s millions of light years away!
To state is made from the sixth in the table.
That has a jaundiced look?
To Irish Parliament.
Backgammon-wise.
(Four, one and five).
And generally at night;
I’m a handsome little fellow
Though my teeth are sharp and white.
Six letters make my name up,
I live on or ’neath the ground,
My home in the initial line
Of this verse can be found.
What am I?
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