The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27068 June 19 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ADMIRATION, FLAIL, GRUMP, PLUTONIUM, ROOMETTE, SARUM, SHIN.
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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 |