The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27091 July 16 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: FINE, Last Oscar, LAVATORIAL, OMEGA, PREARRANGE, TILDE, TROT, YANK.
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 |