| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27171 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| … only briefly, note | SOL |
| A couple of girls fussing | FINICKY |
| Asian joke, one involving judge and sailor | PUNJABI |
| Bloke outside hotel, source of good news brought to Aix? | GHENT |
| Chapter in revolutionary story bringing conspicuous success | ECLAT |
| Dash to get form of identification set up | NIP |
| Displaying deficiency in character-forming action? | ILLEGIBLE |
| Fanciful act overturned, protecting particular chap thus | WHIMSICAL |
| Figure a small number badger without respite? | NONAGON |
| His curate blunders initially in consecration of sacred elements | EUCHARISTIC |
| Ironic study dismissed by poet and dramatist | DRY |
| Juice quietly taken down in Bath, for example? | SAP |
| Like priests in Times unusually backing animal shelter… | MINISTERIAL |
| Liliaceous plants taken by yellowish-brown grazers | BUFFALOES |
| Live in shelter closest to hand | NEAREST |
| Muslim star going over part of UK | SUNNI |
| Notes male attorney has penned backing City | MEMORANDA |
| One drinking beer half-heartedly with doctors in islands | IMBIBER |
| Position offered by sardonic headmaster | NICHE |
| Possibly eyes Native Americans on new church feature | organ screen |
| Second man splashing out rupees for cooling drink | SHERBET |
| Senior officer in boat starts to lecture youth sharply | PUNGENTLY |
| Source of strength identified by wife attending function | SINEW |
| Stay smeared with viscid substance | TARRY |
| Supervising healthy exercise | RUNNING |
| This writer’s against changing into a wit | IMAGINATION |
| Token love-bird found in northern lake | NOMINAL |
| US politician working in dome for shady group | DEMIMONDE |
| Verbally unproductive? Lord! | BARON |
| Vitality not recorded in a number of quarters | ALIVENESS |
| What authors do to listeners? Absolutely | RIGHT |
| What Parker displays, disturbed by current din? | NOISINESS |
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