Letter C 264500–264655

Collectable item Chap who made a miraculous comeback? Coffee-flavoured liqueur Chris van Tulleken book ___-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop? Clumsy extinct Mauritian Comic’s act – humdrum Church fixture – typeface Cat who’ll catch vermin Cross-the-Channel currency Canal in the news in 1956 Computer screen warning Colorado, May or stag Cuppa creator Chess outcome with no winner Country singer Rosanne – tender Confront – features Cain’s kin C American republic Check – part of a champagne flute Capacity measure, nine imperial gallons Caper (anag.) Clean between teeth Chestnut-coloured Cervantes’ dreamer Country bordering Germany Cans cook OK (anag.) Current (overused) neologism? Character raised by apes – virile man Confound (someone) Change something without permission Considerate behaviour Car or crop? Check – cap Cowboy’s fake sparkler Cylindrical sponge Code or deal? Core part Cheshire Cat’s abiding characteristic Coastal defence Characteristic of a koala or pelican Common addition to a Martini Character introducing e.g. the left-hand part of a piano score Colourful, decorated earthenware; I jam coal (anag.) Change (a word) – vary (a pitch) Consent (to) – match Casting, cleaning or estate? Coffee, tea or water? Conflict between the Montagues and Capulets, for example Cassoulets (anag) – they’re doomed Clown’s role in Hamlet Churchyard carving Completely right (informally) Clapton or Cantona? Characteristic attitudes Complicated geometrical figure or pattern Chess piece worth five pawns Colonel, e.g. Corrupt – Johnny? Canonical work Cosmetic ointment Convex feature of a road Cancel or reverse Cotton fabric woven in checks Cornichon, say Columned building entrance Contradictory device Caribbean from Kingston? Chaos – turn-up this month? Collar companions? Cosy home Cited fen (anag) – suffering from contamination Chicken or camera? Chief – water source Conscript, e.g. Close match? Correlatively Cunning negotiator Comedy from the Bard Celeb’s protector Citizen of small urban area Central Italian region Curved glass opening Centre of a target Choice – purple colour Cover – test Colour of old photos Container for jewels or valuables Container for tobacco Combination of diet and exercise Chemical reaction catalyst Chess piece which can be promoted Communicative faculty Comprising various elements of different kinds Captive creature’s enclosure Comparatively dubious Conflict or animosity Competent but unexceptional worker Cutting tools with folding blades Chatting, perhaps with a view to gaining personal advantage Consumer of plants and animals Change from one form into another – master nut, anag. Cook – become enraged Corrected for publication Californian city and county Cheerful person Comment made after sternutation Capital from 1949 to reunification Conventional response to ‘thank you’ Club – legendary warrior Cheese-making ingredient Critical – full of life City in northern Italy, birthplace of Enzo Ferrari Candle and conker tree Crisp vegetable Curved row of houses Climber’s ultimate goal Chewy (meat) Chewy (pasta) Cold-hearted Comical – Disney character Caught up (in a tricky situation) Cute and compact Cowes Week, for instance Criticism of what’s been said or done Crusty baked goods Coated in grease Consummate professional Criticise – form of support CS Lewis’s lion Clean up one’s act Clove-scented flower Canapé holder Card (and board) game Cause concern Copes (financially, say) Colourless, fruity-smelling solvent Carpenter’s bits Candle/lubricant substance Coffee maker and server County of Cromer and King’s Lynn Chocolate filler Carpet alongside tub Consider (that) Chair carried by porters Cash-for-canines sprite Carved (raised design) Capital where the Titanic was built Country on the Pacific coast of South America Cinders’ lost property Cloudy darkness Charged cumulonimbus Cigar-smoking old wit Co-designer of the Monument in London Clarify or explain Cowboy from The Dandy