Clues Starting With

f

Food thickener extracted from seaweed (4)

For example, stupid flipping sucker! (5)

Former US president loses millions, primarily tax dodger (6)

Face snooker revolution (4)

Fluttering eyelids in sordid manner (7)

Fan removes uniform for closest mate (4)

First of all, horses must be given numbers (7)

Fanatic — monster (5)

France's doomed people carrier? (7)

Fancy: 'Prussia' contains name of another country (6)

Flower, gilt edges removed, clutched by gutted lady (4)

Frustrate, thwart (4)

Factional divide (6)

Film commentary (5-4)

Fish go into chippy (9)

Finish close second in race (8)

Frame in competition — lose it (5,2)

Fellers, those recording information? (7)

Float with a marine crew (7)

Fat dog is knackered during exercise (5)

Fish from south not available in W Yorks city (4,3)

Fleshy extension at back of the soft palate (5)

Following a story that has no end is disastrous (5)

Flying down the touchline? (2,3,4)

Following kick-off, running back for corner (4)

Fancy pheromone contains secret message (6)

Flick knife (11)

Funny film shortened — would be, too, if the ending was cut (4)

For some, WC Fields blowing his top with hate is outrageous (3,6)

Finish filming (4)

Forced flier to land finally — previously arrested (9)

Fan opinion — sell-out sounds annoying (5,9)

Fellow coming out in spots, beginning to suspect rash (8)

Fixed and definitive (4,3,4)

Fungus by the sea gets wet, finally (5)

Formal headgear (inf.) (6)

First sign of the zodiac (5)

Farmer being punched by small gang (10)

Fowl's crest (4)

Figures holding back in game (6)

Figure old motor starter is installed in right-hand vehicle (7)

Friendly, pleasant and good-tempered (7)

Furious pace with pilot flying with the speed of light (10)

Fundamental parts of a platform (6)

Fare pocketed in voyage at sea (4)

Feature of Love's Labour's Lost nothing but repetition (12)

Fastidiousness of society rip-off (10)

Fussier tailoring producing slit (7)

Fixtures in north taken on by northbound Redgrave? (6)

From advert, I got a queasy feeling (7)

Forgetful, distracted (12)

Free offer to arouse customer interest — reseat (anag) (6)

Fictional Italian lad with an embarrassing tendency to lie (9)

For the most part (6)

Fully commit to making a splash? (4,3,6)

Fashionable to travel round a windy city (7)

Fictional barrister created by John Mortimer (7)

French existential philosopher and Simone de Beauvoir's partner, d. 1980 (6)

Figures turned up at short notice: not a lot (4)

Food grinder? (5)

Friend not in the church for pseudoscience (9)

Feeling sleepy (6)

Fine by me (informal) (4-5)

Fantastic price made one want to do it now (5,4)

Foremost of keen investors exploiting venture capital (4)

Film tricks that capture the sound of fox dispatching duck (7)

Fly home with religious group? (6)

Fighter disposing of both sides creates classic record (7)

First conqueror of Everest with Edmund Hillary (7,6)

Filling canine with hole at the front, cutting into infected area (6)

Fitter in many locks (8,3)

Favoured student (8,3)

Fruity bureaucrats? (9)

Film in shadow (5)

Former prime minister's upset, ultimately very tired (6)

Feature in how to turn a cat into a man (6)

Fabulous story involves English travel card? (6)

Forceful and definite (8)

Failing to push for result (6)

Flat out, prepare for a fight (6,3)

Fracas kicking off if hot dog thrown about? (4,5)

Fish with second fish (5)

Fog mixed with smoke (4)

Framed someone by setting a trap (8,2)

Finish cleaning second little pet (3,2)

Folk wisdom about weather in part of France (8)

Fish swallowing end of angler's line (4)

Food prepared from husks of cereal grains (4)

Front office for countryside activity (11)

Facing nasty snakes you and I may show timidity (8)

Female promiscuity of blonde bombshell with attempt to cut out wife (8)

From a country in the Horn of Africa (6)

Foolish fellow — American thug (4)

Former PM's retreat briefly Chancellor's responsibility (9)

Frozen continent (9)

Fast electronic music (6)

Flower power shortly facing the end of hostility (5)

Former student given finally more Guinness double stout (5)

Fancier has best that is last of litter (9)

Finishing off each can, dog's thrown up (6,2)

Fabric Raymond gets removed from boards (5)

Force restraint of member: not right (6)

French painter dreadfully rueing … (6)

Furry South American rodent (5)

Fine material used for veils (5)

Flying pig? (6)

Fish stick bought at seaside (4)

Figure meat and grain eaten by King Edward, say, part of English course (9,6)

Five hundred sheets of quality paper (4)

Fish with a venomous tail (8)

Flag on a ship leaving port (4,5)

Feeder on carrion (9)

First service at 10 (5)

Fancy pickles to stash (9)

Fooled by belt pinching Nike design (5,2)

False regret after relative's guillotined (6)

Female, inwardly modest, showing a bit of leg (5)

Forced Pat to hurry to catch American stage show (6,9)

Foppish fellow also losing head (5)

From the deep area near a lake entered by ship (7)

Fair-weather timepiece (7)

French holiday house in the country (4)

Fresh — make-up (informal) (5)

Foul zip location (5,3,4)

Formal agreement (8)

Flat-bottomed river boat (4)

Fit wrapping round King's Row (5)

Final warning (9)

Female reproductive cells (3)

Finally, the Times replaces work from rival advocate (8)

Featured exhibit surveyed with theft in mind (9)

Fresh start (5,5)

From water, retrieve reversible piece of harness (6)

Failing to reach conclusions, made many crazy (6)

Form of capital punishment (8,5)

Forerunner of the taxicab (7)

Flat circular shape (4)

Find out about American saints (4)

Fix Liberal journalist dealt with (7)

Fat boy taking run (4)

Father Time traditionally carries one (6)

Fabric stiffener (6)

Force party to compromise (4,2)

Flourishing American business admirer (2,6)

Face up to change — it may be refreshing (3,2,3)

Figures leading American university conference … (6)

Food and drink from France spiked with drug? (7)

Flight instruments I replaced (6)

Final stages of a chess game, negotiation, etc (7)

Fine cotton fabric, often used to strain food (6)

From madness, putting out small idiotic remark (7)

For example, woman will pack extremely ginormous cases (9)

Flash jewellery (5)

Forced to rise, being directed across sierra (7)

Fabric with a crisp smooth texture (7)

Flip chart supporter (5)

Forcefully motivate (5)

Following proper procedure (4)

Figure with cake and tea getting biscuit at the back (3,5)

Friend forced to accept retirement, primarily by firm (7)

Football team with tendency to cross, winning corner at the end (9)

Feeling of anger caused by being offended (7)

Family heir required to eat every bit of spring onion (8)

Fabric company clothing most of band with narrow stripe (9)

Floored a criminal with what protects many churches (4,4)

From the top! (5)

Feathers are better than a baton movement (8)

First name of Robin or Wren? (11)

Fuss about fleet meeting a storm (7)

Formal speech (7)

Fruit salad ingredient (5)

Fruit salad ingredient (5)

Fruit brown, green is unlikely (10)

Foul in the extreme, hunk cavorting with aunt showing no appreciation (10)

Fish similar to cod (4)

Friends given the most common component of breeze block (6)

Fine-tune; adjust (5)

Fastened with needle and thread (4)

Fascinating woman (but dangerous to know) (5)

Fist (slang) (5,2,5)

First of all, probing young journalist asked me about strange bedtime habit? (7)

Fed gossip about rejected column — it's possibly forged? (9)

Formula One is in Monaco on a holiday (6)

French Riviera resort (6)

Formal public arguments (7)

Family — ethnic (6)

French harbour — I'd peep (anag) (6)

Forced to work one's way up in Palladium (6)

Formal accessory: variety of poker (4)

From Limassol? (7)

Food in pub for needy type? (6)

Form of madness, say, associated with sultanate the reverse of excellent (8)

Fellow in sparkling entertainment (4)

Four-legged animal (9)

Figure — song (6)

For one number following 1 + 5 + 0 + 4? Complicated (2,6,2)

Forgotten nationalist voted in to overthrow government (9)

Feed small bears (8)

Fear overwhelms German defeat, taking a very optimistic view (10)

Flies in the face of danger, one party's leader: that's final, period (7)

Find difference at the bottom of writing (8)

Feel terrific — holy orders (not RC) providing a comfortable situation (3,4,2,5)

Food that may be tossed (7)

Fire on a hill that can be seen from a distance (6)

Female warrior from Scythia? (6)

Forced to retire (esp a racehorse) (3,3,2,5)

Fancy a nut? Go for this sweet (6)

Flow — discharge (4)

Food shop (abbr) (4)

Food and drink supplier (7)

Foul-smelling (5)

Foreign lady not starting books in a blissful state? (8)

Feature a group of extremists seizing power (6)

Floored — unseated (6)

French trademarked aperitif (6)

Fizzy drink (4)

Family standard husband abandoned when moving (7)

First of haunting autumnal images Keats used to write poem (5)

Fabrications found by Welsh chap in the papers (7)

Fleet Street jargon — a June loser (anag) (10)

Forwarding to another agency for consideration (8)

French city cut employment for another one (8)

Ford a channel going west, following new range (6,6)

Fine old athlete ruined with heroin? It's how things are (3,3,2,3,4)

F1 world champion Graham (1962, 1968) or Damon (1996) (4)

Freedom to do something enjoyable? (7)

Finds another role for exceptional actress (7)

Foremost of storytelling authors, keenly ironic (4)

Filibustering film style? (4,6)

Fool male with ladies problem … (7)

Firm is no merchant holding dubious label (8)

Formally induct government that's promising (8)

Food (said to be relatively cheap) (5)

Fabulous old Greek writer (5)

Female composer desires to replace end of stringed instrument (7)

French author exploded to Ravel about one (8)

Farage or Kennedy? (5)

Finally Cambridge University college involved in meetings for schools (8)

Feeling anxious, having lost ID in quayside scuffle (6)

Final phase? (6)

Fraudulent act (9)

Finishing touches for scripts by Dan Levy, showing correct use of language (6)

Fool (informal) (6)

Foundation garment (6)

Frame splenetic review of history play (4,4,2,5)

Forming bands visible in horizon, almost (5)

Freedom fighters (9)

Forces surrounding some fortifications (8)

Force to leave (5)

Forger's workshop? (6)

Feature in TV, magazine, etc, in regular successive parts (6)

Friendliness (5)

Finish with this writer in editing (8)

Flu? Daughter is calm (7)

Food additive code (1-6)

Formby's usual companion (7)

Full of twists and turns (10)

Female, one wearing dresses on expeditions (7)

Flower arrangement in furniture shop to cover most of store (7)

Fast broadband connection mostly in street (5)

Feeling exhausted and isolated (3,2,5)

Fall for rotter in action (7)

Free hit to leg (3,2)

Follicularly challenged! (8)

First-class seminar on one chapter (7)

Fish swallowing large lump of earth (4)

Fibre taken from new sails (5)

Flowers went among balloons (10)

Fantastic fire trick almost failing (8)

Foxy four first to find record keeper (9)

Female stars do it, dropping in (3)

Fancy — whim (6)

Flog — push (6)

Fellow accommodating illicit tavern is party guy? (12)

Fighting security measure, he may leave you spellbound (7)

Fire individual that's not succeeded (5)

Female singing voice (5)

Fill with apprehension (6)

Farming centre of California's Central Valley (7)

Fealty; fidelity (7)

Fake medic turned away (3)

Finished in a group, so left alone (9)

Father has time for idle talk (6)

Fruit sown occasionally in oriental bed (5)

Formerly (2,3,4)

Favoured competitors — bird-feeder contents (5)

Former star to boycott part of course (5,4)

Festival of lights celebrated by Hindus, Jains and Sikhs (6)

For analysis of data, it's twice cast out (10)

Favouring first quarter in mathematical arrangement of data (6)

Final result (7)

Fool, big lump (4)

Fools take on county (9)

First of balls found in broken urinal behind entrance of tennis court (8)

Fool in defence, City's back (5)

Frail worker having broken spirit, lifted (6)

Fool lowers credit (8)

Fool one in three names with chicanery, finally (5)

Far from bloody good job! (4,4)

Fool covering king in some butter (4)

Favourable (10)

Fuming (and ready for a fight?) (2,2,4)

Full-flavoured (4)

Feeling angry and upset (2,1,4)

First across the finishing line (6)

Flamboyant bachelor's game has no limits (7)

Flower completes Monet's first artwork (5)

Fights against spoilt sisters (7)

Fanatical about dressing in some tops? Not these (7)

Feathers end up exciting wonder (5,4)

Frisky collie gets only half of sweet treat (3,5)

Fortified wine (6)

Fire, having caught sight of retreat in range (8)

Foggy — incomprehensible (6)

Fraternise during swimming lessons (6)

Fraudulent scheme (6)

First month of the Jewish calendar (6)

Funny situation or person (4)

Fantastic sunlit surroundings for river that's pristine (8)

From the air, glass oddly is a chemical weapon (4,3)

Flabby adipose tissue, primarily (3)

Fancy Chelsea tractor leaving street to get fuel (8)

Formal midday meal (8)

Fail to qualify? Don't go falling into the canal! (4,3,3)

Fragrant shrub (5)

Flabbergasted (6)

French post-impressionist painter (7)

Fruit resembling a large lemon (6)

Fan chasing diminished top seed (6)

Fool in show of enjoyment backed rebellion (6)

Former figures in garden, with first couple moving back as a penance (9)

First party in a new home (5-7)

Figure with eight sides (7)

Filming device connected to a computer (6)

Full agreement boy must go to college (6)

First person engaged by tense part of play left unspoken (5)

Flyer's machine for raising weights (5)

Feral child raised by great apes in the forests of Angola (6)

Foot the bill (3,2)

Financial support part of UK turned over for part of Asia (5)

Following mass movement, tries terms — as in US (10)

Formal male title (7)

French post-Impressionist, d. 1903 (7)

Female feline (7)

French apple (5)

Female swimsuit (6)

For each side upon tumbling meteor (7)

Fuel cell's casing holds ordinary acid, primarily (4)

Fish-scooping waterbird (7)

Feeling less clear over site of recent parties (6,3)

Fight on horseback with no leader to unseat (4)

Forward surge (6)

Fine cord of twisted fibres (4)

Fundamental (8)

Failure in half of London area? (6)

Family member presents gold nugget hollowed out (4)

Food thickener (4)

Flower in front of garden recalled fairy rings (7)

French red wine (8)

Feline (informal) (8)

Following plant surveys, ordered this one? (6,3-4)

Falstaff, say, with bulge not even ready for surgery (8)

Forces repaired artwork on wall (6)

Forming an obstacle or hindrance (2,3,3)

Feeble daughter about to languish (5)

Farewell poker call? (3,3)

Female I rebuke is impervious to a tongue (9)

Feeling of guilt about detective (7)

Following unknown into trap (4)

Following degree study fear (5)

First part of dinner is hot soup, perhaps (4)

Foolhardiness (6)

Frozen precipitation (4)

Fall out! Engage in battle! (5)

From water in the bladder (4)

Fair, fair love in the Lord (6,4)

First spent, extra cash for duty (4)

First of contenders, or enemy beaten — formality (8)

First stage of something (6)

Funfair fruit confection (6,5)

Fully involve (oneself in something) (7)

Fellow cutting crime is one wanting a good time (8)

Figure who's dashing round, pursuing the lady (4)

Fabulous beasts with one ear in sun, gambolling (8)

Friendly and cheerful (6)

Force, oblige (6)

Fiancee (5-2-2)

Flockless shepherdess? (2-4)

Fellow needing time to run (6)

Female endlessly angry about problem with tights? (6)

Fish dish ultimately going wrong (7)

Flurry of snow in top observation post (5,4)

Father returned superfluous tool (7)

Fair where one can no longer go? (4)

Founder of monastic order revered in Spain (9)

Food is popular: stick around (7)

Flinch — fawn (6)

Football legend receives 2 billion for a small stone (6)

Family member that is immersed in new church (5)

Flower seller (7)

Frown, glower (5)

Feature on a country (5)

Fungal infection beginning to weaken otter at sea (3,3)

Fizzy drink has marketing in place (6)

Food storage containers (for those who gave parties?) (10)

Front parts of a rockets (8)

Fast mover, iconic figure: 'Don't like being rejected!' (7)

Found bliss? Hate to differ! (9)

Frenchman's refusal to admit regret back in cell (6)

Freeloader (6-2)

Facts and figures (4)

Feature of theatre role — having boob exposed at the start (8)

Flipping focus to watch sailor boxing CGI-produced lion, say (3,3)

Farewell drink served after five (4)

Fungus in a bulb, light initially extinguished (6)

Former European politician with time to spare (6)

Free ticket for all to see amid revised terms gets to appear adequate (4,6)

French composer keeps finale to another work of parody (6)

Fine — 1971 David Bowie album (5-4; 5,4)

Fruit and pastry dish (5,3)

Field of activity (6)

Ferrets let out in mini jumpers (7)

Focus on the current advocacy of monosyllables? (5-7)

Four-sided tapering pillar (7)

Free lunch a figment, ultimately fabricated (7)

Finish off queen after uprising in African country (5)

Fine linen or cotton (4)

Forerunner of the oboe (8)

Fencing position needs a brief moment — and energy (7)

Funny mineral found in mountain pass (7)

Funny short scene can be downloaded from computer (6,4)

Fluid in fat person due to too much lying? (5,2,4)

Frank makes some spare time (5)

Fraction equal to 12.5% (6)

Foot-operated lever (7)

Fail to pick prize up — fifty in stock (4,1,5)

Female, one in school, is looking humourless (2-5)

Fashionable (1,2,4)

Family bank Spooner dismissed as stupid and silly (3,3,3)

Fury's leader at the end: previously put on ass (6)

Frame of other picture shot round island (6,4)

Father and I with close acquaintance (6)

Flamboyant jumper worn by short male (6)

Fury's beginning to swell after punch that's light (8)

Fortified wine, flavoured with aromatic herbs, drunk as an aperitif (8)

Female relative (4)

French cooking (7)

From now on (10)

Flee in small vehicle with rejected agent (7)

Fits spring on messaging service (6)

Fiddles -- prime requirements for the orchestra, you suspect (4)

Five-sided shape (8)

Floral wreath (7)

French composer of The Carnival of the Animals, first published in 1922 (5-5)

Fan to gain immediate victory (6)

Favouring penny-pinching world leader is a no-no (9)

Fish (associated with a Schubert quintet?) (5)

Father certainly repelled love goddess (5)

Feign reluctance to give reason for theatre closure? (4,4,2,3)

Feet heard to stop for a while (5)

Frantic Yale fugitive not fit, sadly, for such a place (3,6)

Fibre's length unchanged on rotation (5)

Fossil resin used for jewellery (5)

Fine (informal) (5-4)

Fit for purpose (6)

Family diagrams omit school science (10)

Failure of Super League? Football fans to finally riot (5)

Finished receiving commercial success (3,2)

Further shortage in cheap beer causes group despondency (3,6)

First modern battleship, launched 1906 (11)

Far from obese (6)

Farmyard fowl (7)

First man to travel in space (7)

Forsaken, nevertheless reportedly a looker (9)

Fish both ways in the sea (6)

Familiar name for humble member of a large organisation (women only) (8)

Fish missing an hour, going astray (6)

Folklore relayed as truth (urban, perhaps) (4)

For example, interrupting tardy representative (6)

Follower of uniform writer of history? (6)

Figurative expressions translated by 11, 21, and 27, say, apart from first page (6)

First in a certain line, second cutting in — bother! (6)

Firm with a spell in trouble has to fold (8)

Flood in a French department at the end of June (8)

Fireplace furniture (7)

Frond plant (4)

Fluid feeder we left on patio ultimately getting drier (3,5)

Freshly made naan bread dropped by Indians (4)

Footballing 'Foxes' (9,4)

Forward — bold — cheeky (5)

Feeble — son of Widow Twankey (5-5; 5,5)

Fat — limp (6)

Film literally produced down under (7)

From 190 to 135 million years ago (8)

Female voice between soprano and contralto (5-7)

Free trader is stocking Goya, Chagall and Cezanne at last (3,6)

Finish last, beset by flat tire and engine failure, potentially fatal (4-11)

Finally note charity's songs of praise (6)

For example, add young parsnip tips to dish from north Africa? (8)

Find fault with shot when the temperature drops dramatically (5)

Fiddle perhaps somewhat melodramatically (5)

Feline — let coo (anag) (6)

Feathered wake-up caller (7)

Following green light turning, hit red light at the back (3,4)

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