The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27059 June 8 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: BIER, DOVE, EXTIRPATE, GUIDANCE, Old Greek, SCARED, TOURS.
The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27059
| Clues |
Answers |
| Bird sank into water in America |
DOVE |
| Conservative leader starts to look enthusiastic in constituency |
CHEADLE |
| Creature with several legs as before walked up |
DECAPOD |
| Defenders got bad with age and didn’t move quickly enough |
dragged ones feet |
| Dogged act secures period of office now |
DETERMINED |
| Drop of liquid: you may get this in bar |
MINIM |
| First character to go under in river trips |
TOURS |
| Get rid of old lover, bore, embracing boy |
EXTIRPATE |
| Good Scottish church in which there’s a new leadership |
GUIDANCE |
| Honest attempt to make the grade after setback |
GOOD |
| I cannot be described as such |
consonantal |
| If I lose face going wrong, out comes the gobbledegook |
OFFICIALESE |
| Like a picture being restored that’s unorthodox |
off-the-wall |
| Material coming out shortly, revolutionary |
SERGE |
| Most outstanding feature on land is school |
HIGHLIGHT |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Most senior worker, I sit alongside the dealer |
eldest hand |
| Old Greek councillor in new opera housed in a holiday home |
areopagite |
| One liquid drops into another, yours truly imagines |
METHINKS |
| Register for work |
TILL |
| Room in vehicle lined with length of material? |
CELLAR |
| Roughed-up motorway said to need engineers brought in |
MISTREATED |
| Scoundrel to attest against old American, without much substance |
CADAVEROUS |
| Sister admits nothing? That could be proper |
NOUN |
| Soldier’s contribution to newspaper article? |
PARA |
| Son, bothered and panicky |
SCARED |
| Stand at funeral? It’s very cold, not dry |
BIER |
| Stars at leaving speech |
ORION |
| Wicked no end, group of students hanging round one capital city |
VILNIUS |
| Wise man wrapping old set of holy books in something artistic |
MONTAGE |