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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:
iklboo · 24/04/2020 19:37

19 Florence

carben · 24/04/2020 19:37
  1. Barry
carben · 24/04/2020 19:38
  1. Diana
carben · 24/04/2020 19:39
  1. Job
AristotleAteMyHamster · 24/04/2020 19:39

14 Avril
17 Basil & Rosemary
29 Emily
32 Beryl
45 Victor
59 Joey
74 Hannah
78 Oscar
79 John

AdaColeman · 24/04/2020 19:40

8 Tessa
80 Clementine
18 Diana
67 Nanette
36 Oliver

AristotleAteMyHamster · 24/04/2020 19:40

73 is Tony not Emmy

carben · 24/04/2020 19:40
  1. Tracey
AdaColeman · 24/04/2020 19:41

74 Anna

AristotleAteMyHamster · 24/04/2020 19:41

And 63 is Charlie

AdaColeman · 24/04/2020 19:43

57 Ruth

carben · 24/04/2020 19:47

49 Juliet
90. Guy

EggysMom · 24/04/2020 19:47

52 Sydney

EggysMom · 24/04/2020 19:48

66 Deryk

bloodywhitecat · 24/04/2020 19:49
  1. Gail (Gale)?
iklboo · 24/04/2020 19:50

Sorry to be pedantic to the quiz setter but 43 is Tracy, no 'e' (totally not the daughter of a Thundergeek) Grin

LeaveItBarbara · 24/04/2020 19:50
  1. Victoria
LeaveItBarbara · 24/04/2020 19:51
  1. Peter
AdaColeman · 24/04/2020 19:51

13 Rick

AdaColeman · 24/04/2020 19:53

19 Florence

DuckonaBike · 24/04/2020 19:55

92 Ray
95. Carol
97 Kitty

AdaColeman · 24/04/2020 19:56

25 Charlotte

notchickenagain · 24/04/2020 19:56
  1. Mac
16. Victoria 24. Roger 26. Alice 33. Gill 35 Elton 41. Gail 44. Mickey
Janaih · 24/04/2020 19:56

You guys are awesome :) thanks keep them coming!

OP posts:
NetballHoop · 24/04/2020 19:57

So many... hard to see which ones have been answered.
43 is Tracy
59 is Joey
79 is John