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cacodemon (16 points)
Shakespearean nightmare
Come and dance, keeping company with the devil
Running water stifles means of communication concerning evil spirit
C·3+A·1+C·3+O·1+D·2+E·1+M·3+O·1+N·1 = 16 pts
caecilian (13 points)
""Any of various legless, burrowing, wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona, of tropical regions.""
C·3+A·1+E·1+C·3+I·1+L·1+I·1+A·1+N·1 = 13 pts
caesarean (11 points)
Delivery for Julian (wordplay)
Surgical birth (Var.)
Like "Et tu, Brute?"
C·3+A·1+E·1+S·1+A·1+R·1+E·1+A·1+N·1 = 11 pts
caesarian (11 points)
Relating to Brutus' victim (Var.)
Pertaining to Gaius Julius
Re some Roman emperors
C·3+A·1+E·1+S·1+A·1+R·1+I·1+A·1+N·1 = 11 pts
cameraman (15 points)
Snappy judge (wordplay)
TV station employee
Hollywood V. I. P.
C·3+A·1+M·3+E·1+R·1+A·1+M·3+A·1+N·1 = 15 pts
cameramen (15 points)
Movie shooters (wordplay)
Photographers arrived with noodles
They ride the dolly.
C·3+A·1+M·3+E·1+R·1+A·1+M·3+E·1+N·1 = 15 pts
candlepin (14 points)
Small-ball bowling target
Target for some keglers
*Boston bowler's target
C·3+A·1+N·1+D·2+L·1+E·1+P·3+I·1+N·1 = 14 pts
caparison (13 points)
Perhaps dressages for the horses
Read about a capital way to dress well
Rich cloth laid over a warhorse
C·3+A·1+P·3+A·1+R·1+I·1+S·1+O·1+N·1 = 13 pts
capsaicin (15 points)
""A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity. Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.""
C·3+A·1+P·3+S·1+A·1+I·1+C·3+I·1+N·1 = 15 pts
carbanion (13 points)
An anion in which carbon carries a negative charge and an unshared pair of electrons.
C·3+A·1+R·1+B·3+A·1+N·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 13 pts
caretaken (15 points)
Caretake
C·3+A·1+R·1+E·1+T·1+A·1+K·5+E·1+N·1 = 15 pts
carnation (11 points)
America perhaps, after auto plant
What a blooming mechanical people!
Country estate perhaps first in bloom
C·3+A·1+R·1+N·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
carnelian (11 points)
Did Inca learn of this gem (wordplay)
Red cross member (wordplay)
Variety of quartz
C·3+A·1+R·1+N·1+E·1+L·1+I·1+A·1+N·1 = 11 pts
carrageen (12 points)
Mini modified genera of seaweed
Purplish-red, edible seaweed
Purplish-red North Atlantic seaweed
C·3+A·1+R·1+R·1+A·1+G·2+E·1+E·1+N·1 = 12 pts
caseation (11 points)
A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.
C·3+A·1+S·1+E·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
castellan (11 points)
Governor of a fortress
Warden in a medieval stronghold.
For one running keep tin of beer (wordplay)
C·3+A·1+S·1+T·1+E·1+L·1+L·1+A·1+N·1 = 11 pts
catamaran (13 points)
Boat for felines (wordplay)
America's Cup winner, perhaps
Feline boat (wordplay)
C·3+A·1+T·1+A·1+M·3+A·1+R·1+A·1+N·1 = 13 pts
cathepsin (16 points)
Any of various proteolytic enzymes found in animal tissue that catalyze the hydrolysis of proteins into polypeptides.
C·3+A·1+T·1+H·4+E·1+P·3+S·1+I·1+N·1 = 16 pts
cattleman (13 points)
Neat fellow on the ranch (wordplay)
Ben Cartwright, for one
Shepherd's nemesis, in many oaters
C·3+A·1+T·1+T·1+L·1+E·1+M·3+A·1+N·1 = 13 pts
cattlemen (13 points)
Characters in "Old Arizona."
The sound of their work may be heard
Prime factors in the meat situation.
C·3+A·1+T·1+T·1+L·1+E·1+M·3+E·1+N·1 = 13 pts
causation (11 points)
Reason why
Why one thing leads to another (wordplay)
Effect producer
C·3+A·1+U·1+S·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
celloidin (12 points)
A pure form of pyroxylin in which specimens for microscopic examination are embedded.
C·3+E·1+L·1+L·1+O·1+I·1+D·2+I·1+N·1 = 12 pts
centurion (11 points)
Man of 18 (wordplay)
Roman army commander
Roman army officer
C·3+E·1+N·1+T·1+U·1+R·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
cessation (11 points)
Stopping canoeists capsizing
Process of ending
The ending or being brought to an end
C·3+E·1+S·1+S·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
chalazion (23 points)
""A tumour of the eyelid, pl CHALAZIONS or CHALAZIA""
C·3+H·4+A·1+L·1+A·1+Z·10+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 23 pts
chalcogen (17 points)
""(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) any of the elements oxygen, sulphur, selenium, tellurium, or polonium, of group 6A of the periodic table [from chalco ( pyrite ) + -gen ]""
C·3+H·4+A·1+L·1+C·3+O·1+G·2+E·1+N·1 = 17 pts
chameleon (16 points)
Lizard hard for animal to eat (wild one)
Quick change artist (wordplay)
Lizard able to change its skin colour
C·3+H·4+A·1+M·3+E·1+L·1+E·1+O·1+N·1 = 16 pts
champaign (19 points)
University town in east central Illinois
Victor contrived gain in old country
Hospital used during manoeuvres in open country
C·3+H·4+A·1+M·3+P·3+A·1+I·1+G·2+N·1 = 19 pts
charlatan (14 points)
Flamboyant deceiver, mountebank
Quack, fraud, a flamboyant deceiver
Cleaner's mostly slow, and an imposter
C·3+H·4+A·1+R·1+L·1+A·1+T·1+A·1+N·1 = 14 pts
charwoman (19 points)
Tea-lady appears daily
Office building cleaner
Cleaner nation under fish wife
C·3+H·4+A·1+R·1+W·4+O·1+M·3+A·1+N·1 = 19 pts
charwomen (19 points)
Some cleaners
Cleaning ladies
Cleaners.
C·3+H·4+A·1+R·1+W·4+O·1+M·3+E·1+N·1 = 19 pts
chatelain (14 points)
The master of a castle; a castellan.
C·3+H·4+A·1+T·1+E·1+L·1+A·1+I·1+N·1 = 14 pts
chawbacon (21 points)
'Half a dozen grinning -s watching him (Richard Jefferies, Green Ferne Farm)
C·3+H·4+A·1+W·4+B·3+A·1+C·3+O·1+N·1 = 21 pts
checkrein (20 points)
A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; called also a bearing rein. bearing rein.
C·3+H·4+E·1+C·3+K·5+R·1+E·1+I·1+N·1 = 20 pts
chelation (14 points)
The process of removing a heavy metal from a solution by means of a chelate;
C·3+H·4+E·1+L·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 14 pts
chelonian (14 points)
Hen Nicola chopped up for reptile
C·3+H·4+E·1+L·1+O·1+N·1+I·1+A·1+N·1 = 14 pts
chieftain (17 points)
Emir or raja
Leading man's changing it, if he can
One newt in file is the leader
C·3+H·4+I·1+E·1+F·4+T·1+A·1+I·1+N·1 = 17 pts
chilblain (16 points)
A chap on foot (wordplay)
Painful swelling brought on by cold
Painful swelling in winter
C·3+H·4+I·1+L·1+B·3+L·1+A·1+I·1+N·1 = 16 pts
chinkapin (20 points)
Chestnut tree Var.
Chestnut tree variable
C·3+H·4+I·1+N·1+K·5+A·1+P·3+I·1+N·1 = 20 pts
chromatin (16 points)
Order discovered in laboratory animal in feature which contains DNA
C·3+H·4+R·1+O·1+M·3+A·1+T·1+I·1+N·1 = 16 pts
chromogen (17 points)
Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.
C·3+H·4+R·1+O·1+M·3+O·1+G·2+E·1+N·1 = 17 pts
chthonian (17 points)
Of the underworld
C·3+H·4+T·1+H·4+O·1+N·1+I·1+A·1+N·1 = 17 pts
churchman (21 points)
Ecclesiastic
C·3+H·4+U·1+R·1+C·3+H·4+M·3+A·1+N·1 = 21 pts
churchmen (21 points)
CHURCH to bring to a building for Christian worship
C·3+H·4+U·1+R·1+C·3+H·4+M·3+E·1+N·1 = 21 pts
ciliation (11 points)
CILIATE a class of protozoans
C·3+I·1+L·1+I·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
circadian (14 points)
Of daily biological processes
C·3+I·1+R·1+C·3+A·1+D·2+I·1+A·1+N·1 = 14 pts
cisplatin (13 points)
""A platinum-containing chemotherapeutic drug, Cl 2 H 6 N 2 Pt, used in the treatment of metastatic ovarian or testicular cancers and advanced bladder cancer.""
C·3+I·1+S·1+P·3+L·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+N·1 = 13 pts
clampdown (19 points)
Get a grip (wordplay)
Attempt at suppression
Attempt to suppress something
C·3+L·1+A·1+M·3+P·3+D·2+O·1+W·4+N·1 = 19 pts
clergyman (17 points)
Is he in a service industry (wordplay)
My clanger about the vicar (wordplay)
Person of the cloth
C·3+L·1+E·1+R·1+G·2+Y·4+M·3+A·1+N·1 = 17 pts
clergymen (17 points)
Cloth workers (wordplay)
Revs may have them in masses 99)
Spiritual leaders of a Christian Church
C·3+L·1+E·1+R·1+G·2+Y·4+M·3+E·1+N·1 = 17 pts
clinician (13 points)
Doctor treating patients
Doctor working directly with patients
Workshop giver
C·3+L·1+I·1+N·1+I·1+C·3+I·1+A·1+N·1 = 13 pts
closedown (15 points)
Shut completely, perhaps a business
Near to getting depressed? Gets wind up!
Secretive and depressed, stop operating
C·3+L·1+O·1+S·1+E·1+D·2+O·1+W·4+N·1 = 15 pts
cnidarian (12 points)
Box jellyfish or sea anemone, for example
C·3+N·1+I·1+D·2+A·1+R·1+I·1+A·1+N·1 = 12 pts
coalition (11 points)
Alliance to adopt fossil fuel, perhaps
The alliance of carbonisation, perhaps
Group of allies
C·3+O·1+A·1+L·1+I·1+T·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
cobalamin (15 points)
See vitamin B .
C·3+O·1+B·3+A·1+L·1+A·1+M·3+I·1+N·1 = 15 pts
cocaptain (15 points)
Continental title
C·3+O·1+C·3+A·1+P·3+T·1+A·1+I·1+N·1 = 15 pts
cognation (12 points)
Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.
C·3+O·1+G·2+N·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 12 pts
cognition (12 points)
Knowledge - incognito (anagram)
Knowledge - no to icing (anagram)
Faculty of knowing while incognito
C·3+O·1+G·2+N·1+I·1+T·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 12 pts
colcannon (13 points)
Irish cabbage, potato dish
Pass priest eating Northern Irish food
Cabbage mashed with potatoes
C·3+O·1+L·1+C·3+A·1+N·1+N·1+O·1+N·1 = 13 pts
collation (11 points)
Making a meal of Lolita con (wordplay)
Fast food (wordplay)
Putting in sequence
C·3+O·1+L·1+L·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
collegian (12 points)
Student pass many picked up
Fisk attendee, for example
Student makes Colorado member confront Scotsman
C·3+O·1+L·1+L·1+E·1+G·2+I·1+A·1+N·1 = 12 pts
collision (11 points)
Violent meeting of objects
Course drivers should avoid
Course to avoid
C·3+O·1+L·1+L·1+I·1+S·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
collodion (12 points)
""A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a containing for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography.""
C·3+O·1+L·1+L·1+O·1+D·2+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 12 pts
collusion (11 points)
Secret or illegal conspiracy to deceive
Secret cooperation
Secret deception
C·3+O·1+L·1+L·1+U·1+S·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
commotion (15 points)
Public disorder
Disorderly outburst
Conservative proposal about honour causing uproar
C·3+O·1+M·3+M·3+O·1+T·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 15 pts
communion (15 points)
Act of participating in the Eucharist
Sharing of spiritual feelings
Mass consumption that's common around university
C·3+O·1+M·3+M·3+U·1+N·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 15 pts
companion (15 points)
Mate (maybe of honour!)
Person who lives or travels with you
One of the gang
C·3+O·1+M·3+P·3+A·1+N·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 15 pts
concision (13 points)
Terseness
C·3+O·1+N·1+C·3+I·1+S·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 13 pts
condition (12 points)
Provision for one's health
Part of an agreement
State one's requirement
C·3+O·1+N·1+D·2+I·1+T·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 12 pts
confusion (14 points)
Averse to an alliance (wordplay)
Study nuclear process in chaos
What a blow to the head might cause
C·3+O·1+N·1+F·4+U·1+S·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 14 pts
connexion (18 points)
Relationship: Brit. sp
A relationship: Eng. spelling.
Relationship Brit. sp.
C·3+O·1+N·1+N·1+E·1+X·8+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 18 pts
constrain (11 points)
Hold back - non-racist (anagram)
Restrict scope of (an activity)
Prison conveyance (wordplay)
C·3+O·1+N·1+S·1+T·1+R·1+A·1+I·1+N·1 = 11 pts
contagion (12 points)
Liquid coating on a virus maybe
It can go on spreading disease
Common epidemic factor
C·3+O·1+N·1+T·1+A·1+G·2+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 12 pts
contusion (11 points)
Blemish beneath skin of onions cut out
This brews, by the sound of it.
Discoloration of skin of onions cut in pieces
C·3+O·1+N·1+T·1+U·1+S·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
cornelian (11 points)
Banal piece by essayist? It's a gem
Dull red stone; lone cairn (anagram)
July birthstone
C·3+O·1+R·1+N·1+E·1+L·1+I·1+A·1+N·1 = 11 pts
cornerman (13 points)
English word
C·3+O·1+R·1+N·1+E·1+R·1+M·3+A·1+N·1 = 13 pts
cornermen (13 points)
CORNER to gain control of
C·3+O·1+R·1+N·1+E·1+R·1+M·3+E·1+N·1 = 13 pts
corrasion (11 points)
""The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water.""
C·3+O·1+R·1+R·1+A·1+S·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
corrosion (11 points)
Something worn on a hood
Rust, for example
Chemical process of metal erosion
C·3+O·1+R·1+R·1+O·1+S·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
cotillion (11 points)
Lively French social dance
Deb's ball
C eighteen dance
C·3+O·1+T·1+I·1+L·1+L·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
cotyledon (15 points)
NCO old, yet turned over a new leaf
C·3+O·1+T·1+Y·4+L·1+E·1+D·2+O·1+N·1 = 15 pts
countdown (15 points)
Missile launching procedure.
New Year's Eve tally
Stop at nothing
C·3+O·1+U·1+N·1+T·1+D·2+O·1+W·4+N·1 = 15 pts
courtesan (11 points)
She's seduced no curates (wordplay)
No curates get mixed up with her!
No curates should take her out
C·3+O·1+U·1+R·1+T·1+E·1+S·1+A·1+N·1 = 11 pts
cowritten (14 points)
Like many screenplays
Like Rodgers/Hart songs
Like Lennon/McCartney songs
C·3+O·1+W·4+R·1+I·1+T·1+T·1+E·1+N·1 = 14 pts
crackdown (21 points)
Expert depressed by repressive measures
Repressive action taken
Newly appointed disciplinarian's measure
C·3+R·1+A·1+C·3+K·5+D·2+O·1+W·4+N·1 = 21 pts
cracksman (19 points)
... joker that breaks in (wordplay)
The burglar works out on the island
Burglar jokes with servant
C·3+R·1+A·1+C·3+K·5+S·1+M·3+A·1+N·1 = 19 pts
cracksmen (19 points)
CRACKS crack
C·3+R·1+A·1+C·3+K·5+S·1+M·3+E·1+N·1 = 19 pts
craftsman (16 points)
Boatyard worker (wordplay)
Skilled sailor (wordplay)
Expert shipwright (wordplay)
C·3+R·1+A·1+F·4+T·1+S·1+M·3+A·1+N·1 = 16 pts
craftsmen (16 points)
Males with manual skills
Males with skill in the manual arts
Manual workers with great skill
C·3+R·1+A·1+F·4+T·1+S·1+M·3+E·1+N·1 = 16 pts
cremation (13 points)
Burning (of a body)
Disposal of last atom in life (wordplay)
A burning romance somehow holds it back
C·3+R·1+E·1+M·3+A·1+T·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 13 pts
crenation (11 points)
A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.
C·3+R·1+E·1+N·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
criterion (11 points)
Swimsuit competition for one
Swimsuit competition for one
Where to play Touchstone (wordplay)
C·3+R·1+I·1+T·1+E·1+R·1+I·1+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
crosstown (14 points)
Traversing Waltham, say
EastWest in Manhattan.
East-West in Manhattan.
C·3+R·1+O·1+S·1+S·1+T·1+O·1+W·4+N·1 = 14 pts
custodian (12 points)
Protector/guardian (of something)
He takes care to get a discount, perhaps
Keeper of keys
C·3+U·1+S·1+T·1+O·1+D·2+I·1+A·1+N·1 = 12 pts
cyclopean (18 points)
Vast empty city with no place to settle
Gigantic.
Massive
C·3+Y·4+C·3+L·1+O·1+P·3+E·1+A·1+N·1 = 18 pts
cyclotron (16 points)
Physicist's accelerator
Particle-accelerating machine
Apparatus accelerating particles
C·3+Y·4+C·3+L·1+O·1+T·1+R·1+O·1+N·1 = 16 pts
cytokinin (18 points)
Any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and growth and delay the senescence of leaves.
C·3+Y·4+T·1+O·1+K·5+I·1+N·1+I·1+N·1 = 18 pts
cytolysin (17 points)
""A substance, such as an antibody, capable of dissolving or destroying cells.""
C·3+Y·4+T·1+O·1+L·1+Y·4+S·1+I·1+N·1 = 17 pts
cytotoxin (21 points)
A substance having a specific toxic effect on certain cells.
C·3+Y·4+T·1+O·1+T·1+O·1+X·8+I·1+N·1 = 21 pts

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