| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27147 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| Aim to preserve a set of books in cabin | SHANTY |
| Article, coloured on the outside with a stain | TAINTED |
| Chief’s tucked into eggs and lettuce | ROMAINE |
| Clued-up company worker is about to celebrate retiring | COGNISANT |
| Cook, enthusiast for sweet American cake | DONUT |
| Element of humility not unknown after thrashing | LITHIUM |
| Fiddle about, in need of passion | CHEAT |
| Game backed by man of nonsense, not a leader | RULER |
| Grand hospital department needing engineers in situation where things fall apart | EPICENTRE |
| Greek statesman has page and two men following | PERICLES |
| Halt, stopping short, with awful rain in sheets | LAMINAR |
| Hobo needs a large drink | BUMPER |
| Journalist, having travelled in, is worn out | ERODED |
| Keen on including composer’s last piece of music | INTRO |
| Male at party entertained by individual performing live | ONSTAGE |
| Most stylish sixties film? There’s something wet about it | SLEEKEST |
| NI party holds bizarre rally | drum up |
| Note about film actors | PLAYERS |
| Notice one in angry discourse exuding heat? | RADIANT |
| Old revolutionary caught by trick, a financial problem | trade gap |
| Pest upset Parliament, probing charity | APHID |
| Phony presence felt as deception | false pretences |
| Reading petition, ranter becomes unsettled | INTERPRETATION |
| Remain close when protecting old group hiding away | CLOSETING |
| Sleepy type beginning to moan when instruction to wake up comes round | DORMOUSE |
| Spray water on a book | HOSEA |
| Supply of wine drunk by long-term professional soldier | CARBINEER |
| Support Wolves? This might be checked at entrance to ground | BACKPACK |
| Tycoon featured in publication, ‘name’ getting worried | MAGNATE |
| Woman shows anger about nothing __ she’s one of these? | viragoes |
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