The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 26993
Clues | Answers |
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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 |
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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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