The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27128 August 28 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ABERDEEN, CHANCEL, EXCORIATE, LENIENT, SEAWALL, TANTRUM, TENNIEL, TV.
| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27128 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| Calming English gang girl that is not without heart | EMOLLIENT |
| Charge bishop, one about to board hired car | TAXICAB |
| City fathers ultimately suspend drunk by word of mouth | SHANGHAI |
| Cooler condition | NICK |
| Discharge right hand man originally supporting group of nations | RHEUM |
| Dog beginning to bark at high fence | BOXER |
| Express view about gangster being shot? | OPALINE |
| Flare-up brought about by so much French spirit? | TANTRUM |
| Illustrator’s profile finally framed by retired singer | TENNIEL |
| Left port, carrying heavy cargo | LADEN |
| Message following drivers over crossroads | CARFAX |
| More confident old men Bede converted | EMBOLDENED |
| No male friend accepts resistance, as a rule | NORMALLY |
| Old college tutor’s initial robbery, one believes | POLYTHEIST |
| Part of glacier one notes during visit | ice-fall |
| Plant soundly identified by groups of sheep or birds | PHLOX |
| Plant woman found around ridge of land | MACHINERY |
| Play featuring singer in a duel, oddly | LATITUDE |
| Poet’s current way to receive bearers of gifts | IMAGIST |
| Possessing nothing, difficult to stockpile! | HOARD |
| Quick-witted character on the staff | SHARP |
| Reportedly track and creep up on wading bird | STORK |
| Risk associated with large part of church | CHANCEL |
| Rule about marine mammal crossing this coastal defence | SEAWALL |
| Satan’s chief aim, ensnaring frail innocents, primarily | arch-fiend |
| Second best way to attract attention? | SCREAM |
| Showing forbearance, as 28 could be? | LENIENT |
| Slam former partner consumed by TV soap, so to speak? | EXCORIATE |
| Source of information, perhaps: one rejected by Brecht’s collaborator | WELL |
| Take back park __ Liberal’s first intention | RECLAIM |
| Unusual beard, even for a poet somewhere in Scotland | ABERDEEN |
| Welcoming knight, Gael possibly made obeisance | KNELT |