The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27017
Clues | Answers |
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A special moment in which one’s collected fossil | AMMONITE |
A star drinking nothing, overturning fizzy water | APOLLINARIS |
An element of singular dislike | SODIUM |
Bird in science unit | EMU |
Block Yankee, creating stir | CHOKEY |
Boy climbing tree with minimal energy | EMILE |
Coming soon as a sale item? | in store |
Conservative in group, heretical and bigoted | SECTARIAN |
Dish of fish eggs: it’s served up | ROESTI |
European seriously drunk in bar | BYELORUSSIAN |
Famous Argentinian tucked into cooked pie and sausage | PEPERONI |
Female home full of love attended by stars who bring good news? | MISSIONARIES |
Gladstone’s epithet’s recalled in a haze | SMOG |
Group entering train to get drier | tea cloth |
Clues | Answers |
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Haggard female beset by fairies passes away | PERISHES |
Hospital in Somerset redone as accommodation for the elderly | rest homes |
More than one bloodsucker strikes to secure victim | LAMPREYS |
Naval officer’s clique drink | POSSET |
Not terribly keen about final decision-maker? Precisely! | on the dot |
Order set up to imprison a Communist leader | MAO |
Provider of printed notes for performers | sheet music |
River that’s more beautiful between banks? | AIRE |
River, Charlie? You and I will catch that fish | WRASSE |
See sort that could turn out murderer in mythology | ORESTES |
Seriously performing only, I warble about heartless fellow | solemnising |
Small cat or dog, the one giving chase | PETIT |
Thus America carrying burden becomes dozy | slumberous |
Umpire, old, with room for improvement | REFORM |
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