The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27139 September 10 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ABIDING, CANDLEWICK, DOWNSTREAM, ESCUTCHEON, NCO, TELLTALE, TV.
| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27139 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| A better article in French about S American mammal | ALPACA |
| Acknowledge record formerly held by English | CONCEDE |
| Bill promises to pay after new dog first becomes aggressive | PUGNACIOUS |
| Bridge players tremble receiving intelligence agency’s note | SEMIQUAVER |
| Classy naval NCO’s husband | POSH |
| Contact __ a whimsical-sounding one touring north | ACQUAINTANCE |
| Eg Brunel’s technique ultimately, never without spirit | ENGINEER |
| Enduring a heartless injunction | ABIDING |
| Help tidy up school appeal? | COEDIT |
| High-class writer with tailless dog, standing erect | UPENDING |
| Impartial peacekeepers stationed around India | UNBIASED |
| Keeping register back, risks joint state office | CHANCELLORSHIP |
| Meet round rear of Garrick for burlesque | SKIT |
| Missile Soviets introduced __ something to chew over? | SCUD |
| Noble widow’s party bet, mostly payable before game | dowager duchess |
| Not any composition left unfinished! | NONE |
| Novelist bringing Worthing’s alter ego way to the front? | STERNE |
| Officer’s servant engaging old person in row, perhaps? | BOATMAN |
| Precipitation beginning to settle at present | SNOW |
| Revealing falsehood suppressed by one of the Archers? | TELLTALE |
| Shield university kept in battered chest once | ESCUTCHEON |
| Touch down on river following try-out of plane | test flight |
| Tufted material originally clicked with Shetland, town right away | CANDLEWICK |
| TV award this writer rejected? Goodness! | EMMY |
| Weakness in a country novel the Spanish girl finally digested | achilles heel |
| With the current duke, have new master | DOWNSTREAM |
| Woman identifies with first murder victim | ISABEL |
| Yellow ducks, for example, seen around marsh | GAMBOGE |