| The Times – Concise – Times Concise No 8900 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| Alphabet character | LETTER |
| Aromatic herb | DILL |
| Concur | AGREE |
| Cows and oxen | CATTLE |
| Dried grape | CURRANT |
| Eg, alder or birch | TREE |
| Eg, The Nutcracker | BALLET |
| Frank — Wright, architect | LLOYD |
| Gold or silver in bulk | BULLION |
| Horrify, dismay | APPAL |
| Indirect reference | ALLUSION |
| Instinctively, naturally | INNATELY |
| Inuit ice house | IGLOO |
| Mountainside stones | SCREE |
| Narrow passageway | ALLEY |
| Not active | PASSIVE |
| Rate | SPEED |
| Reel for thread | BOBBIN |
| Result of nuclear explosion | FALLOUT |
| Rice dish | RISOTTO |
| Scots town | ALLOA |
| Sentinel | LOOKOUT |
| Series of actions | PROCESS |
| Set of clothing for baby | LAYETTE |
| Sounding thinly metallic | TINNY |
| Treeless grassy plain | STEPPE |
| Turn to bone | OSSIFY |
| Valuable item | ASSET |