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 |