The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27091
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Accumulator having netted foreign cash for retirement, one stroking cat? | money-grubber |
| Bash mouse with every bit of the blooming thing! | WALLFLOWER |
| Cork has to plug bottles | STOP |
| Current circling lake in wavy line | TILDE |
| Cute river, bottom dredged? | TWEE |
| Discussion on bread overheard that sounds so gentle | pitter-patter |
| Do in? | house party |
| Drive off in public — go too far? | OVERSHOOT |
| During exercise, parent called to order earlier | PREARRANGE |
| Edited parchment most faded, wicked things in it | PALIMPSEST |
| European supporter | POLE |
| Flipping bad, potentially shocking? | LIVE |
| Gunk initially mopped up by dry cloth | SERGE |
| Heading for slammer, best medicine they say for killing | SLAUGHTER |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Held inside, Irish town’s brief event | PENTATHLON |
| Infernal blighter, I’m a notorious con | THIMBLERIG |
| It’s certain their guns will go off | sure thing |
| Last Oscar given to Titanic | OMEGA |
| Might such vulgar humour be panned? | LAVATORIAL |
| Payment for transgression, OK | FINE |
| Pull someone across the Pond | YANK |
| Red Rum’s first, in short | TROT |
| Register part to be read out? | ROLL |
| Streakers up in rest home wore pants | meteor shower |
| Suddenly able to paint with only two primary colours? | out of the blue |
| Tubes in good shape after surgery, having removed five hundred and one | OESOPHAGI |
| Very energetic rogue, George IV’s deputy, perhaps? | viceregent |
| With river gone, river mammals back in conflict | set-to |
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