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Cryptic NAMES Quiz - please can anyone help me with the answers?

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Janaih · 24/04/2020 19:15

A friend of mine forwarded me this quiz, however she annoyingly doesn't have the answers. Any help would be most welcome please! I've got about half, dont think I'll get any more now.

I've pasted in full to credit the original author

Sarah Firth’s
Quarantine Quiz
All the answers in this quiz are boys’ or girls’ names.
The clues may be straightforward or cryptic.
Sometimes the clue will lead directly to a name, but some might be sound-alikes.

No prizes this time – just for fun and to stave off the isolation blues!
Please feel free to e-mail onwards to friends and family.

1 Plain-spoken (5)
2 Two magpies (3)
3 Knife (7)
4 High street saint (7)
5 Scottish peak (3)
6 Apparently, the happiest person (5)
7 Welsh port (5)
8 Savings plan (5)
9 Exists as a chiming object (6)
10 Stirred rice (4)
11 Patron saint of travellers (11)
12 Daybreak (4)
13 Haystack (4)
14 April in Paris (5)
15 Daily round (5)
16 She falls in Africa (8)
17 Culinary herbs (5) and (8)
18 Goddess of the hunt (5)
19 City in Italy (8)
20 Colour of the rainbow (6)
21 Brain teaser (5)
22 Occupation (3)
23 Nottinghamshire town (6)
24 Message received (5)
25 Baked dessert, often in layers (9)
26 One not wanted in hair (5)
27 Circumspection (8)
28 Merciful (7)
29 Disturbed limey (5)
30 Breed of sheep (5)
31 Take something illegally (4)
32 Emerald (5)
33 Liquid measure (4)
34 European Lake (9)
35 The Spanish weight (5)
36 Musical or biscuit from Aquae Sulis (6)
37 Worry or ravage (5)
38 Australian Lake (6)
39 Little house (5)
40 A mother he never had (4)
41 Strong wind (4)
42 Pick one up for luck (5)
43 Puppet island (6)
44 Take it when teasing (5)
45 Winner (6)
46 One easily cheated (5)
47 Heard his hair was closely cut (4 or 5)
48 Unit of electrical inductance (5)
49 Code word for the 10th letter (6)
50 Sound of silk or dried leaves (7)
51 Small ball to aid mechanic (4)
52 City, 34ºS 152ºE (6)
53 Sincere (6)
54 Browbeat or torment (6)
55 She has all the accessories (6)
56 Perennial grass (7)
57 It’s heartless to be without her (4)
58 Royally thrash cereal crop? (8)
59 Young kangaroo (4)
60 Female donkey in a spin (5)
61 Hear a name (6)
62 See gentle scarlet, hear fear of factory (7)
63 Cold war check point ( 7)
64 Smile about the distance (5)
65 Superhero’s sidekick (5)
66 An oil rig, I hear (5)
67 Musical girl twice refused (7)
68 Manx capital (7)
69 Soccer team (7)
70 Utter happiness (8)
71 Strata exposed (5)
72 Bestow on student (5)
73 US theatre award (4)
74 Female palindrome (6)
75 Wander about (6)
76 Small shell-shaped sponge cake (9)
77 Suffix (3)
78 Statuette (5)
79 American toilet (4)
80 Fruit (10)
81 The sound of genuflection (4)
82 Type of impure quartz (6)
83 Martial arts grade (3)
84 Obsolete German currency (4)
85 Jug (4)
86 Two hedgerow trees (5) and (5)
87 Road roundabout (4)
88 Skateboard trick (5)
89 To run out (5)
90 Effigy (3)
91 Burst forth into battle (5)
92 Beam of light (3)
93 Short kind of watch chain (6)
94 English folk dance (8)
95 Christmas song (5)
96 Elegance of movement (5)
97 A pool of money (5)
98 Place to exercise (3)
99 Coloured part of the eye (4)
100 ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (4)

OP posts:
Br1ll1ant · 24/04/2020 19:17

100 is Noelle

Ceebeegee · 24/04/2020 19:19

23Nottinghamshire town (6)
Arnold

Ceebeegee · 24/04/2020 19:20

96Elegance of movement (5) Grace
98Place to exercise (3)Jim
99Coloured part of the eye (4) Iris

BBBear · 24/04/2020 19:25

2 Joy
11 Christopher
12 Dawn

BBBear · 24/04/2020 19:27

83 Dan
84 Mark
92 Ray

vampirethriller · 24/04/2020 19:27

36 Oliver

vampirethriller · 24/04/2020 19:28

94 Morris

BBBear · 24/04/2020 19:29

65 Robin
73 Emmy
76 Madeleine

AristotlesTrousers · 24/04/2020 19:29

Could No.4 be Michael?

vampirethriller · 24/04/2020 19:29

94 is not Morris sorry 😣😂

AdaColeman · 24/04/2020 19:30

55 Claire
85 Toby
95 Carol
60 Jenny
92 Ray
50 Russel
84 Mark
1 Jane
70 Joy
76 Madeleine
53 Verity

AristotlesTrousers · 24/04/2020 19:30

No.10 could be Eric?

AristotlesTrousers · 24/04/2020 19:31
  1. Possibly Brian.
Alarae · 24/04/2020 19:31

5 Ben

(Is Ben Nevis in Scotland?!)

BBBear · 24/04/2020 19:31

20 Violet
31 Nick

Blueroses99 · 24/04/2020 19:32

6 Larry
10 Eric
20 Violet

iklboo · 24/04/2020 19:32

1 is Frank

AristotlesTrousers · 24/04/2020 19:32

99 is Iris

preponderings · 24/04/2020 19:32

6 Felix

AristotlesTrousers · 24/04/2020 19:32

81 is Neil

iklboo · 24/04/2020 19:33

47 is Sean / Shaun

preponderings · 24/04/2020 19:33

14 Avril?

IDefinitelyHaveFriends · 24/04/2020 19:35

4 Michael
9 Isabel

IDefinitelyHaveFriends · 24/04/2020 19:36

78 Oscar

iklboo · 24/04/2020 19:36

98 - Jim