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 |