The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27212 December 4 2018
Published in The Times Cryptic Crossword. Tags: DEBUT, Los Angeles, TASMANIAN, YERBA.
| The Times – Cryptic – Times Cryptic No 27212 | |
| Clues | Answers |
| A device that stops one backing horse | ARAB |
| Aussie Brown entertains primarily sexual obsession | TASMANIAN |
| Author’s novel somehow flat | thomas wolfe |
| Complain unnecessarily after fairy creates wall of fruit | PERICARP |
| Dad and bad-tempered giant endlessly go the rounds | PATROL |
| Fine fabric that one may cut in strips? | LAWN |
| Fish taken to harbour provides work | bleak house |
| Girl in crouch finally loading pistol | HEATHER |
| Given to naive thoughts, remain in seedy resort | starry-eyed |
| Ham producer has son in for a feed | NOSH |
| Horse must pass round wide tree | ROWAN |
| Humble frump, relinquishing booze, lectures drunk | RESPECTFUL |
| Layman almost established around Los Angeles | SECULAR |
| Locks up quartet missing feminine charm | ENAMOUR |
| Mine is found in unlocked shed | open-cast |
| Notes the writer meeting doctor at golf club | MEMORANDA |
| Nothing like these served in traditional pizzeria? | square meals |
| Passports source crippled in dispute | at cross purposes |
| Perhaps marinade is on offer at commercial centre | TENDERISER |
| Poor little Bobby? | not much cop |
| Restrict flow in stretch of pipe | STEM |
| Second rescue boat finds island | SARK |
| Soldiers permitted to enter gym that’s full | REPLETE |
| Start university getting into arrears | DEBUT |
| Test sanctimonious man God spared | PILOT |
| They waken us when Liberal member enters | ALARMS |
| This strange exam covers one century of yore | HISTORICAL |
| Yankee graduate covering her topless mate | YERBA |
| Young lover, one relieved to find Leda’s assailant | SWAN |