The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27009
Clues | Answers |
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A detective story, the ultimate gift for cellist? | his last bow |
A Sikh has one billion fish | BANGLE |
Apparently that of Helen being a thousand ships? | face value |
Be very eager to employ Liberal, one that’s flexible | PLIANT |
Break up in manifest cold | SHIVER |
Cherries, see, covered in fungi | MORELLOS |
Concerned with opening blade, I trust | RELIANCE |
Cut part of bulb | CLOVE |
Dither, as everyone is caught up in active moving | VACILLATE |
Enthusiasm of boxer finally ready to mate? | HEART |
Fall asleep in wagon, very voyeuristic viewing | car-crash tv |
Give woodwork final smoothing, receiving time and a half | stand-off |
Head from court case over to business centre | RIALTO |
In fight, large Italian twisting blade | STILETTO |
In public he rubbished safe sort of investment | blue-chip |
Clues | Answers |
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Kind of an Einstein? Not I | GENUS |
Magistrate seizes duke in quick move | DODGE |
Not happy to travel regularly on such rubber? | cross-ply |
Old guard losing heart a total failure | TURKEY |
Pipe suddenly lowered for sounding | DUCT |
Pressure on buzzer creates alert | BEEP |
Put off woman and survive without one | SHELVE |
Religion, but no Mass, for Scots girl | ISLA |
Rock, overturning large table across front of room | GIBRALTAR |
Some beef? Wrong to eat horse | SHIN |
Son indifferent about husband, I emphasise in my case, as one dealing with children | SCHOOLMISTRESSY |
Struggling actor hems old garment | STOMACHER |
To wed money, they say, can be a bloomer | MARIGOLD |
Warning notice avoids funny lines | ADVISORY |
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