The Telegraph – CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,981 – February 22 2019
Published in The Telegraph Cryptic Crossword. Tags: GORED, MARINER, REINSTALL, Rome.
| Clues | Answers |
| Adrian is travelling around island | SARDINIA |
| Archangel playing a harp well, having lost wings! | RAPHAEL |
| Bananas aren’t nice — you want this fruit | NECTARINE |
| Become embarrassed like an unfortunate matador? | GORED |
| Building very warm reduced energy bill finally | HOTEL |
| Cash pool I demolish ultimately on a spree? | SHOPAHOLIC |
| Cleric, one about to divide church, creating split | CREVICE |
| Collapse of accommodation when river swamps it | DEFLATE |
| Copper and army officer in unorthodox organisation | CULT |
| Crime involving artist being magnanimous | LIBERAL |
| Financial dealer needing pounds has krona converted | LOANSHARK |
| Group of animals went under water crossing river | DROVE |
| Hebrew character wants drink with a measure of acidity | ALEPH |
| Hospital with more wind coming through becomes more frightening | HAIRIER |
| Island country cheerlessly reorganised with king deposed | SEYCHELLES |
| Loud and disorderly sinner isn’t this | FLAWLESS |
| Material used with hesitation by politician in performance | REPERTORY |
| Noise of laughter drowning performer’s last bit | CRACKLE |
| Page about walk — the first thing one reads? | PREAMBLE |
| Piece of wood used on Indians primarily as instrument of punishment | LATHI |
| Place of rest — was first to admit something wrong, being afflicted | BEDEVILLED |
| Priest is out to stop make-believe | PRETEND |
| Put back in control on business counter | REINSTALL |
| Sailor in violent rain in French sea | MARINER |
| Scent — first thing noticed in the bar | TRAIL |
| Seen in Perth, an English baron once | THANE |
| Space traveller who headed a religious 29 | MOON |
| Struggling Tommy or Gen. or FM? | MONTGOMERY |
| Teams without leader getting day in Rome | IDES |
| That woman and daughter in crowd | HERD |
| The thing about bargain is coming from wishful thinker | IDEALIST |
| Very big vehicle as an academy’s prize | OSCAR |