| Polite term for something unpleasant (9) |
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| Mum's pie he digests with a genteel word (9) |
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| Curiously see him take up mobile language (9) |
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| Polite term |
The Times Concise |
01 May 2022 |
| Getting on for ninety perhaps? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
10 Dec 2021 |
| Memphis rocked after Elvis's first high-class number one, say |
The Telegraph Toughie |
20 Oct 2021 |
| Inoffensive term used in place of one considered offensive |
Irish Times Simplex |
14 Oct 2021 |
| Indirect expression |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Jan 2021 |
| One's left us for dead |
The Sun Two Speed |
24 Jan 2021 |
| Substitute is excited, on edge in volatile semi |
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| One's left us for dead? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
18 Jul 2020 |
| One's put to sleep |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Dec 2019 |
| Inoffensive term used in place of one considered offensive |
Irish Times Simplex |
28 Nov 2019 |
| One's left us for dead |
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| “Senior” rather than “old”, or “in an interesting condition” meaning “pregnant” |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
18 Aug 2019 |
| It means sex in this pub — I see mum hustling outside |
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| Delicate choice of terminology, possibly making me use Phi, mark |
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| Inoffensive expression substituted for one that may be offensive |
Irish Times Simplex |
14 Jul 2017 |
| Polite expression for you being against heartless feminism, we hear |
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| Mum's EP he and I palmed off using polite term |
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| Inoffensive term |
The Telegraph Quick |
30 Jan 2016 |
| Crumbling empire turning to mush after king kicked the bucket, for instance |
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| Mum's pie - he used a polite term |
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| Mum's pie – he used a polite term |
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| Out of bed, on edge, in renovated semi: it's one for sex |
The Times Cryptic |
22 Jan 2015 |
| Softener of a kind |
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| Left for dead, for example |
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| It's a nice way to say something |
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| Heck or darn, e.g. |
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| "The Green Mile," literarily |
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| "Blankety-blank," for example |
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| Egad, e.g. |
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