Letter F
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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