The Telegraph – Cryptic – Apr 17 2018
Published in The Telegraph Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ANALYSIS, DISCOVERED, INSURANCE, RESIDENCE, SIDEWAYS, SINKS, UGLY.
Clues |
Answers |
A useless editor’s shunned |
AVOIDED |
Amount for magic elixir about right |
PROPORTION |
Approving high value of bra |
FAVOURABLE |
Charlie Brown was this stressed |
DRAWN |
Concept I adored? Not quite |
IDEA |
Concerned with a child’s explanations |
REASONS |
Conservative scoundrel embarrassed after nothing happened |
OCCURRED |
Contend with wife’s opinion |
VIEW |
Detectives caught Edward subsequent to six balls being found |
DISCOVERED |
Diamonds free in Cambridgeshire city? Not by mistake |
DELIBERATELY |
Exchange broken cast-iron oven |
CONVERSATION |
Flower girl |
VIOLET |
Fool is last to get help |
ASSIST |
Force former lover to leave state |
PRESS |
Got confused on a bidet |
OBTAINED |
Clues |
Answers |
Half-heartedly shout downstairs |
BELOW |
Hammered nails, say, getting criticism |
ANALYSIS |
Held in wind — ruder sound |
SURROUNDED |
King, consumed by immoral acts, collapses |
SINKS |
Leaders of your little gang unfortunately turning nasty |
UGLY |
Lieutenant in complete retreat |
SHELTER |
Passionate, temperamental woman’s upset |
AVID |
Protection money? |
INSURANCE |
Resilience after 51 goes and daughter enters home |
RESIDENCE |
Small fish approaches thus crab moves |
SIDEWAYS |
Solution from politicians we rejected |
ANSWER |
Specified a pudding, initially? Tart |
APPOINTED |
Stand for the Queen, lifting gift |
REPRESENT |
They possess things boy wanted — rest oddly ignored |
OWNERS |
Unusual seaside problem |
DISEASE |