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 |
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