The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 26984 March 13 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: APSE, EUCALYPT, FRIPPERY, YOGHURT.
The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 26984
| Clues |
Answers |
| Agent crossing railway line nimbly |
SPRYLY |
| Be perfectly aware what’s short of water, do we hear? |
know full well |
| Bovid mammal bound to be tied to stake |
ANTELOPE |
| Characters entering for a Latin exam |
ORAL |
| Church feature identified in downloads, so to speak |
APSE |
| Curious thing about soft drink at bedtime |
NIGHTCAP |
| English knight competed, being grudgingly admired |
ENVIED |
| Graduate at Sorbonne who at first supported French underground |
MAQUIS |
| Inferior to some quarters in spa city |
BENEATH |
| Make an impression, and so on, with Head of History |
ETCH |
| Not the condition of drunkard unknown to eat cheese? |
SOBRIETY |
| Old lady sheltering a convict in Continental resort |
MALAGA |
| One tearing into extremely fruity trifles? |
FRIPPERY |
| One who employs asses regularly in ancient city |
USER |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Our new envoy foolishly crosses king — anything could happen! |
you never know |
| Protestant, before initially singing some bits, rushed to invite one in |
PRESBYTERIAN |
| Provide new community for theatre the Spanish writer set up |
REPEOPLE |
| Reformed persons finally make comeback |
RESPONSE |
| Sloth unknown in East, captured by young woman |
LAZINESS |
| Supervised old archdeacon, suppressing language |
OVERSEEN |
| Swaggering adventurer’s sister about to clean clasp |
SWASHBUCKLER |
| This writer’s books about store, due out soon |
IMMINENT |
| Time a girl embraces popular sovereign’s wife |
TSARINA |
| Turn up with husband in tent, supplying healthy food |
YOGHURT |
| Unusually apt clue covering Yankee oil producer |
EUCALYPT |
| Uproar when brown bear traps leaders of large youth hostel |
BALLYHOO |
| Words maybe associated with some fine gauzy fabric |
TIFFANY |
| Work with men at old port |
ORATORIO |