| The Times – Concise – Times Concise No 8897 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| (Of snow) melt | THAW |
| Animal bred for fur | MINK |
| Arthurian knight | LANCELOT |
| Beat with a whip | LASH |
| Blackthorn fruit | SLOE |
| Bring water to (crops) | IRRIGATE |
| Caviar fish | STURGEON |
| Common bird | MAGPIE |
| Crested parrot | COCKATOO |
| Fungal disease of cereals | SMUT |
| Gizmo | GADGET |
| Island of French Polynesia | TAHITI |
| Let it stand | STET |
| Malian desert city | TIMBUKTU |
| Non-noble person | COMMONER |
| One seeking, eg, status | ASPIRANT |
| One shirking work | SKIVER |
| Plant disease | BLIGHT |
| Pushed roughly | SHOVED |
| Scots lake | LOCH |
| Stallion for breeding | STUD |
| Suppress, stifle | hush up |
| Survey of those having just voted | exit poll |
| Unassuming; limited | MODEST |