The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27091
Clues | Answers |
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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 |
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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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