Scoundrel |
Newsday |
28 Aug 2025 |
Rotter deserts love having accepted ring |
The Times Cryptic |
15 Aug 2025 |
Unpleasant person smooths over old charges |
The Telegraph Toughie |
13 Aug 2025 |
Average sandwiches and bad egg |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Aug 2025 |
Blighter, boy having stolen a medal (2-3-2) |
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Such-and-such (2-3-2) |
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No-good no name |
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Unnamed person, moreover, in mediocre surroundings (2-3-2) |
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A person who is unidentified or unpleasant |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
25 May 2025 |
Despicable individual as well in mediocre setting (2-3-2) |
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No-good rascal |
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"What's-his-name" found in 20-, 25, 43 and 49-Across |
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Good-for-nothing person |
Newsday |
23 Apr 2025 |
Unspecified person (inf) (2-3-2) |
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Enemy to remain nameless (2-3-2) |
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Disliked figure indifferent about a northern director (2,3,2) |
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Rascal thus meets another? (2-3-2) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
04 Mar 2025 |
Repeatedly stitch up outspoken rascal (2-3-2) |
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Creep showing how to describe what's average in two words? (2-3-2) |
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No-goodnik |
New York Times |
30 Dec 2024 |
Nobody in particular (hyph.) |
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Sounds like what the seamstress did to be a nasty sort (2,3,2) |
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Odious person (2-3-2) |
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Unspecified person (hyph.) |
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What you need for average person (2-3-2) |
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Such and such a person (2-3-2) |
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Little rascal making son a sod! (2-3-2) |
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As a consequence, accompanying oddly slow pain in the neck |
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Scoundrel |
Newsday |
21 Jul 2024 |
An unspecified person or thing, sometimes used in a derogatory way |
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Annoying person (2-3-2) |
The Guardian Speedy |
07 Jul 2024 |
Name used for someone unspecified or unknown (2-3-2) |
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Unspeakable person (2-3-2) |
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Rascal, imp |
The Times Concise |
26 Jun 2024 |
Scoundrel |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Jun 2024 |
Rotter thus meeting another? |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Jun 2024 |
Blighter got drunk on sodas (2-3-2) |
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Stitch up noisy, nasty person? (2-3-2) |
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Person whose name is forgotten (2-3-2) |
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Similarly Don's a strange person regarded as difficult (2,3,2) |
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Person heartily disliked |
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Darn! Darn noisy what's-his-name (2-3-2) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
23 Apr 2024 |
Darn! Darn noisy what's-hisname (2-3-2) |
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Bastard offspring stealing a gallantry medal |
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Unnamed person to keep on planting seed, we hear (2-3-2) |
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What's-his-name (hyph.) |
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Unpleasant or difficult person |
Mirror Tea Time |
05 Feb 2024 |
Scoundrel soon sad after beating |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Jan 2024 |
Disliked person |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Jan 2024 |
Two notes from an awkward customer (2-3-2) |
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Indescribably awful person |
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Difficult person is starting to sell synthetic doonas (2-3-2) |
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Nuisance calls for help, two being cut short |
The Telegraph Toughie |
10 Nov 2023 |
'Such-and-such,' but for names |
USA Today |
30 Jan 2023 |
Real blankety-blank |
LA Times Daily |
14 Dec 2022 |
An annoying person in these two ways? |
The Guardian Cryptic |
10 Oct 2022 |
Name better left unsaid, or a description of the answers to the starred clues |
LA Times Daily |
05 Sep 2022 |
Report work in a sweatshop with vulgar type |
Irish Times Crosaire |
18 Dec 2021 |
An opening for dramatics claimed by average awkward person |
The Telegraph Toughie |
07 Oct 2021 |
No-goodnik |
Premier Sunday |
03 Oct 2021 |
Unnamed somebody |
New York Times |
20 Jun 2021 |
Scoundrel soon sad after beating |
The Sun Two Speed |
09 Jun 2021 |
Disliked person |
The Sun Two Speed |
09 Jun 2021 |
Nuisance also seen in fair |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Jun 2021 |
Son-of-a-gun |
LA Times Daily |
21 Mar 2021 |
Son-of-a-gun |
The Washington Post |
21 Mar 2021 |
Report work in a sweatshop with vulgar type |
Irish Times Crosaire |
30 Jan 2021 |
Scoundrel |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Dec 2020 |
Pain accordingly doubled? |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Dec 2020 |
Scoundrel |
The Washington Post |
01 Nov 2020 |
Scoundrel |
LA Times Daily |
01 Nov 2020 |
Stinker |
LA Times Daily |
19 Oct 2020 |
Stinker |
The Washington Post |
19 Oct 2020 |
No-goodnik |
New York Times |
19 Oct 2020 |
Pain accordingly doubled? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Aug 2020 |
Unnamed person |
USA Today |
12 Jul 2020 |
Rotter thus meeting another? |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 May 2020 |
No good, dirty scoundrel: Hyph. |
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Really pretty housing with cheeky character |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
24 Apr 2020 |
Name placeholder |
USA Today |
22 Feb 2020 |
Jerk |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Feb 2020 |
This or that (person or thing): stinker |
The Guardian Speedy |
19 Jan 2020 |
That (expletive deleted) person with respectable clothes |
The Telegraph Toughie |
26 Nov 2019 |
No-goodnik |
USA Today |
18 Sep 2019 |
Say what tireless seamstresses do for rotter? |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Aug 2019 |
Scoundrel (informal) |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Aug 2019 |
Old what's-his-name |
Universal |
31 Jul 2019 |
Blankety-blank type |
The Washington Post |
26 Jul 2019 |
Blankety-blank type |
LA Times Daily |
26 Jul 2019 |
Son of a gun |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Jul 2019 |
Dirty rat |
USA Today |
28 Mar 2019 |
Name better left unsaid, or a literal hint to what the starred answers contain |
Wall Street Journal |
20 Mar 2019 |
No-goodnik |
Universal |
16 Mar 2019 |
This or that person or thing |
The Times Concise |
20 Feb 2019 |
Rotter thus with another? |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Jan 2019 |
Dirty rat |
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Blankety-blank type |
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Name better left unsaid, or a literal hint to what the starred answers contain |
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Son of a gun |
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No-goodnik |
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Old what's-his-name |
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No-goodnik |
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Scoundrel |
Eugene Sheffer |
05 Dec 2018 |
S.O.B |
New York Times |
10 Aug 2018 |
Skunk |
Newsday |
28 Jul 2018 |
Rotter soon sad after upset |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Jul 2018 |
Rascal thus meets another? |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Mar 2018 |
Unnamed person |
The Sun Two Speed |
10 Mar 2018 |
Difficult person like this -- again! |
The Telegraph Toughie |
24 Jan 2018 |
Scoundrel |
Newsday |
07 Jan 2018 |
No-goodnik |
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S.O.B. |
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Unspecified person |
The Times Concise |
21 Sep 2017 |
Scoundrel |
New York Times |
19 Sep 2017 |
Good-for-nothing |
Newsday |
18 Jun 2017 |
Stinker |
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No-goodnik |
Family Time |
01 Jan 2017 |
Scoundrel |
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One who shall not be named |
Newsday |
03 Sep 2016 |
Nuisance gives needle repeatedly when talking |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
02 Jul 2016 |
Scoundrel |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Apr 2016 |
Dirty rat |
LA Times Daily |
12 Mar 2016 |
Difficult person not too bad, joiner in |
The Times Cryptic |
24 Jun 2015 |
Dirty rat |
Wall Street Journal |
15 May 2015 |
Dirty rat or dirty dog |
Universal |
22 Jan 2015 |
Dirty rat or dirty dog |
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Dirty rat |
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Son-of-a-gun |
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What's-his-face |
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Rascal |
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Minced epithet |
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Nameless scoundrel |
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All-purpose moniker |
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"What's-his-name" |
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Scoundrel |
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No-goodnik |
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Despicable one |
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What's-her-name |
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Good-for-nothing |
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What's-her-name |
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All-purpose moniker |
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Jerk |
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What's-his-face |
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Rat |
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Scoundrel |
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Dirty rat |
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Blankety-blank type |
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No-goodnik |
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Son-of-a-gun |
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Skunk |
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Nameless scoundrel |
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No-goodnik |
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Son of a gun |
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Jerk |
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Sleazebag |
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Dirty dog, as it were |
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What's-his-name |
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Dirty dog, as it were |
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One who shall remain nameless |
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What's-his-face |
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Scoundrel |
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Skunk |
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Scoundrel |
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Disagreeable person |
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Scoundrel |
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Some #@%*& individual |
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Scoundrel |
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[expletive deleted] person |
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Rogue |
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No-goodnik |
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Dirty rat |
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What's-his-name |
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[expletive deleted] person |
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Dirty rat |
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Dadblasted person |
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What's-his-name |
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Dirty rat or dirty dog |
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Dirty rat |
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Stinker |
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Son of a gun |
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Dirty rat |
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Nasty unmentionable |
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Whoosis |
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Nebulous person |
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John Doe or Richard Roe |
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Joe Doakes |
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Epithet of sorts |
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What's-his-name |
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Blankety-blank's kin |
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Unidentified one |
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Blankety-blank. |
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Unspecified person. |
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Unnamed person |
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Real S.O.B. |
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An unnamed person or thing. |
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Imaginary person. |
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Unnamed one. |
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Nobody in particular |
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