| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27143 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| “Cast in Chains” __ song by The Wretches | lay by the heels |
| Acquire small area for training bats? | NETS |
| Big loud unit relocated in separate housing | OUTBUILDING |
| Carriage departed before time during endless floods, perhaps | WAGONETTE |
| Censure over card game | NAP |
| Champion drink, beer | SUPPORTER |
| Complain luxury boat is unfinished, cutting beauty | BELLYACHE |
| Conceding Yankee playing cricket has no following | YIELDING |
| Depart this earth __ left to disappear as soon as possible | from the word go |
| Difficulty of a year that never was | ADO |
| Ecosystem merits having this wheat planted in it | EMMER |
| Endlessly carp? Coming round in the end | FINIS |
| Fear ferret I introduced to father | PHOBIA |
| Fungus certainly turns up after vase is removed | YEAST |
| Hotels mounted very intense type of water sport | hydrospeed |
| Hurry up __ seems diaper is needed here | look snappy |
| I reuse film running in mixer | EMULSIFIER |
| Keen to eat old duck | AVOID |
| Like an old civilisation rains, say, destroyed | ASSYRIAN |
| Mostly ancient member of a noble line | EARL |
| One enters level two | PAIR |
| Outline provided by a stupid judge | ADUMBRATE |
| Pedestrian in public location | COMMONPLACE |
| Playwright that’s taken round for a staged production | SHOW |
| Run home to look up family line | keep house |
| Slow and dignified film, but not indispensible | LARGO |
| Some island seized by Henry I | HAITI |
| Son gets rather mad covered in acne | SPOTTY |
| Wealthier gambler not going into work | better off |
| What keeps nurse going, perhaps German convenience food | fish finger |
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