The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27045 May 23 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ACRID, CONFUSED, DEFROSTED, DRUDGERY, GAUDIEST, MULE, NOCTURNE, TV.
The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27045
| Clues |
Answers |
| Boxer’s possible target, a fragile thing |
CHINA |
| Cross — something afoot? |
MULE |
| Dark scene, no shape in church |
NOCTURNE |
| Dickensian bound by tedious slog |
DRUDGERY |
| Filling in action, old TV reporter melted |
DEFROSTED |
| Free on account, bitter |
ACRID |
| Great seeing first of soldiers in tank |
VAST |
| Ground net |
LAND |
| Honest chairman’s elevated position? |
above board |
| In a mess, party formed a coalition |
CONFUSED |
| Insect, shell-like, next to carpet |
EARWIG |
| Insensitive bully wrote for deputy |
number two |
| Keen little twerp’s back |
WEEP |
| Killed the wrong way, certainly casually? |
deffo |
| Letters confiscated by provost yesterday — sore point? |
STYE |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Moor in ageless US city |
ANCHOR |
| Norse god a bit rubbish |
BALDERDASH |
| Nude friars dancing for charity event |
fund-raiser |
| Oil referee put out? |
whistlers mother |
| Old sailor aged, so wrinkly |
sea dog |
| Opener dropped on one, relieved initially |
DOOR |
| Potential killer in family into mob violence |
rifle shot |
| Renowned — as is musical work? |
NOTED |
| Rescuer put cat on lithium |
LIFELINE |
| Something sending elderly relative to sleep? Answer where nothing’s spoken |
grand opera |
| Spanish architect set out to be most vulgar |
GAUDIEST |
| Speaking too soon, American entering incorrect format, Sod’s law! |
famous last words |
| Stoop to collect small drawing |
DESIGN |
| Subjects right about English beauty |
LIEGEMEN |
| Vessel covered in omelette, perhaps, not perfectly upright? |
bow-legged |