The Telegraph – CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,938 – January 3 2019
Published in The Telegraph Cryptic Crossword. Tags: BLANKS, DISCOURAGEMENT, PEARLSOFWISDOM, US.
| Clues | Answers |
| Admit being unsettled with US venue | STADIUM |
| Article is about a group of countries | ASIA |
| Barely one month before drink with friend | MARGINALLY |
| Circuitous flight? | SPIRALSTAIRCASE |
| Command soldiers on base to capture Russian aeroplane from the south | REGIME |
| Dejection from shoddy gear yours truly gained in cost reduction | DISCOURAGEMENT |
| Delicate material sags more easily | GOSSAMER |
| Everyone needs help answering question: are Douglas et al on mainland? (2,3,2,2,6) | NOMANISANISLAND |
| Frenchman with scarf on rambling around island | FRANCOIS |
| Get up when caught on object | ASCEND |
| Join footballers setting up equipment for goals | FASTEN |
| Lying low after Charlie gets rebuke | CHIDING |
| Male in one card game showing restlessness | IMPATIENCE |
| New article, about two pages on European mercantile vessel | TEACLIPPER |
| Not totally pristine, current car | MINI |
| Old flame, rich model | EXAMPLE |
| Over European capital, note Japanese craft | ORIGAMI |
| Personnel involved in opening of sea urchins and crustaceans | SHRIMPS |
| Poet’s old verse on papers | OVID |
| Roll in bistro’s terrible | ROSTER |
| Second rat reported and more in order | STRAIGHTER |
| Strongman Capes, perhaps, smothers head of torch that’s alight | GETOFF |
| Suffered setback regarding drink and speed regularly taken | RELAPSED |
| Take out tie | DRAW |
| Take up gamble in one choice of roulette bet for important game | DECIDER |
| That’s spoken greeting head | HIGHNESS |
| Vacancies: fifty in financial institutions | BLANKS |
| Words fail me, soap not a broadcast giving insightful advice | PEARLSOFWISDOM |