The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27055 June 4 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: AILERON, DRUNKER, EQUINOX, LIDO, LUXURIATE, SQUID, Ulan Bator, UNNERVE.
The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27055
| Clues |
Answers |
| Acted as a substitute silk |
SATIN |
| Assembly obstructs constructive elements |
building blocks |
| Banal tour going around capital city |
Ulan Bator |
| Banned volunteers voice displeasure |
TABOO |
| Began tango entering in position with dandy boy |
Instituted |
| Brown, or yellowish-brown with a red initially added in |
CARAMEL |
| Change the last word Democrat intended in speech |
AMENDMENT |
| Disconcert artilleryman? Not good and very unsafe, ultimately |
UNNERVE |
| Dismiss Ibsen character as a radical |
FIREBRAND |
| Drop in current is in prospect with amps lost |
VISIT |
| Elite troops annoyed odd characters in army |
a-team |
| Forest primate getting energy from small parrots |
LORIS |
| Free link somehow joins net via URL |
universal joint |
| Frequently trailing second note in set of bells is tone down |
soft-pedal |
| Happy if place does not appear relaxed |
EASED |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Heater pipe filled with gauze regularly losing fragments |
BRAZIER |
| Hostility as I film bodyguard |
ICINESS |
| Investigator of complaints from mum bad son shot |
OMBUDSMAN |
| Key legislation’s defect |
FLAW |
| More wasted days by athlete half-heartedly covering kilometres |
DRUNKER |
| One filling small cavities over time? |
DENTIST |
| Revel in true AI working after a measure of illumination |
LUXURIATE |
| Seafood’s twenty-one shillings? |
SQUID |
| Tape recorder, possibly for court official |
line judge |
| Topping sequin socks from America for a special date |
EQUINOX |
| Tries to get picked up by sailors. This could get joint wrecked |
THUMBSCREW |
| Trouble herons uncovered in flight control |
AILERON |
| Troublesome insect perhaps over sauce |
PESTO |
| What’s nutritious with the marge spread? |
wheat germ |
| Where one sees bathing cap, old |
LIDO |