The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27029 May 4 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ABUNDANCE, APISH, COCKSURE, DISSENT, ILIAC, RHUBARB, TERCET.
The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27029
Clues |
Answers |
A contemptuous exclamation — silly! |
APISH |
Accountant who might check one’s pulse? |
bean counter |
Confident male squirmed oddly |
COCKSURE |
Container to serve tea; I’ll be after beginning to read leaves |
POTPOURRI |
Distressed dept. sec. having run in with staff |
SCEPTRED |
Expose chap entering sprint moving right to the end |
UNCOVER |
Fool picks up insult implying inability to do so? |
cloth-ears |
Get back in swing, ticker turning over regularly |
re-elect |
Independent solicitor’s first to prosecute children |
ISSUE |
Lag repeatedly to raise time he’s held |
bring up the rear |
Live stream business news |
current affairs |
Lot controlling sails etc for ship |
FRIGATE |
Much like a cakewalk, but smaller and quicker? |
ABUNDANCE |
Not in formal dress in Balmoral, perhaps, queen is not working |
out of kilter |
Note to include zero as digit |
TOE |
Clues |
Answers |
Police officers transferred for challenge to orthodoxy |
DISSENT |
Proposed form of extreme devolution rejected after losing a vote |
MOVED |
Purging heretic, a habitual response |
CATHARTIC |
Regret spoken jibe, something muttered on stage |
RHUBARB |
Run out to catch a glimpse of incoming Times competition winner’s prize? |
ROSETTE |
Sell ingredients for jam? |
TRAFFIC |
Spacious, from what we hear, but cold |
RHEUMY |
Time to get to station, perhaps — detectives are being brought up to scratch |
ERADICATE |
To buck up rogue, cane ordered |
ENCOURAGE |
Top secret operations going to be sent up in a bit of rhyming verse |
TERCET |
Trojan “hippy”? |
ILIAC |
Turns to stare rudely |
ROTATES |
Unfortunate person missing point in gag |
RETCH |
Unionists boosted share |
CUT |
Yellow mineral found around western half of Chad |
OCHRE |