The Telegraph – CRYPTIC CROSSWORD NO: 29,047 – May 10 2019
Published in The Telegraph Cryptic Crossword. Tags: PAPAWS, REDISTRIBUTED, SUTRA, TANGENTS.
| Clues | Answers |
| A hundred and ten gathered round capital’s highest point | CLIMAX |
| African is keen, having surrendered heart to Irish songstress | KENYAN |
| After beginning, was first to be frightened | STARTLED |
| Any number will wear long garment in this island country | TONGA |
| Attempt to get everyone to eat onion | SHALLOT |
| Authority allows funny man to join African party in church | CLEARANCE |
| Buddhist literature giving us art that’s extraordinary | SUTRA |
| Builders perhaps against having particular vehicles | CONTRACTORS |
| Forecasts from newspaper folk, with time being limited | PRESAGES |
| Give chaps solarium treatment for lines? | TANGENTS |
| Give new status to head of research — agreed after reorganisation | REGRADE |
| I work on farm — wind here’s terrible | SWINEHERD |
| In hot weather we may have this warning message | LESSON |
| Instruction to players, with time of abstinence over | LENTO |
| Jack hopes somehow to become a different man | JOSEPH |
| Loses hope, as some French groups of minimal size | DESPAIRS |
| Men dress and end up looking silly for poet | EDMUNDSPENSER |
| Merry little woman nearby left abandoned | JOCOSE |
| Most clever male beasts about to face ordeal | SMARTEST |
| Nerve centre workers needing person of courage | GANGLION |
| One’s ‘not standing’ for this! | SEDENTARY |
| Pervasive quality conveyed by Celia, romantically | AROMA |
| Place with sect dancing — it’s worth seeing | SPECTACLE |
| Quiet hard worker given order, a shadow of his former self? | PHANTOM |
| Row? Mark has hesitation to join in | TERRACE |
| Socialist is given praise — lauded finally for showing what he wants wealth to be? | REDISTRIBUTED |
| The old man clumsily handles fruit | PAPAWS |
| Wild partygoers hiding in piece of furniture that can be covered | TRAVERSABLE |