The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 26995 March 26 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ABANDON, AROUSAL, Crunchy Graham Oh, Crunchy Nut Oh, DISCOMFIT, Honey Graham Oh, Honey Nut Oh, VERLAINE.
The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 26995
| Clues |
Answers |
| Abroad, one loved touring northern plain |
UNADORNED |
| After time, about to be knocking on creature’s home |
BIRDCAGE |
| Beginning to miss revelry and excitement |
AROUSAL |
| Catty cardinal supporting Pope |
LEONINE |
| Clean backless dress for theatre |
SCRUB |
| Cold? The opposite wasn’t true |
CHEATED |
| Demand to settle firm in industrial town |
DUNSTABLE |
| Drinks stout |
ROUND |
| French writer penning note on one contemporary of his |
VERLAINE |
| Glossy magazines, say, engage old area of UK |
glamorganshire |
| He’ll deal with better writer, maybe |
BOOKMAKER |
| Hum overture from Offenbach without jollity |
ODOUR |
| Invalid soldier grabs one woman without issue |
NULLIPARA |
| Kid’s food and drink money accepted by European |
gingerbread man |
| Land in US city prison the wrong way |
NEPAL |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Makes elementary changes to current verses about lives |
iodises |
| Manage to snaffle last of tiramisu for dessert |
COUPE |
| Mess kit’s a pain for citizen of Commonwealth |
PAKISTANI |
| Money to get missile through borders in embargo |
ESCUDO |
| One roughly breaks marble bust in two houses perhaps |
BICAMERAL |
| Part of army punished for discriminating |
REFINED |
| Part of flower’s trimmed, as in a tangle |
MIDSTREAM |
| Persian’s not half prescient |
FARSI |
| Polish friend back filled with a tattoo |
rub-a-dub |
| Put off party? Both sexes appeal |
DISCOMFIT |
| Radio show could be playing song |
on air |
| Songwriter hasn’t the heart to be a musician |
LYRIST |
| Tots turned away to get some merchandising |
spin-off |
| Traveller of sound mind in Glasgow? |
NOMAD |
| Turned up collar, punching a teacher in scrap |
ABANDON |