The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27171 October 17 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ALIVENESS, DEMIMONDE, PUNJABI, US.
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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 |