| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27175 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| After exercise, rings cook about game for children | PEEKABOO |
| Bone up primarily on article supporting London’s banks | ULNA |
| Claim member pitched into porter, say | ALLEGE |
| Delicate priest’s left up displaying nimbleness | AGILE |
| Depart at speed following bishop’s abrupt dismissal | brush-off |
| First of Iraqi kings locked up by crazy old emperor | MIKADO |
| Inferior liquor husband loves __ cold and hot | HOOCH |
| Isolation unsettling Spenser at sea | separateness |
| Leap dancer made at last before talk with hospital department | ENTRECHAT |
| Left to reduce size of one’s protective grating | PORTCULLIS |
| Male animal enterprising Americans may make fast? | BUCK |
| One who lacks experience in quality roofing | TYRO |
| Pearl’s mother, a credit in the Sunderland area? | NACRE |
| Phoney European hotel with appeal for Irish leader | ERSATZ |
| Possible hack’s garden implement, a token of good luck | HORSESHOE |
| Ragged crowd, they say, digesting poster over pub counter? | THREADBARE |
| Reasonable, in a word, to do a runner | leg it |
| Result of boring climb amusing to Spooner? | drillhole |
| Save pounds ultimately, meeting accountant over wine | BARSAC |
| Search valley, missing centre | COMB |
| Sheltered girl appearing in court before duke | CLOISTERED |
| Soldier caught in narrow passage, held up by sailor | LANCEJACK |
| Starchy doctor’s alter ego with notes on pungent gas | FORMALDEHYDE |
| Study lines on creative work from East? That’s awkward | CONTRARY |
| Trivial piece rejected by Ted Heath, for one? | NUGATORY |
| Vehicle for men only on green next to a church | STAGECOACH |
| Wide boy’s lookalike, one distributing diamonds etc? | double-dealer |
| Wise men’s true art excited law administrators | magistrature |
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