The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27161 October 5 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ASSISTANTS, BEJEWELLED, FRAYS, HOARD.
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Clues | Answers |
A church provides one | ACE |
A new hair preparation finds backer for production | ANGEL |
A source of roar in wild cat? | LARYNX |
Additional levy resulting from attack on fighting force | service charge |
African nomad’s regular display of genius | GNU |
Article fifty covered by Times well | ABLY |
Beyond redemption at sea | LOST |
Cold fruit flake | CHIP |
Detailed plan to protect pound is futile | IDLE |
Dog kept cutting inside pig | SHADOW |
Energy required in violent exercise | WIELD |
Fine fish scraps | FRAYS |
Fresh maid organised beer and stout | SOUBRETTE |
Great unorthodox priest’s last sermon due | TREMENDOUS |
Laboured badly crossing very wide city street | BOULEVARD |
Land taken from previous county, in part hard to manage | CUMBERSOME |
Means of measuring residue on vault | spring balance |
Metal bar obscuring other exhibits | INGOT |
Monarch once imprisoning queen upset senior investor | SHAREHOLDER |
Release detective’s service details in printed form | DISMISSAL |
Reluctantly admit Dickensian’s supporting petition | BEGRUDGE |
Required tax limit | duty-bound |
Retiring storyteller, sedate, skirting a bar to avoid accidents | GUARDRAIL |
Richly adorned Eastern believer eclipsed by lovely daughter | BEJEWELLED |
Save used tart, we’re told | HOARD |
Shall we put up with a boarding pirate? | STEAL |
Shifting end of rack, restore all detachable footwear | roller skate |
Those attending function entertained by jazzmen, bishop having left | ASSISTANTS |
Today’s journalist held out | PRESENTED |
Troops recently formed line | INFANTRY |