| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27199 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| Admission of espionage is fix | IMPLANT |
| Beauty-lover worried about short woman | AESTHETE |
| Called into action and driven mad | DERANGED |
| Cherished peregrination in P&O cruise | PRECIOUS |
| Compress neatly, if perversely, to put limits on freedom | cramp ones style |
| Corrupt banker is Busby | BEARSKIN |
| Decaying or bad meat hunk | DREAMBOAT |
| Drug agent is above suspicion in plant | NARCISSUS |
| Entertainer among travellers in a train | SINATRA |
| Entertaining person news boss booked | CARDED |
| Flyer sees V1 in two areas approaching hill | AVIATOR |
| Folding stuff and cheque backing mate in France | ORIGAMI |
| Gym in Parisian street generates money | RUPEE |
| Heavy fabric just the thing to pack uniform | SAMITE |
| Hopes when religious right embraces void | ASPIRES |
| Instrument to stamp fine material | ORGANDIE |
| Live on periphery? | RESIDE |
| Lumumba say in power over a very short time | PATRICE |
| Management goes for temporary patching up | running repairs |
| Model wants time with single mother put to work | OPTIMUM |
| One gets over wearing stupid expression | IDIOM |
| Pipe radius used in Shard | CHIRP |
| Returned books are an inspiration | ERATO |
| Ruler in mood beheaded soldiers | EMPEROR |
| Scarlet grabs mine, but it’s handed back | RESTORED |
| Seat wrecked by sailors towards the rear | ASTERN |
| Sensible to retain hospital doctor in council | SANHEDRIN |
| Standard credit to extend Jamaican homes | YARDSTICK |
| Thinker was his god at Russell’s instigation | RODIN |
| US lawyer, target for McCarthy, took risks | DARED |
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