Barmy Kev's fiendish Cryptic Quiz

By Barmy Kev
December 21 2006

To keep your minds active over the festive season, try to deduce these 50 cricketers past and present courtesy of the clues given. No prizes are available apart from personal pride. Please submit entries to mtwdadmin@googlemail.com

Try to solve from these fiendish clues 50 cricketers past and present

 

 

Current

 

 

!/ Disciple from Surrey

 

2/King in centre of stream

 

3/ Envious author leads to tears to your eyes.

 

4/Message understood on the radio with no sound

 

5/  Steal from someone to get into house

 

6Cockney says useful stone should leave.

 

7/Steal short competition with weight.

 

8/A trust breaks community rules

 

9/ Goat is a diety with the French male

 

10/ Calpone is no longer from this royal period

 

11/ Black Adder is a female

 

12/Not max effort to gently strike the Spanish.

 

13/Bills mate is from North of border

 

14/ Sounds like there’s no score when you bring up someone else’s child .

 

15/O’Neill’s team finished last.

 

16/African country wants ex England manager

 

17/Painting finish earlier.

 

18/He can appear with cross, mixed up people

 

19/Primarily a wealthy and tough golfer 

 

 20/Strauss sounds depressed

 

21/Mohammed goes up a step to get a tan

 

22/Embers boy is a dick .

 

23/A stain on slope to gain access to tamper with a shark

 

24/ Excellent victory for British tennis player.     

 

25/Jesus endless effort in coming second amongst the trees.  

   

 

 

 

Past

 

1/ We hear he regularly has success with the opposite sex

 

2/Sounds like I’m a current and ex Sussex player

 

3/Bounce up and down to Bruce

 

 4/Toilet handle

 

5/Snail is fortunate for World cup scorer.

 

6/Rainbow character refuses to turn up

 

7/Old Sit Com star Penny makes arrows

 

8/Weapon taken to Aussie resort

 

9/Rat sells meat

 

10/Minor County was told “of course you can”

 

11/Famous Painter vehicle is followed by the German’s rubbish

 

12/Beg as Sorry collapse

 

13/Lift up county

 

14/Del Boy has the entire South African money

 

15/ My muddled brain is near

 

16/The German car is roadworthy for Superman.

 

17/ Sounds like the brush has dropped a sitter using half of Duckworth and Lewis

 

18/Bird is a sailor boy

 

19/A faint edge Sir

 

20/Old Prime Minister is short

 

21/Clever Rhyme not worth much

 

22/Not likely to make a noise

 

23/Saint level crossing to Greek Island

 

24/ Sounds like you want more people in Welsh town

 

25/ A local area network on the edge