The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 26993 March 23 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: Philip Kives.
The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 26993
| Clues |
Answers |
| Author off the booze, hiding last three bits of it |
ALCOTT |
| Cases of pastry rise: nice automation from a range |
PYRENEAN |
| Celebrity turns introducing actual generic sort |
EVERYMAN |
| Check for what kicks off uncivilised youth |
CHILD |
| Cook crumble crust for holiday visitor to Oz |
DOROTHY |
| Criminal charge overturned and conviction not completed? Sweet! |
PARFAIT |
| Crooked law’s introduction fills in the act |
ATILT |
| Dance recalled in church with similar origins |
COGNATE |
| Distil studies into solid form with a point |
CONDENSE |
| Give permission to mobile tool to do roaming |
APPROVE |
| Hill-dweller trapping deer pulled back chain |
ANKLET |
| I’m not sure Mass held by boy is what’s heard in church |
SERMON |
| Keep gasping about the man’s divine collection |
PANTHEON |
| Labour a long time to dress one glam band up |
EXERTION |
| Lack of acceptance underlies small gesture of defiance |
SNOOK |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Light coverage of US city politicians duped earliest of electors |
LAMPSHADE |
| Micronesian hero adaptable in any circumstances |
come rain or shine |
| Nancy’s from big country to the north: I must leave with composure |
ASSURED |
| Note interpolated by Flaubert, maybe concerned with taste |
GUSTATIVE |
| Old Arab king behind time with American exhibitionist |
TUSSAUD |
| Pace restlessly, crushing rustic seed |
CHICKPEA |
| Pours dry type of wine over sink |
CESSPIT |
| Powdered fruit tablets, first couple taken last, swallowed by champion |
ALLSPICE |
| Reports of shots |
PHOTOJOURNALISM |
| Roughly where mother picks up pup to get a snack |
CANAPE |
| Satie mistakenly rounds on downbeat composer |
elegiast |
| Some knitwear to suit an eccentric? |
cardy |
| Sore winner perhaps elected to be annoying |
INGRATE |
| Subgroup of oligarchy enabling predator |
HYENA |
| Trouble with old lady’s inflexible views |
DOGMA |