Letter F 151500–151750

From Prague perhaps? Feeling of weariness and boredom Flatulent or tortuous? Female relation From Mumbai e.g. Fail to look after Fanciful – insubstantial Familiar name for crane fly suggesting a tall father Fact-filled book, often part of a set Foretell from signs Frantically busy Flat sheet of frozen sea water Find them on Instagram Flight deck occupants Footballer’s partner (slang) Fabric from a goat Film director’s cue Fashion or food? Failing to take the long view Family’s live-in helper Find one in a pack Fixed – like healed bones Fish or fuel Find one on the road to Canterbury Fester or Vanya? Fiercely launch a verbal or physical attack Frolic – theatrical performance Form of government without a monarch Full delivery Friend to Whitehouse and to Reeves Fancy evening event Fruit – iota Fast asleep – drunk Floating solid mass From an Arabian republic From southeast Germany Flapping messenger? Funny, relationship-based flick Fruit-like bitterness? Fool – pull suddenly Finally (with some relief) Flowers – of the valley? Floating sheet Form of cricket Flying post Folded Mexican snack Fine, smooth cotton thread used especially for stockings Felt both ways Fishy chap? Flower(s) Fourteen lines Fatigue after flight Floating cheerfulness? Frenzied outburst Fitting flagstones Field beet – gull wren maze (anag.) For both parties, beneficially Flier from remains of fire? From Douglas? Flipping performer? Fast jazz First sheet, often Foot dresser? Feeder on termites Festival on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday Familiar people Fail at college Food to take to school or work Funny use of language First passage From St Petersburg, say Fire loader Flying staff From a former central European country Feeling of melancholia Flower – light bluish-red Fixing a stiletto, perhaps Fizzy pop – fairylike creature Footballer’s nightmare France or the USA, but not the UK From a volcanic island Fluid-holding receptacle or tank Four seasons, say Frozen period From either of two UK universities Fraudulent online ploy Feather – smoke Facial image perceived on satellite Football boss Fitness centre Figure (maybe Roman) First (in a series of events) From start to finish Formally make (a complaint) Formal approval Feeling of resolution Full of initiative French grey Fingers or feet? Find it under the mattress? Forest-dwelling giraffe relative Faint sign Frangipane flavour Film shots edited into a sequence Fairy-tale rescuee, often Film, human or civil Fabric made with tie-dyed yarn Figurative turn of phrase For the few, not the many Firmly committed (to an idea) Feeling involving obligation French maker of luxury watches and sunglasses Follow – dog – end Frozen field that floats Fancy variety of church Fuzzy green foodstuff – former airline Friends café manager – the gurn (anag) Fifteen hours of opera Firearm forger Flower’s fruit Flower ‘too red’ for Plath Film with Dustin Hoffman as ‘Dorothy’ French term for easing of tension Fowl – country Full of yolks? Forenames (anag) Far Eastern green beans Function or equation Fruit vendor Felon once Fish in Indian cuisine Farmland bird Funny device? Front man or woman Find one in a stew? Find them on mountain roads Feel it when money’s tight Finish a task French cinema of the late 1950s Failed to finish on time Fitting – on to upper (anag) Face, count or heart? Feature of Russian Orthodox church architecture Find it underfoot Find them in a rookery First word of many a fairytale Fellows who won’t disagree Fancier word for nosh-up Fauna’s counterpart Final of the ‘five stages’ Favourable aspect Festive film of 2003 Fight – shed – remnant Features of many songs and poems Freewheel – shore Facility or usefulness Fungus – rounded skirt Film necessitating box of tissues Fictional doctor, he talks to the animals First in new field of enterprise Flat pie (anag) – dirty and shabby old cinema Form business contacts with people on social basis Flop lazily into a chair Fully aware of what is involved Football referee’s warning sign Fishy misleading clue? Fairground spiral slide Fabulous, based on stories Fundraising event with stalls and refreshments Full English perhaps Film sequences recorded without interruption Found in a particular geographic region Fight or argument Frasier surname – tall building-site sight Frogman’s outfit French figure of pantomime Flat side of the head Fixture on another ground Feat on motorbike Family – stew Fellow – crack (as skin) Face painter? Flora’s usual companion? Fruitful environment? Feelings of intense longing False, fair-weather or furry Form of shoe? Fatal weakness? Feeling about the future – inner tempest (anag) French soldier’s headgear Frequently over-imbibe Fighting, free or festive Fried (or grilled) slice Fix computer errors Furry mammal with a ringed tail Fertiliser made of bird droppings Fundamental shift Focus obsessively (on) Finely nuanced Founder of the Fifth Republic Firework, disappointing when damp French law enforcement officer Flower – Maurice Leblanc’s gentleman thief Fondled – fabric Form of infidelity Film about a cyborg Familiar name for Handel’s Ombra mai fu from Serse Face – sanction or approve Flock-losing shepherdess Fast and energetic (music) Fruit field Familiar saying – example Fully energised – or inflated? Forceful speaking Fledgling business venture Flat French dish Follower of rules, even when unwise or inconvenient Friendly – like an uncle Force uniting countries? Flag with three stripes Fool – information Foul-mouthed female drinker Further weekend zeds? Fabric covering head – old nose wiper Friend known through writing Fasten (front of jacket?) Floating people-carrier Fire-raiser’s crime Fish which breeds in the Sargasso Sea Flinched with pain or embarrassment Flat-bladed kitchen utensil Football manager’s viewpoint Flour or paper producer Flamboyantly eccentric Fabric made with metallic thread Fictional corporation making e.g. exploding tennis balls Fruit you wouldn’t put in a fruit salad Fashionable item in 1950s China Folkloric figure of diminutive stature Fast car or fast driver Footballer turned actor Full to bursting French nobleman and author Fiendish – comedian (anag.) Flowery fruit (in tea?) Frank __, ex-boxer Fish-hook’s business end Final work First in Suetonius’ biography of the first 12 Roman autocrats Form a unified whole
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