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 |