The Telegraph – CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 28,985 – February 27 2019
Published in The Telegraph Cryptic Crossword. Tags: BARBITURATE, China, Spain, WASH.
Clues | Answers |
A seabird seen in advertisement for a lift | PATERNOSTER |
Come round to describe museum’s material | RELEVANT |
Contemplate missing first of these once will be moderate | MEDIATE |
Drug counter snapped on universal charge | BARBITURATE |
Equity is one such idea on turn, disturbingly | TRADEUNION |
Floating leaf left daily upset about pressure | LILYPAD |
Freezing from anaesthetic in general? | ICING |
Fruit that’s no good to be eaten by Chinese leader | MANGO |
German trader’s oft repeated stock phrase? | MANTRA |
Irritating new air base must secure victory | ABRASIVE |
Letters seeing job secure? | POSTBAG |
Manipulate American capital in Europe | RIGA |
Orderly approach needing time for leader of remainers | NEAT |
Pays off one pound during evening shifts | LIQUIDATES |
Pittance made from comic strip | PEANUTS |
Powerful and dynamic, he got China worried | HIGHOCTANE |
Provide cover for quiet house in province | UPHOLSTER |
Reshuffled cabinet’s URL is difficult to understand | INSCRUTABLE |
Run in rain | PELT |
Shortness of supply of organised trips, say | SPARSITY |
Spain alerted to change after last month and slowed down | Decelerated |
Speak at length about right to develop | SPROUT |
Stumps politician taken in by endless nonsense | TRAMPS |
Thing of beauty initially on meeting | OBSESSION |
Unpopular international in obvious hospital case | OUTPATIENT |
Uses dispatches to seize power | SPENDS |
Victory — before Germany just beat European airline | WINDPIPE |
Who mostly takes in a son’s laundry? | WASH |