The Guardian – Quiptic crossword No 971 – Jun 24 2018
Published in The Guardian Quiptic Crossword. Tags: BATTLEAXE, BESTMAN, EMBITTERS, EQUAL, PRICETAGS, SITTERS, SWEPT, UMBRAGE.
Clues |
Answers |
Abandons wastelands |
DESERTS |
Acts following foot faults |
FLAWS |
Aiming to change European picture |
IMAGINE |
Babies, regularly entertained by Oasis rivals, weep excessively |
BLUBBER |
Bath robe hides sign of increased blood flow |
THROB |
Bird gets one drink |
MARTINI |
Brushed end of humerus and cried |
SWEPT |
Capture the sound of oceans |
SEIZE |
Cheeseparer to remove outside of stone |
SKINFLINT |
Complain I have shortened goal |
OBJECTIVE |
Defended fair on condition uncovered rides dismantled |
JUSTIFIED |
Doctor and mother with part in performance |
RIGMAROLE |
Dubious recycled plastic covering church |
SCEPTICAL |
Expose falsehood Romeo gives one separate from the pack |
OUTLIER |
Frame alien in fraud |
SETTING |
Joins golf course |
LINKS |
Clues |
Answers |
Kill former boyfriend with bit of envenomed sweet |
EXECUTE |
More clamorous about one small charged particle returning |
NOISIER |
Offence shadow government engendered initially |
UMBRAGE |
One giving speech unsurpassed on island |
BESTMAN |
Out of the running at this time and place |
NOWHERE |
Peer squeals endlessly, when excited |
EQUAL |
Pocket found in short jeans, perhaps |
TROUSER |
Praise Britain? Not so much |
BLESS |
Serious attention given to bird’s place |
EARNEST |
Sex with tenor among red hot ashes causes upsets |
EMBITTERS |
Spin doctor cagiest about ways to display costs |
PRICETAGS |
Stare at black line somewhere on face |
EYEBROW |
Starting to transform ceremony that’s overused |
TRITE |
Struggle to get rid of dragon |
BATTLEAXE |
Throw drug to incompetent fool |
TOSSPOT |
Topless artistes gyrating for people in chairs |
SITTERS |