The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27068 June 19 2018

The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27068

Clues	Answers
A smirk so naughty when receiving good present with a hug?	KISSOGRAM
Agent always intended to avoid a financial transaction favouring customer	REPAYMENT
Amusing turn daughter’s put on	DROLL
Arrangement that does for NI patriot?	PARTITION
Bad-tempered type, initially getting behind	GRUMP
Celebrity died catching wild animal, right?	STARBOARD
Coat officer gashes when falling over	STUCCO
Drink to be knocked back in autumn? It’s a sporting option	free ball
Elaborate accommodation for king, one in exile?	EXPATRIATE
Female shows spite rejecting male	ALICE
Football, ultimately maybe a German game?	LOTTO
Girl’s hair the result of a bad hair day?	DISTRESS
Having secured facility on smartphone, you had talked freely	YAPPED
Hesitation to get into meditation when lectures should be attended?	TERM
Joint in handle, one coming loose	WELD
Lake in garden transformed foreign city once	LENINGRAD

Clues	Answers
Little fellow, the German who takes a quick break?	WEEKENDER
Loud murderer with yen for ostentation	FRIPPERY
Mark brought by corporal punishment? Son avoids that	TICK
Missile not quite right for old British soldier	buller
One coming off drugs, having ‘a bit of a chest’	withdrawer
One of two books, very serious, written by the French	CHRONICLES
Piano learner has found out about organ	SPLEEN
Quiet town, one I hesitate to say that’s dangerously unstable	PLUTONIUM
Raving person has love for a man in broadcast message	ROGER
Respect and acknowledge reduced allowance	ADMIRATION
See, previously, army of abstainers taking alcohol	SARUM
Sound of Aussie beast encountered in small enclosed space	ROOMETTE
Swing that sees weak Right being ousted by Left	FLAIL
Tree making church gloomy, almost	CEDAR
What’s authentic about upcoming broadcast related to insurance business	ACTUARIAL
Wrong to swallow hard bone	SHIN