Letter C
Crunchy salad root vegetables
Cole Porter classic often danced to at the start of a romance
Cole Porter song urging an angel to sound his horn
Celestial body revolving around the sky
Classic Bob Dylan song questioning life's mysteries
Customs document required for exporting vehicles
Cash or currency used for transactions
Chaotic public melees
Classic golf comedy starring Chevy Chase and Bill Murray
Cause a vessel to tip over
Common means of transportation
Came to an abrupt stop
Command to stop moving
Classic deli dish with poultry, mayo, and celery
Classic deli sandwich with pork and dairy duo
Classic clown gag involving fizzy water from a bottle
Cold War espionage org
Classic Orson Welles film hailed as one of the greatest ever made
Camus novel about existential detachment
Central part of a wheel
Color between red and yellow
Certain speech sounds that aren't vowels
Clear window at the front of the eyeball
Compass direction opposite to south
Classic deli sandwich with mustard and pickles, perhaps
Cooking, but backwards
Comic-strip sandwich stacker
Cowgirl actress who rode with Roy Rogers
Caffeine-free brew choice
Compound formed when an element combines with oxygen
Common household pet
Contraction that's a warning not to proceed
Conservative or unadventurous in character
Child’s play
Character visited by ghosts on Christmas Eve in Victorian literature
Common blacksmith's surname
Common girl’s name ending in ‘-lla’
Calls for extra performances
Concludes, as a meeting
"Charles in Charge" actor who also played Chachi on "Happy Days"
Comedian known for his cigar and partnership with Gracie Allen
Cuban revolutionary leader who governed for nearly five decades
Cable sports broadcaster with a four-letter acronym
Cape ____, launch site for space missions
Common feminine or diminutive ending
Commit boldly, as to a risky venture
Counterfeit, as an ID
Chopin composition evoking the night
Cat in classic children's book title
Complete or conclude
Citizen Kane director famed for innovative filmmaking
Comedian famous for his cigar and partnership with Gracie Allen
Chew persistently, as a bone
Creator in the Abrahamic faiths
Cost is irrelevant, as the phrase goes
Capital city on the banks of the Red River
Companion of Chewbacca in Star Wars
Common introduction to a potential stranger
Crude place to live
Cloud identity management initials
Clumsy and incompetent
Classic castaway’s refuge
Capital on the Missouri River named after a founding father
Capital city of Nebraska
Cutting edge utensil
Continue to endure
Coin of Japan or Indonesia
Catastrophic failure at a nuclear plant, for example
Cash circulating in the capital of England
Cows' calls in the barn
Change in position or progress
Canadian city known as the "Gateway to the West"
Contrary voting word
Cancel or reject informally
Cookware with a handle, often found on a stovetop
Camera movement across a scene
Christmas carol starting with "O" and referencing a modest municipality
Command to leave a vehicle in a space
Chocolate-coated York treat with a cool, refreshing filling
Central Asian native, or their language
Celestial body seen at night
Common household invader
"Common nickname for Peter"
Conservation zone, often legally designated
Classic Poe story featuring theft by subtlety
Cooked very lightly, as a steak
Classic cheese-lured contraption
Concise and to the point
Ceremonial act observed with traditional steps
Capital of Italy
California city at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers
Cured with wood-fire, as some meats
Critical medical shorthand
Canadian provincial park on Vancouver Island known for its wilderness
Collaborative unit
Classic Western film starring Gary Cooper
Constant c in Einstein's famous equation
Coach – form of transport
Crust on skin
Char (anag)
Complete change of opinion
Comedian – in the pack?
Complain incessantly (Yiddish)
Charles or Charleston
Cutlery used by owl and pussycat – pencil or bonus (anag)
Crop stripper
Conceited dignitary
Concrete powder
Author, Notes from a Small Island
Characteristic of Cancer or Capricorn?
Certainly not odd
College – mess
Completely in love – somersault
Cake – Goon Show character
Commandeering a vehicle
Crisps, cod or caramel?
Created (electricity)
Classic illustration
Conflict among citizens of the same country
Carb-heavy food
Car window up above
Country made up of more than 170 islands in the South Pacific
Claire Ann (anag) – reddish-orange semi-precious stone
Confusing sound of many voices
Container of marine life
Cheat (colloquially)
Crowing bird
Cut bristles
Critical and causal
Charming (as landscapes?)
Coil of twine or hair?
Cat – butterfly
Car’s upper window
Corset (anag)
Cassava pudding grains
Conditions study
Carvings etc – figures of speech
Cast (anag)
Chain-length sporting strip
Cold and northern
Cause to become – plaster
Country with city Hyderabad
Clicking mammal
Canadian province / Great Lake
Canadian baseball team – N American birds
Could you repeat that please?
City on Florida’s Biscayne Bay
Causing wry amusement
Change in order to improve
City preserved by 79AD Vesuvius eruption
Concise, abrupt
Cited lie (anag)
Chestnut, tooth or nothings?
Couch for tanning
Clear away clutter
Coarse green-skinned banana
Craving libation
Confine – Nicolas?
Connected to computer network
Computer file(s)
Convert into new products
Collision – influence
Compound – trees (anag)
Cheerful time for cheaper drinks
Cardholder’s validation digits – attach
Computer virus’s kin – invertebrate
Cause of pain in big toe?
Correct a text or manuscript
Canal boat crew bloke
Coat metal using current to transfer ions
Clarify (something complicated)
Cigar-smoking Marx brother
Collapse through lack of water
Customer or slope?
Cult Londoner (anag) – running wild
Chance – to search for something valuable
Currency launched in 1999
Clay, homing or stool
Crack in a bone
Comment on a text
Course or rifle?
Crack (a clue)
Carefully consider (one’s words)
Consistently correct
Careless talk – doctrine is sin (anag)
Change channel
Caused annoyance
Cut by 50 per cent
Caracas’s country
City on the Belgian coast
Connect to and grip
Charles III, say
Cowboy’s greeting?
Compass needle direction
Confection with candles
Cricket or rugby, e.g.
Come to again
Chore (anag)
Coronation Street, say
Change priorities?
Checkout worker’s helper
Crested or dwarf lizard?
Cheese wheel
Corkscrew object or shape
Civilian escaping dangerous place
Cagebird
Capital city of Georgia
Car with rear-end door
Correction of teeth
Close friend that’s chopped fish?
Country, capital Harare
Cobalt colour
Come back – type of ticket
Country, capital Maputo
Coarse matting fibre
Comparison between two contrasting things
Chucklesome
Chimney/tall structure climber
Contrivance of interlocking parts for fastening
Crockery frames
Comprehensive in coverage
Cabbage type – hotel
Cartoon pizza lover – former US president
Curry made with chillies
Condemned – belittled
Creative work(s)
Cow breeder?
Cavy, for example
Child-bringing bird?
Chicken beater?
Composer, CPE or JS?
Cored (anag.)
Card game with ‘shooting the moon’ – cabbage centres
Components of suture
Clever risky action
Copied (as in a living form)
Conservative senior members
Cheeta, Tarzan’s sidekick?
Composer’s eerier choice?
Crop chopper
Card game – with odd numbers?
Charge(s)
Cooling container – in a challenge?
Chilli sauce topped, filled tortilla
Casting factory
Chine (anag.)
Caribbean magic
Cunning and unscrupulous
Container at low temperature
City of confusing languages
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