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 |
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